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From Pinedale with love
Nationwide military contractor sets up shop in Pinedale
PINEDALE – When a hurricane struck
Puerto Rico leaving the small island nation
without simple things such as power and
water, a Sublette County business stepped
up.
Enviremedial Services, Inc., a national
and new-to-Pinedale U.S. military services
contractor, was asked to step to the plate
and build a water filtration system to pro-
vide fresh water for the military base, Fort
Buchanan.
While new to providing drinking water,
and new to Sublette County, the company
isn’t new to developing and maintaining fil-
tration systems.
According to Sam Sumrall, director of
sales and marketing, the company initially
designed self-contained wash bays. The
military has a directive to reduce water
usage and keeping military vehicles clean
takes lots of water. The wash bays enable
large vehicles to be washed; the water is col-
lected in large tanks, “polished” and reused.
Not only does it reuse the water, the system
also reduces the amount of contaminants
that must be discarded. Instead of paying to
dispose of 8,000 gallon of water that may
contain chemicals such as fuel, the military
is looking at disposing a couple barrels of
contaminants that have been filtered from
the water.
That technology wasn’t far off of what
was needed when the hurricane struck in
Puerto Rico.
A filtration system was designed that
can purify rainwater or connect to a pub-
lic water system. Because it is completely
powered by solar panels, it works without
electricity.
Sumrall said he just returned from Puerto
Rico, where he said they are extremely
pleased with the system.
“It’s going to open up an entirely new
market for us,” Sumrall said.
Moving to Pinedale
Enviremedial Services, Inc., relocated its
manufacturing division to Pinedale in De-
cember of 2017. The company’s headquar-
ters and several other divisions are based
in Oceanside, Calif., where the company
started operations in 1991.
ESI president Geoff Keogh has owned
property in Bondurant for four years and
immediately saw the great potential in Pine-
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By Holly Dabb, hdabb@subletteexaminer.com
Sam Sumrall, director of sales and
marketing for Enviremedial Services,
Inc., shows how the final panels will
be placed on the enclosed water fil-
tration system before it was shipped
to Fort Buchanan in Puerto Rico.
dale for the manufacturing division, also
previously based in Oceanside, Calif.
“I first passed through Pinedale in 1983
and spent time in Wyoming on and off until
I was able settle in Bondurant,” Keogh said.
“Our owners, Chris and Pat Keogh, made
trips up to explore the possibilities and
found the area an excellent location to relo-
cate ESI’s manufacturing.”
With the area’s potential workforce and
extremely friendly business environment,
64 Runway Lane at the Pinedale Airport
was chosen for the manufacturing opera-
tions. The move began in December 2017
and is in the final set-up stages.
Founded in 1991, ESI is a privately held
company that provides equipment and ser-
vices primarily to military bases throughout
the U.S. and Puerto Rico. ESI currently em-
ploys 54 people nationwide, many of whom
are veterans and several are in serving in
the Reserves or National Guard. ESI has
proudly already hired two Wyoming resi-
dents to start building the local team.
ESI President Geoff Keogh expressed his
optimism about the move. “We are excited
about locating in Wyoming and hope to be-
come a vital part of the community. As our
business develops, the plans call for hiring
local skilled labor. With ESI’s nationwide
presence, employment opportunities will
include travel throughout the United States
and Puerto Rico to accomplish a large in-
flux of work. In recent discussions among
management, it was noted that everything
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64 Runway Road is the new manufacturing location in Sublette County for
Enviremedial Services, Inc. The low tax structure and quality of life were cited
as reasons for locating the manufacturing facility in Sublette County.
about Wyoming, and particularly Pinedale, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif.;
fits perfectly with our plans and goals for Naval Weapons Station, China Lak, Calif.;
the future.” Marine Corps Air Station 29 Palms, Calif.;
“Since moving the manufacturing divi- and many U.S. Army Reserve and National
sion, ESI has had nothing but the warmest Guard locations throughout California.
welcome and hospitality from everyone Seventeen years ago, ESI developed a pro-
in the community and local government,” cess to dramatically decrease the amount of
Keogh said. “We could not be more grate- wastewater hauled off military installations
ful and motivated to help contribute to this during cleanings of the in-ground oil-water
wonderful place we now call home.” separators.
The five main divisions of the company ESI developed mobile trucks, which
are: now will be one of the products produced in
• Manufacturing division Pinedale, to recycle usable water that used
ESI’s newly relocated manufacturing di- to be hauled away, and returns it to the oil
vision specializes in the design, engineer- water separators. ESI’s process has saved
ing and manufacturing of water treatment, valuable potable water by the hundreds of
water recycling, rain harvest and wash sys- millions of gallons since the program was
tems for military and civilian aircraft, mili- started.
tary and civilian heavy vehicle applications • Enviremedial services construction di-
and potable water treatment systems. All vision
these systems will be now manufactured in This division supports both the manu-
Pinedale. facturing division and the facilities main-
The manufacturing facility consists of tenance divisions. ESI construction teams
welding operations, a small machine shop, usually deploy to wash-rack or rain-harvest
thermal plastic welding and an ETL panel sites first and build infrastructure that might
shop. One of ESI’s newest products is wash be required before the systems are installed.
rack rain harvest systems and rain harvest- This division also supports the facili-
to-potable water systems. ties division with major construction work.
ESI was commissioned by the U.S. Army Notably, this team will be instrumental in
to develop these two systems to assist in repairing 14 U.S. Army Reserve Centers in
meeting the mandates of the U.S. military Puerto Rico that were heavily damaged by
in meeting their consumption needs of the hurricane. There is an estimated $10.5
fresh domestic potable water. The latest million in heavy repair work in Puerto Rico
system just finished up the manufacturing just at these 14 sites alone that ESI will be
process in Pinedale and is an off-grid solar/ responsible for completing and work has
battery powered unit that collects rainwa- already begun.
ter and processes and treats it into potable • HVAC, mechanical and building auto-
water. Besides the system in Puerto Rico, mation systems division
two other rain-harvest systems are currently This division has been instrumental in
under evaluation in Savanna, Ga., and Fort installing HVAC and photo-voltalic con-
Worth, Texas. trol systems in many military and govern-
• Military facilities maintenance and ment facilities to assist in meeting energy
management reduction mandates. ESI building automa-
ESI conducts preventative maintenance, tion division is at the forefront of designing
major and minor repairs and manages and installing building systems to remotely
on more than 75 U.S. Army Reserve and monitor and control virtually any system
Marine Corps facilities nationwide. Most within a building. Most of ESI-built envi-
notably, ESI is contracted to maintain the ronmental equipment has remote monitor-
350,000-square-foot Marine Forces Reserve ing and control, which has been a huge
headquarters in New Orleans, La. factor in the saving of equipment and repair
• Oil water separator maintenance and costs.
management More information on the company can be
ES services industrial water systems on found at www.esicleanwater.com.