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Services Provided by Environ-site Assessment, LLC, aka ESA
Environmental consulting services provided by Environ-site Assessment, LLC include:
- Phase I Environmental Sites Assessment (ESA), aka environmental due diligence investigation for real property acquisition
- Environmental and social Impacts Assessment
- Evaluation and management of social and environmental risks and mitigation
- Biodiversity and endangered/threatened species impact evaluation
- Environmental Justice and protection of indigenous people, minority/low income groups
- Air Quality Impact Assessment
- National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analyses and document preparation
- Wetland delineation and Water quality Impact Assessment
- Stormwater pollution prevention and management plan preparation
- Erosion/sediment control and stormwater management
- Contaminated soil/groundwater site characterization and remediation
- Solid/Hazardous waste management and permitting
- Cultural resources and historic preservation compliance
- Lead-based paint inspection, testing, and abatement
- Landfill groundwater investigation, sampling, and reporting
- Environmental justice and pollution of low-income communities
- Drinking water sampling, testing, and reporting
- Surface water quality investigation
Environ-site Assessment, LLC is a Virginia-certified disadvantage business enterprise, or DBE.
Why perform Environmental Due Diligence Assessment?
In order to protect prospective owner(s) of real property such as land/building from legal and/or financial liabilities, the potential new owner must first perform environmental due diligence investigation before or during property acquisition. The applicable federal regulation is 40 CFR 312, commonly called “All Appropriate Inquiry” or AAI. The intent of AAI is to qualify the prospective property owner for liability protections under 40 CFR 312.
The three types of landowner liability protections are: 1) bona fide prospective purchaser defense, 2) contiguous property owner liability protection, and 3) innocent landowner defense. A person can be held strictly liable for cleanup of hazardous substances (aka pollutants) at properties that they either currently own/operate, owned or operated in the past.
Without performing environmental due diligence assessment before or during acquisition of a real property, the prospective purchaser (aka potential new owner) can be financially and/or legally liable for occurrence of contaminants on that property. Whether or not the prospective purchaser contributed to or participated in activities which led to the presence of contaminants on the property does not matter.
We routinely use AAI (40 CFR 312) procedure or the American Society for Testing and Materials-ASTM Method E1527-13 to perform phase I environmental site assessment (ESA) before/during property acquisition. This includes Brownfields assessment and land revitalization.
What we have achieved
Below are selected samples of photos from sites we have assessed, characterized and cleaned up around the
Metro Washington DC area.
City skyline
Removal of UST a client system, followed by site remediation
Birthday Sparks
Multimedia environmental audit of facility for compliance
Fashion Magazine
Asbestos Inspection and Abatement before demolition of above structure
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Remediation of petroleum-contaminated soil after contaminated groundwater removal
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