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Frequent Questions

Why should I have a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) completed before I buy commercial property?

What’s a Phase II Environmental Site Assessment (ESA)?

What is a risk assessment?

Do I need a Stormwater Pollution Control Plan (SWPCP)?

Do I need a Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plan?

What is an Underground Injection Control (UIC) system?

Do I need to permit my Underground Injection Control (UIC) system?

How do I obtain “Authorization by Rule” (AR) for my Underground Injection Control (UIC) system?

Should I be concerned about my heating oil underground storage tank (UST)?

What should I do about my abandoned heating oil tank?

What our Clients are Saying?

Thank you. I enjoyed worked working with your team.

Fall Creek Farm and Nursery

Appreciate your help as we work to close another site.

Herrington Rose, Project Manager Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

Can I get a HALLELUIAH!!!!! Thanks for the update. We look forward to seeing the letter from WA DOE.

Robert Fitzburgh, PE Division Manager Vertex Construction Services Inc.

The thorough and timely manner in which you handled the problem here on Cascade was much appreciated. Without exception, your people were thoughtful, considerate, and professional. I felt you and your company handled my problem efficiently and carefully, and that we were in good hands.

Sheryl A. Fuller

Overall one of the better EMPs ever submitted to the Departments Solid Waste Section, thank you for putting this together.

Robert S. Barrows, Jr., Manager Western Region Solid Waste Program

Appreciate your help as we work to close another site.

Herrington Rose, Project Manager Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

Thank you for your assistance through this circus of errors, misinformation, lack of communication, and inefficiency. At times it seemed beyond redemption. Your project manager was magnificent, and we wish to emphasize that he had the only clear mind, the only steady hand, the only source of common sense in the whole battery of bureaus, departments, and businesses

Otis Wilson

Thank you, Steve! You have no idea how much I appreciate the way you have handled this

James R. Templin CSCEO Investors Mortgage Co.

Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)Vapor Intrusion Update

Since the DEQ significantly lowered the risk-based concentrations (RBCs) for naphthalene, many heating oil cleanup projects have required increased risk assessment and/or engineering controls to address vapor intrusion for naphthalene and total petroleum hydrocarbons. An increased number of cleanup projects with contamination over 2,500 ppm have required soil gas sampling to eliminate the vapor intrusion exposure pathway. In their February 2010 Contractors Bulletin, the DEQ’s Heating Oil Tank Program has updated the RBC table to include RBCs for heating oil constituents in soil and groundwater for the Vapor Intrusion into Buildings exposure pathway. Also, the DEQ is requiring work plans and the completion of a work plan checklist (see page 4 of the July 2009 Contractor Bulletin) prior to conducting soil vapor sampling. Look for DEQ to announce vapor intrusion guidance training in the coming weeks.

The full text of the DEQ’s February 2010 Contractor’s Bulletin can be found Here

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