West Rock Community Center Environmental & Hazardous Materials Assessment

EnviroMed Services was retained by the New Haven Housing Authority to prepare environmental assessment for the West Rock Community Center. The environmental work began with a Phase I ESA for the site.  Due to old underground storage tanks (USTs) at the site and hazardous building materials, a Phase II ESA (soil sampling) and building investigations was performed for the West Community Center.  The soil sampling revealed areas of contaminated soil around a former/existing two 10,000-gallon fuel UST.  The building contained hazardous materials including asbestos, lead and PCBs, and recommendations were made by EnviroMed to New Haven Housing Authority’s Project Manager to remediate and dispose of these materials.

EnviroMed assisted the New Haven Housing Authority in providing cost estimates, design specifications and bidding documents for both soil remediation and building hazardous materials abatement. EnviroMed Services’ Licensed Environmental Professional (LEP) has worked to develop several solutions to deal with contaminated soil. The filing of a Land Use Restriction for the property will result in a saving of one million dollars in the cost of remediation of the property. A cost estimate and time frame for each approach was discussed with New Haven Housing Authority’s Project Manager. All phases of the assessment, sampling, and specifications/drawings were reviewed by New Haven Housing Authority’s Project Manager and the assigned architect for this project. Specifications were approved and the abatement phase of work will be supervised and monitored by EnviroMed. The construction is anticipated to start in May 2014.