By Christopher Richter
Technical Director SECUR-IT Program
Published November 2008 Commerce Magazine
Christopher.Richter@ewma.com

An unoccupied 40-acre property in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, offered an ideal location for residential housing and retail shopping, but before the owner could lease or redevelop the property, extensive environmental issues needed to be resolved. As part of a guaranteed fixed-price cleanup project known as SECUR-IT®, EWMA was retained to investigate and cleanup.

By Richard Arnold, P.E., C.P.G.
Director of Engineering & Remedial Action Services
Published November 2008 Real Estate New Jersey Magazine

At the outset of remedial action project, risk management is a key discussion topic. Standard remedial action risks should be discussed, project controls should be agreed upon, and projects should proceed after the needed controls are implemented. But risks to the integrity of existing buildings may not always be included in pre-remedial planning efforts. And there are cases where these risks can be severe.

Environmental Waste Management Associates Receives 2008 Best of Parsippany Award -- U.S. Local Business Association’s Award Plaque Honors the Achievement.

WASHINGTON D.C.-- Environmental Waste Management Associates, LLC (EWMA) has been selected for the 2008 Best of Parsippany Award in the Environmental & Ecological Services category by the U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA).

PARSIPPANY, NJ, September 18, 2008 -- Environmental Waste Management Associates, LLC (EWMA) is pleased to announce Janet Frey, will be presenting at the Geological Association of New Jersey 2008 Annual Conference for Environmental and Engineering Geology of Northeastern New Jersey held at Montclair State University on October 17th.

By Craig Gorczyca, CHMM
Director of Operations and Waste Management Services
Published September 2008 Commerce Magazine

Schools typically use and accumulate many different types of chemicals.  The most obvious are science rooms in high schools and colleges.  Chemistry and Biology laboratories are known for having various, and occasionally dangerous, types of toxic chemicals that are used in educational experiments.  Art rooms and vocational skills rooms such as wood and metal shops typically contain substances like solvents and glues that are covered by Community Right-to-Know (CRTK) regulations.  Grammar schools storing innocuous products including paint and adhesive may trigger reporting and labeling obligations under CRTK.  Custodial staff supply rooms, janitorial closets, and boiler rooms also contain various cleaning and maintenance products that need to be managed in accordance with the CRTK regulations. 

Vapor intrusion is an increasingly problematic condition for the owners, operators, and prospective buyers of buildings in close proximity to shallow soil and/or ground water contaminated with gasoline, solvents, and other mixtures of toxic volatile chemicals (collectively referred to as VOCs).

With today’s heightened awareness of our effects on the global environment, building owners, tenants, and state and federal regulatory agencies are assessing green alternatives to “business as usual”.

Even minor changes to an office or industrial facility’s operational procedures can result in significant reductions in the emission of greenhouse gases (mainly VOC’s).  Additionally, in almost every case, a less carbon intensive approach to building operations maintenance and renovation also brings about both long and short term conservation of financial resources (i.e., cost savings).

Environmental Waste Management Associates Receives 2008 Best of Parsippany Award -- U.S. Local Business Association’s Award Plaque Honors the Achievement.

By Michael Logue
“Green building”, “sustainable development”, “carbon friendly”, “carbon footprint”, “environmental accounting” are all terms that have exploded across the trade press and mass media since the UN Environmental Programme’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change unequivocal announcement in 2007 that global warming is occurring, and that it has an anthropogenic (human caused) component.  Regardless of your scientific or political beliefs, the marketplace (customers, clients, and probably very soon, regulatory agencies) is clamoring for ways to demonstrate that the impacts of our most common, every day commercial and retail practices – merchandise displays, parking lot maintenance, lighting – on the world’s highly interconnected climate and associated ecosystem have been considered and minimized.

By Alfred Moffit, C.P.G.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) began the Cleanup Star Program in February 2004 to expedite environmental investigations and cleanups at low-risk sites, and has succeeded in this program over the past three years.  The Cleanup Star Program allows certified environmental professionals/consultants to investigate and remediate specific qualifying sites and Areas of Concern (AOCs) with limited NJDEP oversight.