Dirty Property

one of the major west coast sites that it seems everyone in the environmental remediation business gets to work on at one point is the AeroJet Sacramento Facility. Even though I am based in Southern California, I did a soil gas investigation out there in the summer of 2002 or 2003. It seems that the [...]

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Last month, TMW Corporation, a plating company located in Van Nuys, California was fined $100,000 by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). These fines are not arbitrarily handed out over night, they are generally the product of numerous unanswered notices of violation, inspection requests, and other correspondence with the EPA. Avoiding these types of [...]

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This post will continue a post series that I started toward the beginning of this blog and including: Regulatory FAQ Regulatory FAQ II Definition of Terms and Industrial Facility Those posts described the basic steps associated with the work I do at various types of sites. This post will describe my involvement in the standard [...]

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For this post, I thought I would continue on a subject that I began a couple of years ago on this blog: Regulatory FAQ ?????????Regulatory FAQ II and Definition of Terms Those posts described the basic steps associated with investigation of your standard corner retail gas station. For this post, let’s assume that you own [...]

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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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Back to our regularly scheduled program of regulatory how-to.  One of the problems that I mentioned in my last post that you may encounter is the potential that the Underground Storage Tank (UST) that you were planning to remove leaked during it’s former use.  Let’s assume again that the tank held automotive gasoline.  Let’s also [...]

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One question I commonly get is, “What is the regulatory agency for my property?”.  This relatively simple question has an amazingly complex answer.  The answer is so complex that I will spend the next few blog posts answering it. Let’s first discuss a relatively common and relatively simple situation, a site with an Underground Storage [...]

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