Environmental Site Assessment Services

The purpose of an Environmental Site Assessment (or ESA) is to assess a site for environmental liabilities, regulatory compliance, liability reduction, and/or potential site restoration. Knowing and understanding the environmental liabilities associated with a property purchase can help create a wise investment. Unknowingly investing in property with environmental liabilities is a risky and sometimes extremely expensive venture.

Highlands Environmental Solutions, Inc. has conducted hundreds of ESAs throughout the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. At sites where environmental liabilities may exits, we employ invasive and non-invasive technologies to assess the severity of impact to the soil, groundwater and surface water by regulated constituents (petroleum, pesticides, chlorinated solvents, metals, nitrates, etc.). Effectively combining in-house capabilities with our network of subcontracted services, we are able to provide site assessment services to meet applicable regulatory and industry standard requirements, as well as, each client's unique goals and budgets.

Our site assessment services include:

• Phase I, II and III Environmental Site Assessments
• Due Diligence Audits
• Merger and Acquisition Audits
• Rapid Assessment/Audit Services
• Property Imaging
• Soil and Groundwater Sampling
• Feasibility Studies
• Groundwater and Contaminant Modeling
• Indoor Air Quality Assessments
• Brownfields Assessments
• Water Quality Assessments
• FHA Water Quality Assessments
• Facility Compliance Audits
• State Trust Fund Reimbursements
• Conceptual Site Design
• Wetlands Assessments
• Geotechnical Evaluation
• Property Appraisals
• Risk-Based Corrective Action Measures
• Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Soil and Groundwater Assessment Services

Soil and groundwater impacted by regulated compounds (petroleum, chlorinated solvents, metals, nitrates, etc.) can pose a significant risk to human health and the environment. Additionally, contamination serves as a costly liability to business and property owners, and lending institutions.

Highlands Environmental Solutions has the expertise and experience necessary to assess the extent and/or severity of contaminated media. Proper planning increases the efficiency of our assessments, while ensuring that the scope of work addresses the regulatory requirements established for the individual incident.

Our staff of professionals has extensive training and experience in performing surface and subsurface investigations. Our capabilities include (but are not limited to):

• Monitoring well installation
• Soil sampling and contaminant characterization
• Innovative sampling and field screening techniques
• Horizontal and vertical delineation of contaminated soil and groundwater
• Groundwater testing and monitoring
• Aquifer testing, characterization and modeling
• Contaminant fate and transport modeling
• DNAPL and LNAPL assessment and recovery
• Geophysical testing
• Water quality testing
• Human and Ecological Risk Assessment