Brownfield Site Evaluation and Remediation
Bristol Brass & Copper, Bristol, VA
Bristol Brass & Copper, Inc., needed to expand its manufacturing operations and identified an abandoned Brownfield site as a preferred location.
HSMM was contracted to perform Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) to evaluate the extent of impacts associated with purchase of the property.
The abandoned facility once housed various bench, pilot, and full-scale coal gasification processes. When the former owner declared bankruptcy, the site was abandoned, leaving a tank farm storing mixtures of various oils, coal liquids, and water; process equipment; and over 300 drums of coal oils, coal tar, coal solids, and oily water. The property trustee was subject to a pending EPA Administrative Order of Consent (AOC) that considered the tanks at the site as RCRA hazardous waste management units.
HSMM was able to demonstrate that the materials in the tanks and drums were exempt from regulation under RCRA due to the processes generating the materials and the recyclable nature of the materials. Based on this conclusion, the closure of the tank farm was removed from the pending EPA AOC and was placed under the jurisdiction of the DEQ petroleum storage tank program. This helped Bristol Brass to realize significant savings in cleanup costs and made purchasing the property economically feasible.
Upon Bristol Brass and Copper’s purchase of the property, HSMM prepared contract documents and work plans for removal of the drums, tank closure and demolition, and defined areas requiring limited soil removal. HSMM then coordinated with the third-party remediation contractor performing the work. Initial data from the Phase II ESA was used to demonstrate that there was no significant risk to the environment and that no additional corrective actions were required.
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