Brownfields Revitalization
Commercial and industrial properties that are underutilized because of contamination from prior use are a community burden. When these “brownfields” lie vacant, communities suffer from a loss of jobs as well as tax base. Redeveloping brownfields sites encourages better patterns of urban growth because contaminated lands are cleaned up, more efficient use is made of existing infrastructure, and an alternative is provided to developing farmland and other greenfield sites.
Within Ontario, new legislative and regulatory requirements have been put in place to help encourage the cleanup and redevelopment of brownfields sites, while ensuring protection of the environment. Through the Brownfields Statute Law Amendment Act, 2001, changes have been made to existing Acts to establish clear rules for assessment and cleanup of brownfields sites, and to reduce the potential liability from orders for property owners, municipalities, secured creditors and others engaged in investigation and cleanup of such sites.
Intera has been instrumental in helping to clean up contaminated urban sites to make way for new commercial and residential development. Our professional and engineering staff has provided leadership in the revitalization of brownfields sites in several major urban centres in Ontario and elsewhere in North America. Our environmental site assessments identify potential liability and provide a framework for strategic planning and critical decisions. We quickly and accurately define problems and design solutions that work for our clients as well as for regulatory agencies. Our recognized expertise in risk assessment ensures that cleanup plans are cost effective and include the best balance of active remedial methods and risk management/ monitoring approaches for brownfields sites.
Our brownfields revitalization experience includes:
- Development of site remediation program plans for redevelopment of 70 hectares of former industrial and commercial land in Lebreton Flats, City of Ottawa
- Phase I and Phase II environmental site assessment of the Port Industrial Lands and East Bayfront, City of Toronto on behalf of the Royal Commission on the Future of the Toronto Waterfront.
- Human health and ecological risk assessments for metal, heavy petroleum hydrocarbon and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon soil contamination at municipal brownfields sites
- Development and implementation of area-wide groundwater initiatives for the Port Industrial Area and West Don Lands, City of Toronto
- Development of soil and groundwater management strategy for 700 hectares of former industrial and commercial land comprising the Lower Don Lands in the City of Toronto for The Waterfront Regeneration Trust
- Turn-key building demolition, site remediation and site-specific risk assessment for redevelopment of former industrial sites, City of Kingston
- Evaluation of bench- and pilot-scale soil treatment technologies for contaminated soils at brownfields sites
Intera News & Updates
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22/03/2010 Intera wins 3-year contract for gas transport modelling of the Lasgit Experiment (Large Scale Gas Injection Test).
12/02/2010
3 years and 5000 metres later: drilling at DGR is now complete.
25/02/2010
Dr. Robert Walsh provides mView and TOUGH2 training to Nippon-Koei Research Division in Tsukuba-shi, Japan.
28/01/2010
New Website released.
