Brownfields Articles
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MonoShield Protects Large Texas Warehouse Site Against Vapor Intrusion - Case Study
The project is led by Reserve Capital Partners, a leading commercial real estate development company. Its construction arm, Reserve Construction, is transforming the former brownfield into valuable warehouse space. As a leader in the field, Reserve Capital Partners has invested millions of dollars in developing and managing high-value properties for clients and investors throughout the Dallas ...
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Brownfield Site in St. Louis is Transformed Using MonoShield - Case Study
In 2009, the Green Street-led development team entered the site into Missouri’s Brownfield Development Program, a move that provided economic incentives to offset some of the site’s significant restoration costs, which included remediating impacted soil and groundwater and raising the building grounds above the river flood plain. Upon entering the program, site remediation commenced ...
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VOC Risk Mitigated at Site of Former Chemical Manufacturer - Case Study
A long-vacant San Francisco Bay Area brownfield was once the site of a former chemical plant that produced chlorofluorocarbons, fuel additive anti-knock compounds, and titanium dioxide from 1956 to 1997. With onsite rail service and more than three million households within 50 miles, the property was considered a prime location for a new 2.2 million square foot logistics development. However, the ...
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Nitra-Seal Protects Multi-Acre Tampa Logistics Center- Case Study
A new, expansive logistics center in Tampa, Florida, was the site of a former brownfield, where past operations left petroleum hydrocarbons and methane contaminants in soil and groundwater. The project required a cost effective solution to mitigate the potential vapor intrusion risk from these contaminants. After reviewing multiple vapor intrusion mitigation system (VIMS) options, the project ...
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Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER)
OSHA issued the Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) standards, 29 CFR 1910.120 and 29 CFR 1926.65 (54 Federal Register 9294-9336, March 6, 1989), to protect workers and enable them to handle hazardous substances safely and effectively. The HAZWOPER standard for the construction industry (29 CFR 1926.65) is identical to 29 CFR 1910.120. For brevity, the HAZWOPER standard ...
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Guidance on PFAS Remediation
As of June 15, the EPA released new guidance about PFAS, with four drinking water health advisories as well as the first $1 billion round of grant funding “to address PFAS and other emerging contaminants in drinking water.” In addition to these new guidelines, the EPA will propose new PFAS regulations this fall. PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a group of ...
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Improving the Predictability of Petroleum Brownfield Restoration
It’s no secret that the United States has an aging infrastructure problem. The public’s attention is focused on the repair of roadways and bridges, but there is also an ongoing initiative to address the existing infrastructure of legacy underground storage tanks, abandoned gas stations and truck stops, that are designated petroleum brownfields. As of July 2021, approximately 21 ...
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Oil & Gas: A Streamlined Approach to ESG
In today’s business climate, oil and gas corporations must have ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) strategies in place to satisfy a number of consumer and investor criteria that ranges from climate to social change. It’s clear that the need for energy continues to rise as populations across the globe grow. But major financial institutions like BlackRock have already ...
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New Perimeter Air Monitoring Guidelines Expected Soon in New Jersey
This summer, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) is expected to introduce a long-anticipated guidance document on perimeter air monitoring. The guidance will apply to sites for which an NJDEP spill case has been generated, placing them under regulation of the Contaminated Site Remediation and Redevelopment Program unit (formerly referred to as the Site Remediation ...
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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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Locating UST at Brownfield Redevelopment Site GeoTrax Survey - Case Study
Aestus performed our GeoTrax Survey to determine potential environmental liabilities at this abandoned gas station site. We discovered a previously unknown buried tank (see image above). The client removed the leaking tank and impacted soils before construction began on this redevelopment project. Our client was pleased that Aestus’ GeoTrax Survey identified this problem area before ...
By Aestus, LLC
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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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Brownfield Development Will Help the Global Housing Crisis
Brownfields no longer have to be unused, derelict sites. Land contaminated with explosive materials, hydrocarbons and other organic contaminants, can be safely reclaimed for residential and mixed-use purposes to help address housing and real estate shortages. And contaminated soil no longer has to be trucked to a landfill where it will create future environmental liabilities. Treating the ...
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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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New Jersey AC 7 26 D Remediation Standards
The New Jersey (USA) AC 7 26 D Remediation Standards developed by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is responsible for the implementation of the Brownfield and Contaminated Site Remediation Act, NJSA 58:10B-12, among other statutes such as The Industrial Site Recovery Act (ISRA), NJSA 13:1K‐6 et seq., the Water Pollution Control Act, NJSA 58:10A‐1 et seq., and the New Jersey ...
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New Pathways to Sustainable Efficiency
We are living in a digital explosion. The way goods and services are procured, produced, delivered, and consumed is increasingly driven by information technology. More work is done remotely. More interactions are digital. And more operations are automated. Almost all industries have undergone a quantum leap in technology, opening new pathways to efficiency, sustainability, and ...
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Brownfield Site Phytoremediation for Oil Company - Case Study
The site was a petroleum tank farm from the early half of the 20th century. Contaminants on-site include petroleum hydrocarbons, benzene and ethylbenzene, and PAHs naphthalene and 2-methylnapthalene. Most contaminants are in subsurface and groundwater, with the exception of PAHs that extend from the surface to ...
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Arbor Day Foundation and Intrinsyx Environmental Team up to Tackle Contamination
LINCOLN, Nebraska (June 14, 2021) – The Arbor Day Foundation and Intrinsyx Environmental are partnering to launch a remediation program to use trees and plants to clean up contaminated land, which is a process known as phytoremediation. "We have always seen trees as a solution to the most pressing issues we face, and we're excited to explore trees as a solution for industrial-scale ...
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Trees inoculated with probiotics could clean up America`s contaminated land
Trees that are used to clean contaminated soil often die from the toxins. Microbes could keep those trees healthy—offering a low-cost, low-energy way to clean hazardous sites across the U.S. In 1980, a federal law identified the most hazardous sites around the United States, those that contained toxic contaminants in urgent need of cleanup. These “Superfund sites,” named for ...
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A new paradigm of the industrial economy: the birth of ecodistricts
The new industrial ecodistricts are areas in which production activities, increasingly attentive to research and development, optimise resource management and interact with the local territory: they are the evolution of the old, often abandoned, industrial districts. The transformation of these areas is a great economic opportunity, and not just for the region. ...
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