West Coast Environmental offers a variety of services to assist lending institutions, legal firms, real estate brokers, developers and other parties involved in real estate property transactions. Our Phase I Environmental Site Assessments generally exceed the ASTM Standards for site assessment; WCE customizes the assessment based on the property and client requirements. Our staff has extensive experience in collecting and reviewing agency documents, aerial photographs historic maps (Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, topographic maps), archival directories and other historical information essential to evaluating previous land use and identifying environmental liabilities and concerns.

Environmental Assessment & Characterization

Completing an environmental site assessment is the best way to assess the potential environmental liabilities associated with real property acquisition and ownership. The information collected during environmental site assessment can impact the economics of a property transaction affecting the owner, buyer, seller and lender. With over 1000 projects completed WCE can perform all aspects of the site assessment and characterization of your property, these services include:

Preliminary Environmental Site Assessments (Phase I) Soil and

Groundwater

Sampling Assessment (Phase II)

Remediation (Phase III)

Risk Based Corrective Action (RBCA)

Site Conceptual Models

 

Regulatory Reports

Environmental assessment often leads to involvement with regulatory agencies at federal, state and local levels. WCE is uniquely qualified and experienced with interacting with and meeting the requirements of the regulatory agencies. Typical agency process include:

Preliminary Endangerment Assessments

(PEA) Process Feasibility Studies

Corrective Action Plans

Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund Assistance

DTSC, RWQCB, County & City Environmental Health Divisions and Fire

Departments

 

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