Dirty Property

The State of California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has released a new draft maximum allowable dose level for Chrome VI as an oral reproductive toxicant. This draft has been issued and OEHHA intends to adopt the new maximum allowable dose level for Chrome VI as an oral reproductive toxicant at 8.2 micrograms [...]

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that $1.4 million is being awarded for cleanup efforts at contaminated California sites known as brownfields. Both the California Department of Toxic Substances Control and City of Sacramento were chosen to receive the grant funds. A brownfield is a parcel of land where hazardous substances or pollutants are [...]

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It was an exiting day here in the office on July 13th. We received a gift from the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB), a closure letter for one of our client’s sites located in Reseda. I would say that the Los Angeles RWQCB was very generous, but as my 5th grade teacher [...]

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Some of our clients have received a request from the Federal EPA to perform sampling and laboratory analysis for additional compounds known as Lead Scavengers. Lead Scavengers are common additives in leaded gasoline and have been found to potentially pose a risk to groundwater. If a site was entered into one of the Leaking Underground [...]

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This is insane. Back in September 2009, I posted an email I had received from the EPA stating that the agency was going to sue the parent company of “The North Face”, the outdoor retailer. Now it appears that they have decided that they are going to sue The North Face and two other companies [...]

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There was an interesting article posted in the Los Angeles times today titled, “Toxic Soil Lurks Beneath Carson’s Carousel Neighborhood”. The Los Angeles times always has a flair for the dramatic and this article’s title is no exception, but this is a very real concern. There are all the makings of a major environmental case [...]

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In many of the typical site investigations that I have mentioned before on this blog, we generally follow a phased approach to investigation, remediation, and ultimately closure. The first phase of investigation is known as a “Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA)”. While this title may not be too creative, it is an industry accepted [...]

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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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As a resident of the City of Long Beach, I have been following the recent developments of the land swap between the City of Long Beach and Tom Dean. The proposed deal is some city owned land on the West Side of the city for the Los Cerritos Wetlands on the East Side of the [...]

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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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