CES, Civil Environmental Survey Group
Serving Southern California since 2001

Environmental consulting, remediation and field services for Southern California.

CES assesses property, investigates and cleans up contaminated soil and groundwater, and monitors and maintains landfills and remediation systems. Our own engineers, geologists, scientists and field crews carry each site from the first Phase I to final regulatory closure.

25Years in Southern California
450+Environmental projects
100+Remediation projects since 2012
18Operating and closed landfills served
50+DTSC Voluntary Cleanup Program projects
145+Caltrans on-call investigations
Who we are

One accountable team from first site visit to final agency letter.

CES employs its own engineers, geologists, scientists, project managers and field crews, and holds a California Class A and HAZ contractor license. We perform the consulting and the field construction and operations ourselves, so the people who scope your project are the people who finish it.

About CES
CES field crew safety briefing before mobilization
Recent results

Sites carried to the finish line

NFAUnrestricted land use, DTSC, August 2026
Contaminated site closure

Carson Plaza

Dry cleaner site taken from assessment to a DTSC No Further Action determination for unrestricted land use, with approximately 99% reduction across soil, groundwater and vapor.

Driftwood Village SVE system knockout vessel
Remediation, DTSC VCP

Driftwood Village

Two SVE systems on 22 wells designed, built and operated by CES for Phillips Edison & Company. PCE down 99.6% at the historic hotspot.

CES crew connecting landfill header piping
Landfill services

OC Waste & Recycling

Prime since 2013 across 13 active and closed landfills, including Prima Deshecha, Olinda Alpha and Frank R. Bowerman.

All project profiles

Why clients hire CES

Six reasons, each with a record behind it

One firm from assessment to closure

We assess, design, build, operate and close. No hand off between a consultant and a separate contractor, and no markup on subcontracted field work.

Class A and HAZ license 859757, with a licensed PE on staff

Our own field crews

CES crews sample, construct and maintain, which means faster mobilization, consistent sampling quality and direct control of schedule and safety.

Field supervision on 500+ projects; SSHO on 200+

Clients keep us

Our largest public contracts have been renewed and re-won over many years, the clearest measure of performance an agency can give.

LAUSD since 2012 · OC Waste & Recycling since 2013 · Pitchess since 2020

Principals stay on the work

An owner of the company leads each engagement and a licensed engineer signs each regulatory deliverable.

Principal engineer practicing since 1998 with 250+ projects

Scoped to the endpoint

Every scope starts with the decision you need, whether a clean transaction, a closure letter or continuous compliance, and leaves out work that does not move toward it.

Carson Plaza: DTSC No Further Action, unrestricted land use

Contracts that fit the work

Time and materials for consulting and on-call work, fixed price for recurring monitoring and maintenance, lump sum for construction where procurement requires it.

Fixed price routine and T&M non-routine for OC Waste & Recycling
Regulatory record

Prime and principal work under every level of environmental oversight in Southern California.

FederalU.S. Environmental Protection Agency
FederalU.S. Army Corps of Engineers
FederalU.S. Navy, NAVFAC
StateDepartment of Toxic Substances Control
StateRegional Water Quality Control Boards
StateCalRecycle
StateCaltrans
RegionalSouth Coast AQMD
LocalLocal Enforcement Agencies
LocalCounty health and public works
LocalPorts of Long Beach and Los Angeles
LocalCity building and safety
Start with the endpoint

Buying, building on or closing a Southern California site?

Tell us the decision you need to make and when. We will tell you what it takes to get there and who on our team will carry it through.

CES field crew on a commercial remediation site