Occasionally, ESA encounters projects where Industrial Site Recovery Act (ISRA) triggers have been overlooked. A common assumption is that the current owner or operator must comply with a prior ISRA trigger. However, that is not always the case. The following guidance explains how to potentially...
Landlords who lease to ISRA-subject tenants need do certain things to protect their properties and overall financial interests. Owning an industrial property in New Jersey comes with unique environmental compliance responsibilities. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) enforces the Industrial Site Recovery Act...
Environmental regulations are often negotiable. And because dealing with PCB compliance can be very expensive, it is important for your environmental consultant to be well-versed in the applicable regulations so they are able to advocate on your behalf. This article takes a look at a...
A Conceptual Site Model (CSM) allows ESA to better understand the physical, chemical, and biological conditions of a property, particularly in environmental assessments and groundwater management. As part of a CSM, the use of pressure transducers dramatically reduces the amount of time required to perform...
Regulations by federal and state agencies mandate that certain property owners/responsible parties must remediate PFAS to below ultra-low (parts per trillion) cleanup levels. Although remediation technologies continue to evolve, there are some current proven technologies that will meet these ultra-low standards. What are your options? Background The...
How NJDEP Remediation Certification can reduce time to closing a sale. As we all know, if your property is subject to an ISRA action, you must undertake a series of environmental steps to demonstrate that the site is clean. Often, these steps can take months,...
From ESA's perspective, it is difficult to imagine a profession where client advocacy is more impactful than in environmental consulting. After all, where else can a seemingly straight-forward $5,000 project transform into a six-figure, bank-account-draining nightmare in the blink of an eye? The reality is...
On rare occasions, ESA encounters actionable groundwater impacts caused by an unregulated contaminant for which there is no existing New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) soil standard. Typically, this would be a contaminant deemed to be non-carcinogenic and/or that does not pose an elevated...
A Three-fold Objective A successful soil site investigation requires fulfilling the needs of the three main parties involved in the action -- the NJDEP, the client, and ESA -- all of whom have differing objectives. To ensure public safety, the NJDEP requires strict adherence to environmental...
Collecting samples for laboratory analysis is part of most remedial investigations. A classic example is testing soil and groundwater to determine the contents of an underground storage tank (UST); the laboratory looks for hydrocarbons and volatile and semi-volatile compounds, including Tentatively Identified Compounds (TICs). So,...