Company History

Beth Fifield Hodgson and Barbara Fifield Guzman established Spring Environmental, Inc. to provide high quality, reasonably priced technical assistance to Pacific Northwest firms.  Since its inception in early 1997, Spring Environmental has developed air permits and supporting engineering and modeling for a dozen regional companies, prepared integrated emergency response plans for half of those, conducted multi-disciplinary environmental audits at almost two dozen facilities, and provided training to over 400 employees in the Spokane area.  Spring Environmental is managed by a licensed professional engineer and provides engineering evaluations of environmental systems.  In the past three years, we have evaluated dust collection systems and combustion processes. 

Industries serviced include:

  • Asphalt Production
  • Bakery Pan Glaze Operation
  • Chemical Manufacturing
  • Fiberglass Casting and Coating
  • Greenhouse Facility
  • Millboard Fabrication
  • Municipal Waste Management Operation
  • Paper Coating Operation
  • Plastics Manufacturing
  • Pulp and Paper Facility
  • Real Estate Development
  • Steel Milling
  • Steel Parts Casting Shop
  • Utility Transmission Operation
  • Veterinary Incineration
  • Wood Products Industry

We strive to meld our experiences with our clients’ needs to develop an effective and long-term solution to the environmental aspects of their production.  Some comments from our customers: 

“Able to economically solve environmental issues concerning both air and water”
            Greg Robertson, Bleyhl Farm Service, Inc.

 “ Information was well presented and useful”
            Robin J. Swanson, Johnson Matthey Electronics

 “Grasps nature of work and understands client needs”
            Adriane P. Borgias, PGT