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My firm has subcontracted HSA Golden for Phase II Environmental Site Assessment services on multiple occasions over the past several years. Their staff is highly competent, diligent, and professional, and their work product is consistently thorough. I look forward to many more years of collaboration with HSA Golden.
Laura Vedral, LEP
Environmental Scientist / Managing Member
Precision Environmental Assessments, LLC
Construction & Demolition Recycling
Brian Taylor
March/April 2010
In the few years that he has owned Orange County Environmental LLC, Apopka, Fla., founder Tony Wibbeler has introduced a variety of services designed to capture market share. Services provided include: acceptance of mixed C&D materials for a tipping fee to be either landfilled or sorted and processed; waste hauling to serve a customer base of contractors and industrial locations; site work services such as grading; and environmental services such as designing and preparing stormwater treatment systems and placement and pick-up of portable toilets.
Mixed C&D recycling services recently offered by Orange County Environmental include menus of programs designed to provide LEED – Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design – oriented options to the Central Florida market. These programs include: (1) a basic recycling package that provides a letter of recycling verification; (2) a gold package for those requiring a 75 percent recycling rate and a level of documentation with times and dates and specific materials tracking; and (3) a platinum package that can include source-separation, on-site labor, and documentation including photos for each container as it leaves the job site.
OCE also has a very unique way of handling gypsum that no one else does. In addition, the sorting and processing system creates an alternative landfill cover product that can be used by OCE. “The dirt ‘unders’ byproduct from our system is ideal as C&D landfill cover, reducing our need to extract natural dirt products from the ground unnecessarily,” says Wibbeler.
HSA Golden is proud to work closely with OCE in providing engineering design, permitting, monitoring, and other environmental services and have worked closely with Tony Wibbeler and his staff since 2007. See the complete article, and find out more about Tony and OCE, HERE.
The infamous Fresh Kills Landfill, a 150-foot-high mountain of waste material in Staten Island, New York, is getting a makeover. That makeover is Freshkills Park, a 2,200-acre park complete with meadows and wetlands. The project is expected to take decades, but a small part may be open within the next few years.
Projects like this aren’t new; in fact, landfill redevelopment as parks and recreational areas has been around for a long time. Locally, HSA Golden professionals have been involved in similar landfill projects, including the Evans Street Landfill in Oviedo and the Lake Destiny Soccer Field in Maitland. Such reuse isn’t only smart, it’s incented at both the federal and state level through initiatives such as the Brownfields Program.
Read more about the Fresh Kills Landfill at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/nyregion/26bird.html?th&emc=th
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Mufson and David A. Fahrenthold – Washington Post
December 8, 2009
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration yesterday moved closer to issuing regulations on greenhouse gases, a step that would enable it to limit emissions across the economy even if Congress failed to enact climate legislation.
The move, which coincided with the first day of the international climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, seemed timed to reassure delegates there that the United States was committed to reducing its emissions even if domestic legislation remained bogged down . . .
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/20091208_EPA_takes_step_on_greenhouse_gases.html
Orlando Business Journal
Anjali Fluker
November 27-December 3, 2009
Settlement with environmental groups irk local developers, DEP
. . . the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing new stormwater runoff rules that could make doing business more expensive for Florida land developers . . . At issue: Stormwater runoff — when excess water from rain or irrigation flows from land into ponds, lakes, rivers, streams and coastal waters — generally contains pollutants such as nitrogen and phosphorus from pesticides, herbicides, fertilizer and animal manure. These nutrients can render water unfit for drinking, as well as kill wildlife and cause toxic algae blooms.
So Oakland, Calif.-based law firm Earthjustice, which represented the Florida Wildlife Federation, Conservancy of Southwest Florida, Sierra Club, St. Johns Riverkeeper and Ecoswift, sued the EPA in mid-2008. The suit alleged the EPA wasn’t enforcing the federal Clean Water Act strongly enough in Florida, which resulted in some of the poorest water quality in the nation.
http://orlando.bizjournals.com/orlando/stories/2009/11/30/story7.html?b=1259557200^2501981
The Miami Herald
Nirvi Shah
November 24, 2009
The federal government has linked some Chinese drywall to corrosion found in homes in South Florida and across the country, but questions remain about what steps need to be taken in order to fix the problem . . . .
The Ledger / NYT Regional Media Group
Donna Kelly
August 3, 2009
WINTER HAVEN | The owner of the former Vigoro fertilizer plant property on U.S. 17 and Orlando-based Benge Development are working with Winter Haven officials to create a mixed-use development at the location near the Lulu-Shipp canal bridge. When completed, the location will offer an aesthetically pleasing blend of office and retail establishments and multi-family homes . . .
WasteAge.com
Michael Fickes
October 2009
WCA Waste is Tom Fatjo, Jr.’s fourth waste startup in 53 years. Five years after taking the firm public, he now has it poised to establish a national market presence.
http://wasteage.com/Collections_And_Transfer/wca-waste-tom-fatjo-200910/index.html
Orlando Sentinel / Associated Press
Bill Kaczor
November 17, 2009
TALLAHASSEE — The federal government will attempt to set Florida’s water pollution standards – the first time it will try that for any state – under an agreement approved [November 16, 2009] . . . .
epaper.orlandosentinel.com/OS/OS/2009/11/17/index.shtml?Search=Y&ArtId=111_003
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