The Land Assessment Services Blog
Massive Milk Spills to Cry Over
In the past few years, I’ve been tasked with assessing and remediating two properties that were
purchased without the benefit of a Phase I ESA. These were not purchased before the 1990s when the
practice was in […]
Pay Me Now or Pay Me Much More Later
“To be honest with you, I took a risk and bought the site without a Phase I ESA,” an inquirer said of an iconic corner site in Tampa he plans to redevelop. Here’s what we […]
Bad News
Disseminating bad news can be easy for large production shops, but for the comes-highly-recommended
consultant hand-chosen to work on a challenging site, the roll out must be carefully orchestrated.
What needs to be tucked far back in […]
Old Arsenic Laced – RECs Related to Arsenic
There are many contaminants that might be found in the soil and groundwater, but none strike more
fear than arsenic. This is not because it’s particularly lethal, but because of its name, made notorious by
the 1939 […]
02/21/17 Update
We’re amazed at how rapidly Phase I environmental site assessments are produced these days. The environmental data acquired is almost a Phase I ESA in and of itself. With everything transportable into a template, all […]
01/07/17 Update
Phase I environmental site assessments are not normally the focus of environmental consulting firms. Because of market forces, there is always a ceiling to what the consulting firm can charge for a Phase I ESA, […]
10/30/16 Update
If you perform enough Phase I environmental site assessments, you will build a dossier of case studies, and time and chance may allow you to see how applicable your conclusions were. A scary proposition I […]
4/17/15 Update
Everyone’s risk posture is different. Our Phase I environmental site assessments (ESA) need to accommodate for the degrees of difference, and make it possible for the risk adverse to decide to be cautious based on […]
6/10/14 Update
LAS has settled in with the new ASTM standard (ASTM E 1527-13), having retooled its Phase I ESA reports. We are not really doing anything different from our previous comprehensive site assessment approach, but vapor […]
1/1/14 Update
LAS will begin to perform its Phase I environmental site assessments (ESA) according to the new ASTM standard (ASTM E 1527-13) beginning January 1, 2014.
The current uncertainty involves the fate of the previous standard ASTM […]