Dirty Property

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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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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As many of you may already know, the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) publishes standards for everything from Eye Protectors for Field Hockey (F2713-09) to the test method for kinematic viscosity of transparent and opaque liquids (and calculation of dynamic viscosity) (D445-06). One of the many various ASTM standards that I work with [...]

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This was posted last week and the sampling was presumably performed a couple of weeks ago, but I am posting it to illustrate that public focus on these issues is increasing. U.S. EPA to sample indoor air at Oakland homes, businesses near former plating shop Release date: 07/23/2008 Contact Information: Wendy Chavez, 415/947-4248, chavez.wendy@epa.gov High [...]

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This article was Published by the Los Angeles Times today and is interesting considering the controversy surrounding perchlorate in soil and groundwater here in California. The Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board and water supply agencies in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties have an especially heightened state of awareness about perchlorate due to their [...]

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I recently had a client request a number of transaction screens for a block of properties that they are purchasing. A transaction screen is a limited environmental assessment designed to identify readily apparent and potential environmental liabilities associated with a site or facility. All work is conducted in accordance with the ASTM E 1528-06: Standard [...]

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I am proud to announce that we have achieved closure for one of our clients at a property in Gardena, California.  Here is a little bit of information about the project:  From the late 1980s to 1997, a manufacturer of metal fasteners for the aerospace industry and military was located at the site.  These former [...]

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It has been a few weeks since my last post, but it is time I followup on one of my previous posts regarding impacted soil. In that post, I described a situation where an Underground Storage Tank (UST) was encountered and needed to be removed. During the process of removing the tank, we found that [...]

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