SITE ASSESSMENT, REMEDIATION AND REGULATORY CLOSURE
Client: Private Owner, Former Bulk Fuel Storage facility, Atlantic Highlands, NJ Brownfield Science & Technology, Inc. (BSTI) was retained to design and implement the process to redevelop a former bulk fuel storage facility for residential use. The 7.4 acre property operated as a bulk petroleum storage and distribution facility from 1929 to the late 1970s. Operations ceased and […]
COMMERCIAL BUYER/SELLER AGREEMENT
Client: Real Estate Holdings Company, Philadelphia, PA Brownfield Science & Technology, Inc. (BSTI) was retained to find solutions to adverse environmental conditions discovered during a Phase II Environmental Site Assessment. Metals, VOC’s, PAH’s and free phase petroleum (LNAPL) were identified in soil and groundwater interrupting the progress of a significant property transaction. BSTI used forensic science and […]
COMMERCIAL PROPERTY TRANSACTION AND RISK MANAGEMENT
Client: Top 100 National Law Firm, Philadelphia, PA Brownfield Science & Technology, Inc. (BSTI) provided due diligence consulting services on behalf of a potential buyer of a restaurant property. During its Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) of the property, BSTI noted an absence of sufficient closure documentation for a former heating oil tank located beneath the […]
AQUIFER CONTROL AND LNAPL RECOVERY
Client: Coal-fired Electrical Generating Station, Millsboro, DE Brownfield Science & Technology, Inc. (BSTI) was retained to manage and implement remedial activities associated with a 500,000 gallon subsurface diesel fuel (LNAPL) spill at an operating electrical generating facility. The fuel spill adversely impacted on-site soil and groundwater and the sediments of an adjacent navigable marine estuary. Within five […]
CHLORINATED HYDROCARBONS IN SOIL AND GROUNDWATER
Client: Municipal Solid Waste Authority, Charlottesville, VA Brownfield Science & Technology, Inc. (BSTI) was retained to design, build, and operate a remediation system to address chlorinated volatile organic compounds in a former paint waste pit at a municipal landfill in Charlottesville Virginia. Approximately 85,000 gallons of a leaded paint sludge/solvent mixture and 15,000 gallons of TCE and Freon […]
SOIL VAPOR EXTRACTION, AIR SPARGING AND AQUIFER DEPRESSION
Client: Redevelopment company, Newark, DE Brownfield Science & Technology, Inc. (BSTI) was retained to provide remediation solutions for paint purge solvents and other volatile organic compounds in soil and groundwater near a paint mix building of a former automotive assembly plant. The entire facility was under demolition and redevelopment during the remediation phase. BSTI performed feasibility and […]
EVALUATING INFLUENCE FROM SPRAY IRRIGATION
Client: Law Firm, Philadelphia, PA Brownfield Science and Technology, Inc. (BSTI) was recruited to resolve a dispute regarding the influence from a spray irrigation field to surface and subsurface conditions. BSTI created a baseline site conceptual model using topographic surveys and historic groundwater data dating prior to land development. BSTI then completed field reconnaissance as well as […]
GROUNDWATER MODELING, PREDICTIVE FATE AND TRANSPORT ASSESSMENT
Client: Fate and Transport Assessment for Site Closure, DE Brownfield Science & Technology, Inc. (BSTI) was hired to develop a robust and defensible finite difference groundwater flow model to assess the future transport of dissolved petroleum constituents from a large and complex LNAPL remediation site to a nearby river. BSTI evaluated the site history, existing data and […]
WASTEWATER PRETREATMENT SYSTEM PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
Client: Mushroom Growing and Packing facility, Kennett Square, PA Brownfield Science & Technology, Inc. (BSTI) was retained to evaluate circumstances causing discharge permit non-compliance from a wastewater pretreatment tank at a mushroom growing and packing complex. Over many years, the mushroom growing and packing complex expanded operations and added process lines resulting in significant flow increases and greater […]
DEFINING RISK FROM LEGACY OPERATIONS
Client: Private Equity Investor, East Brunswick, NJ Brownfield Science & Technology, Inc. (BSTI) was retained by a private equity firm to evaluate and define possible environmental regulatory and business risks associated with their contemplated foreclosure on a commercial property in East Brunswick, NJ. At project inception, no environmental conditions were known to exist at the eight-acre retail […]