brownfield Articles
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US EPA’s petroleum brownfields action plan: promoting revitalization and sustainability
The nation’s approach to assessing, cleaning up, and reusing brownfields has evolved dramatically since the emergence of EPA and state brownfields programs. The cleanup and subsequent redevelopment of brownfields have had significant positive impacts on their surrounding communities, including enhancing local economies, increasing property values, generating new jobs, and creating new commercial, ...
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All Appropriate Inquiry and Brownfields Redevelopment
On the heels of the 2002 Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act, Congress directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate a regulation to conduct all appropriate inquiry (AAI) for the newly expanded federal landowner liability protections. With EPA’s AAI regulation now final, what impact will the new rule have on brownfields ...
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Brownfields redevelopment issues revisited
The value of revitalising contaminated or brownfield sites has gained widespread acceptance. The efforts at remediation and eventual redevelopment of these sites involve several stakeholders, because the exercise directly impacts a number of different interests. The key issues to be resolved for the successful rejuvenation of brownfields are technical, legal, financial, future land use and ...
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Raptor Survey Reveals Old Building Foundations
A Raptor survey of a brownfield site in the UK, reveals clear evidence of old building foundations and associated infrastructure. The data was collected with an 18-channel Raptor-45 vehicle set-up [insert image] to provide a detailed visualisation of buried obstructions. Raptor is ideal for the rapid and non-invasive investigation of brownfield, greenfield, and urban environments to reveal what ...
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Phase 1.5: Site Inspection Via Non-Intrusive Scan - Case Study
Reducing Risk in the Brownfields Process If a Phase 1 ESA for a prospective Brownfields investment property indicates environmental impacts are possible or likely, Aestus offers Phase 1.5 Site Inspection scanning to image the site’s subsurface at much higher data density. This non-intrusive screening approach provides a better understanding of subsurface challenges and risks, reduces ...
By Aestus, LLC
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La Regeneración Sostenible de Espacios Urbanos Degradados, Brownfields. El Proyecto Cabarnet
Entre los Solares Degradados o Ruinas Industriales ('Brownfields' en terminología anglosajona) requieren especial atención aquellos que se encuentran ubicados en áreas urbanas o en la proximidad de éstas. Este interés deriva de que en ellos confluyen problemas de naturaleza ambiental (contaminación del suelo y riesgo para la salud humana y los ecosistemas), problemas de tipo social asociados ...
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BioTech restorations - Project summaries
GeoSolve is BioTech Restorations' West Coast affiliate and has closed three (3) Brownfield projects in California using Factor. Attached is a summary of our operations and more information can be found at ...
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Financing brownfields: EPA state program highlights
Public financing is often essential for encouraging the assessment and cleanup of brownfields. Without public financing or government-backed financial incentives, many brownfields would remain idle and potentially contaminated. The costs associated with the redevelopment of brownfields include costs associated with demolition, site preparation, and construction. In addition to these costs, ...
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Revitalizing contaminated sites: the revitalization handbook addressing liability concerns
The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act, (“Brownfields Amendments”), Pub. L. No. 107-118, enacted in January 2002, amended the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), to provide important liability limitations for landowners that qualify as: (1) bona fide prospective purchasers, (2) contiguous property owners, or (3) innocent ...
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WKC has been appointed to conduct Acoustic and Flow Induced Vibration studies for Qatar Energy
WKC has been appointed to undertake an acoustic induced vibration (AIV) Study and a Flow Induced Vibration (FIV) Study for the EPIC for WHP-U08C Topside, Pipelines, Umbilical & Brownfield Modification at PS1K (Phase 5-1B). The scope of the project include a new wellhead platform (WHP-U08C) as well as modifications at existing Production Station PS1 Complex, pipelines and umbilical between ...
By WKC Group
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Proposal Guidelines for Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Grants
What Are Brownfields? These guidelines are provided pursuant to Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance # 66.818. The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act (“Brownfields Law” or “the Law”, P.L. 107-118) requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to publish guidance to assist applicants in preparing proposals for grants to address brownfield sites. This ...
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Hollywood Casino Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A - Case Study
A $400 million redevelopment project that will be the site for a new gaming casino was formerly an automotive factory. The primary contaminants of concern on this 123 acre brownfield site Primary concern were residual chlorinated compounds from former cleaning and manufacturing ...
By CETCO
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The revival of urban waterfront areas: evaluation of British and Irish experiences
Owing to the decline of urban ports-related activities, since the post-war period many European waterfront areas have been affected by obsolescence and degradation. Once vibrant seats of activities, flows of goods and people relationships, they have been gradually dismissed and abandoned, sometimes becoming 'no-go-areas'. Overwhelmed by deep structural changes, cities have been forced to face ...
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Legal Lookout: Life after Aviall: Its Impact on Voluntary Cleanup
Last December, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a Fifth Circuit decision holding that a party who had not been subject to a civil action suit under Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) Sections 106 or 107 may not seek contribution under CERCLA Section 113(f).[1] It is important to consider the implications of Aviall on Brownfields properties and ...
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Quality Assurance Guidance for Conducting Brownfields Site Assessments
Executive Summary Many sites across the nation once used for industrial and commercial purposes are now abandoned or under-used. Some of these sites — often referred to as “Brownfields”— are contaminated; others are perceived or suspected to be contaminated. In 1993, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created the Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative to empower States, Tribes, ...
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Three Ways to Simplify Brownfield Redevelopment
Petroleum brownfields are exceptionally prevalent throughout the United States. As of July 2021, data suggests that approximately 238 million people live within three miles of a leaking underground storage tank (also known as a LUST). That number accounts for almost three-quarters of the entire population. The negative aspects of brownfields are obvious. Contaminants of concern, like Methyl ...
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Driving your growth and profits with brownfields
Brownfields create economic growth while better protecting human health and the environment. Eligible Brownfield properties generally include property that has been or is being used for industrial, commercial, residential, agricultural or public purposes, is contaminated or perceived to be contaminated and/or functionally obsolete and/or blighted.Being a Michigan native, I will use Michigan as a ...
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New Standard Defines Continuing Obligations Monitoring at Contaminated Sites to Retain Federal Liability Protection
The 2011 Brownfields Amendments[1] provide clarity on federal environmental liability protection to facilitate brownfields transactions, but until recently commercial property owners had little guidance on how to maintain liability protection when purchasing sites with continuing environmental monitoring and maintenance obligations. The new ASTM Standard Guide for identifying and complying with ...
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Modelling multidimensional redevelopment of derelict buildings
The aim of the research is the analysis of renewal of disused and derelict buildings as a complex process and a search for rational decisions on derelict buildings management with an emphasis on sustainable development. A technique for effective model conforming to the main principles of sustainable development is proposed and its essential planning and technical components are described. The ...
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An Integrated System for Demolition Techniques Selection
The limited availability of greenfield sites has led to more developments being situated on brownfield sites, which have been used for other purposes. In many cases, such development involves the demolition of existing buildings and structures. It is very important that the most appropriate methods are used in the demolition of such facilities, as this has serious implications for safety, the ...
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