Performance of a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment on a former auto body facility located on Flat Street in Brattleboro, Vermont. The assessment was conducted as part of a real estate transaction, and revealed the potential presence of multiple gasoline underground storage tanks (USTs) as well as a floor drain system which served the subject building. A subsequent Phase II Environmental Site Investigation was conducted, which included the use of ground-penetrating radar as well as soil and groundwater sampling, and did not reveal the presence of any impacts to the subject property associated with the former site usage. The real estate transfer proceeded, and the subject property is currently being redeveloped as the Biologic Center, a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-Certified building to be utilized as an integrated, mixed-use medical facility.
Performed a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment on 368 acres of the former Kings Park Psychiatric Center, located in the Town of Smithtown, New York, prior to a proposed redevelopment. This assessment consisted of obtaining municipal and regulatory information regarding each of the buildings located on the subject property, followed by detailed site inspections of each structure. Numerous meetings and interviews were conducted with the Town Historian to determine the former usage and closing date of each of the site buildings. Upon submission, the report, which contained detailed information, including the coal ash landfill associated with the former coal-fired power plant, on-site spills, and buried asbestos resulting from building demolition, became part of the public record in the Town of Smithtown.
A vacant land parcel in Iowa whose Phase I Environmental Site Assessment identified evidence of the migration of trichloroethene (TCE), associated with unauthorized dumping on an adjoining parcel, which ultimately impacted the subject property. This determination was made subsequent to several interviews conducted with representatives of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (IA DNR), and was not able to be identified during the site inspection, or through a review of municipal and historical documentation. Discovery of this contamination prior to sale was critical in preventing the client from inheriting liability that was not apparent at the contract phase.
