Founder and CEO, Howard Spouse mugs for camera during a tank removal and remediation job.

Howard Sprouse has been an entrepreneur and business owner as long as he can remember, having owned fishing boats, a butcher shop, a metals fabrication company, and a boat building business over the past 30 years.
However to Sprouse those other businesses were a classroom, preparing him for his most recent creation . . . a financially solvent, market driven corporation whose bottom-line isn’t just about money, it’s about environmental restoration as well.
Raised in Vancouver, Washington, and having lived on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula most of his life, Sprouse first envisioned his biological soils remediation company more than ten years ago, when he dreamt of a company which relies on the natural ability of micro-organisms to break down petroleum (and other hazardous chemicals) as a competitive and environmentally sound alternative to other methods used by the industry.
A recent cleanup project in the backyard of a Port Townsend, Washington residence marks the christening of Sprouse’s newest corporate identity, The Remediators, Inc. Sprouse founded the company in 2003, and has been working on various projects for a number of years. The emphasis until now has been on developing feasibility studies, bench tests and “bio-prospecting” for new microbes for the remediation jobs. Now The Remediators Inc. is ready to get its feet into the mud, and that’s just where Sprouse says he feels most comfortable.
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