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Keys to a Successful Brownfield Project: • Build Community Support – Reach out to residents, regulatory agencies, and local authorities to hear their concerns and help them understand the benefits of the project. • Solidify the Team – Define the role of each stakeholder, including the environmental engineers, civil engineers, contractors, and internal representatives. Involve them all in the early stages of planning, and communicate, communicate, communicate throughout the project. • Understand the Full Costs – Identify or estimate the environmental risks, minimize the unknowns, investigate potential funding sources, and look into environmental insurance. • Incorporate Environmental Remediation into Construction Plans – Involve the environmental engineers in construction planning so that the remedial action plans can take advantage of new structures to assist in the remediation. Plan and budget for the “what ifs.” The interior of the partially-completed store awaiting the concrete slab floor that doubles as a cap for contaminated soil. derstanding of the nature and extent of contamination improves the chances that a site can move smoothly through the transfer, remediation, and redevelopment process. Initial investigations at the Ansonia site revealed a number of areas of historic contamination. Many of these were the result of uses long past and actually represented very little risk to the environment or human health as long as they remained undisturbed. Nonetheless, any contamination raises liability questions and can significantly complicate property transfer. The landowner hired Woodard & Curran to perform extensive site characterization studies and estimate remediation costs for the property. This information allowed the owner to market the lot and negotiate the property transfer. The owner and consultant team also took the remedial action plan to the state environmental agency and got a strong, albeit informal, approval of the approach. The process was somewhat simplified by the fact that officials in Ansonia were very interested in redeveloping the property and hopeful that a buyer could be The SNOUT® + Bio-Skirt® An Innovative Solution to Clean Up Stormwater Pollution irt Bio-Skasy an e r is fo retrofit + 35,000 s in SNOUT e! rvic se The SNOUT® is the robust, eld-proven name you know and trust. BMP's new Bio-Skirt® is the accessory you need to reduce bacteria and adsorb oils in stormwater inlets. Best Management Products, Inc. Call us at 800.504.8008 or Learn more at bmpinc.com Circle 144 • or www.SLDTonline.com/webcard www.SLDTonline.com 39 http://bmpinc.com http://bmpinc.com http://www.SLDTonline.com/webcard http://www.SLDTonline.com

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Sustainable Land Development Today - September 2008

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