ECOH services

ECOH can help you manage potential environmental liabilities by conducting an Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) that meets your needs. Our ESAs are conducted by qualified environmental professionals  following applicable professional standards. Environmental Site Assessments and Environmental Site Investigations (ESIs) are a useful tool employed by property owners, lenders, mortgagees, leasers, purchasers, adjacent property owners, and government agencies, to determine historical, existing, and potential environmental liabilities associated with various properties.

As long as hydrocarbon fuels remain in use as primary fuel sources for heating, transportation, and manufacturing, underground (UST’s) and aboveground (AST’s) storage tanks will be required to store fuels. Historically, hydrocarbon storage tanks have been a major source of environmental liability for property owners / tenants, and lenders, due to the mobile and volatile nature of hydrocarbon products, leaking tanks, improperly installed fuel systems, poor maintenance procedures, and spills.

Risk Assessments are an excellent tool to provide alternative remediation criteria on sites where standard remediation methods are not economically feasible, or cannot be undertaken due to legal constraints. The risk assessment process compares engineering applications with the biological study of relationships between the environment (terrestrial and aquatic) and industrial processes, and their consequences, to develop site-specific contaminant criteria. The assessment uses science, statistics and modeling to assess risk-related information.

Potable water testing in work places, multi unit residences, public facilities, educational facilities, institutions, health care facilities, long-term care facilities, and seasonal residences is now mandated under federal and provincial laws.