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Project Name: Brown & Keener Urban Design
Location of Work: Borough of Manville, New Jersey
Work Scope: Excel Environmental Resources, Inc. (Excel) was retained
by Brown & Keener Urban Design to perform an Environmental Site Assessment
(ESA) of the Borough of Manville in support of development of the Borough's
Revitalization Strategy and Redevelopment Plans. The objective of the
ESA was to identify properties within the Main Street Redevelopment Area
that may require investigation and/or remediation prior to implementation
of construction activities associated with the Borough's Redevelopment
Plan for the Main Street corridor. To assess the potential environmental
risk associated with more than 75 properties located within the study
area, Excel conducted a preliminary evaluation of the environmental condition
of the property and ranked the properties based on known and/or potential
contamination for use by the Redevelopment Team during the final stages
of developing the Revitalization Strategy. Excel worked closely with the
Borough's representatives, the land planners, engineers, architects, and
local and state agency representatives throughout the project and provided
expert environmental consultation during key planning sessions.
Following are key aspects of the project:
Excel conducted a detailed review of historic documents, environmental
database records, Sanborn™ Maps, and historic aerial photographs, and
interviewed local agency representatives in order to obtain as much information
as possible regarding each property.
Excel evaluated the historic information and identified issues of potential
environmental concern associated with several properties located within
the Main Street corridor area.
Excel participated in a comprehensive tour of Manville for field verification
of the information obtained through review of historic information. The
field tour was used to supplement the findings of the historic document
review with visual evidence of potential issues of environmental concern.
Excel prepared a report summarizing the findings of the ESA with graphics
suitable for use by other professionals working on the Revitalization
Strategy and to assist in communicating the outcome of the ESA during
public meetings.
Excel provided technical and strategic consultation to the Redevelopment
Team to incorporate the ESA findings into the draft and final concept
plans for the Main Street Revitalization Strategy.
Project Outcome: The findings of the ESA were incorporated into
the final Revitalization Strategy and Excel provided creative solutions
for management of potentially contaminated properties, including strategies
for incorporation of potential environmental compliance activities into
redevelopment plans for known contaminated properties and innovative recommendations
for streamlining the investigative and/or cleanup process for problems
that may be encountered as development proceeds.
Client Contact: Mark R. Keener, Brown & Keener Urban Design (215)751-1133
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