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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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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I know that this post is a diversion from the Regulatory FAQ series that I promised in my last post, but I feel this is important so here it is: I received an email yesterday from the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) , the agency responsible for determining the levels at which chemicals, [...]

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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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Welcome to my blog! My name is David McAlister, thanks for stopping by and checking out my blog. Here I will post my thoughts and impressions on the commercial and industrial real eastate market, specifically propety where the soil and/or groundwater has been adversely impacted in some way and requires environmental scrutiny. To put it [...]

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