Corporate Overview
Spectra was formed in 1993 and is an integrated company, a combination of Spectra Environmental Group, Inc. and its affiliate Spectra Engineering, Architecture and Surveying, P.C. along with the newest affiliate Spectra Subsurface Imaging Group LLC. Spectra provides comprehensive environmental, structural, and civil engineering services, as well as surveying and subsurface imaging services to clients throughout the northeast. The owners, Mr. Robert C. LaFleur and Mr. John H. Shafer, P.E., have over 50 years of experience in engineering, environmental analysis, planning, and management.
Spectra's headquarters are conveniently located in Latham, New York, near the New York State agencies and offices, such as the Department of Environmental Conservation, Thruway Authority, Department of Transportation, Office of General Services, and many other state offices. Spectra also maintains offices in Syracuse and Poughkeepsie, New York, giving us a geographic advantage across the state.
Spectra has approximately 40 employees that specialize in environmental engineering, hydrogeology, civil engineering, computer mapping, and land surveying. Our range of services include:
Infrastructure Engineering
- Airports
- Bridge/culvert design
- Bridge inspection (under-water & above-water)
- Bulkheads
- Construction inspection
- Contract administration
- Dams
- Drafting
- Drainage design
- Highway design
- Intersections
- Locally-administered federal aid project assistance
- Railroads
- Sanitary/storm sewer design
- Site/Civil design
- Slope stability analysis & design
- Stream stability and scour evaluation
- Trail design
- Traffic engineering
- Water/wastewater design
Mining Services
- Aquifer mapping and impact analysis
- Aquifer testing through pump tests
- Containment transport studies
- Drainage basin delineation
- Erosion and sediment control
- Geologic mapping
- Groundwater modeling
- Groundwater supply exploration and development
- Mine permitting
- Remedial investigation and design
- Slope stability analysis
- Stormwater permitting
- Traffic studies & access roads
- Watershed management and protection
- Wellhead protection plans
Environmental Engineering
- Air quality analysis
- Brownfield site screening, selection & assessment
- Chemical bulk storage spill prevention control and countermeasures plans
- Dredging services
- Environmental impact statements
- Environmental remediation
- Environmental site assessments (Phase I, II, and III)
- Geophysical services
- Hazardous waste services
- Hydrogeologic services
- Landfill engineering services
- Permitting
- Petroleum bulk storage tank audits, registrations, and SPCC plans
- Property transactions
- SEQRA and NEPA permitting
- Solid waste services
- SPDES permitting
- Stormwater pollution and prevention plans/MS4
- Superfund site screening, selection & assessment
- Vapor intrusion assessments
- Wetlands
Surveying & Ground Penetrating Radar
- ALTA surveys
- As-built surveys
- Boundary surveys
- Cadastral surveys
- Construction surveys and stakeouts
- Control surveys
- Elevation/floodplain surveys
- Ground Penetrating Radar
- Hydrographic and underwater surveys
- Lot surveys
- Mining and subsurface surveys
- Photogrammetric surveys
- Sub-surface investigations
- Subdivision and site plan surveys
- Topographic surveys
Other Services
- Community outreach/public participation
- Construction phase services
- Expert witness testimony
- Emergency response services
- Regulatory training and safety services
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Spectra's clients include a range of state agencies, counties and municipalities, railroads, mining/aggregate companies, colleges and universities, developers, and many private industry clients.
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