Dirty Property

I saw this posted on ENS-Newswire.com and thought I would re-post here since it deals with subject matter from one of my previous posts. PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, March 19, 2008 (ENS) – The U.S. EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board has ordered a company that owns gas stations in the mid-Atlantic states to pay a $3.16 million penalty [...]

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Earlier this month, the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) published a new standard for the assessment of vapor intrusion into structures on property involved in real estate transactions (ASTM 2600-08). You can read the ASTM press release here. Generally speaking, vapor intrusion is an indoor air quality condition that occurs when chemicals volatilize [...]

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To continue on the subject of the last post, let’s assume that you disposed of the tank and the pea gravel or sand that surrounded the tank without incident. You even excavated as much of the stained soil from the base of the excavation as possible while you had the excavation contractor onsite. Let’s also [...]

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