February 2nd, 2010
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
Posted in Articles, Projects |
February 1st, 2010
Pete,
Thank you and the staff at HSA Golden for your work on our UST site investigation project. You have been very accommodating to our schedule and demands, and your work on the project has been instrumental in helping us move this project through the local environmental agency and helping us to achieve the desired outcome with that agency. Our previous consultant was not able to accomplish this. Thanks to your work, we have reduced our groundwater monitoring from quarterly to semi-annually and are thus saving money. It is my pleasure to recommend you and HSA Golden for any project for which you are technically qualified.
Russell Strader
Environmental Manager
Boise Cascade, L.L.C.
Posted in Testimonials |
January 12th, 2010
HSA Golden has been retained by GreenGas Americas to perform carbon credit feasibility studies for up to eight palm oil mills within the Fedepalma Sectoral CDM Umbrella Project in Colombia, South America.
The project involves evaluations of mill operational conditions, review of palm oil mill effluent (POME) data, and interviews with mill operators. The objective of the studies is to rank the sites based on: (1) accessibility to existing anaerobic lagoons; (2) site operation readiness; (3) POME effluent specifications; and (4) digester retention time.
Posted in HSA Golden News |
December 15th, 2009
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
Posted in Technical |
December 1st, 2009
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
Posted in Technical |
November 24th, 2009
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 . . . .
http://www.miamiherald.com/business/story/1349057.html
Posted in Technical |
November 23rd, 2009
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 . . .
http://www.theledger.com/article/20090803/news/908035079?Title=Old-Vigoro-Plant-Will-Be-Part-Of-New-Development-Plan
Posted in Projects |
November 23rd, 2009
Mid-Florida Materials, a division of Hubbard Construction Company, owns and operates a 220-acre, C&D landfill in northwestern Orange County, Florida. HSA Golden has provided Mid-Florida Materials with environmental consulting services since 2004.
Specifically, the services that HSA Golden currently provides for us include: environmental compliance and permitting; landfill engineering and design services; groundwater and landfill gas quality testing; and odor control/gas collection services.
We are pleased to have them on our team and highly recommend them to others.
Sincerely,
Dennis Severance
Manager
Mid-Florida Materials
Posted in Testimonials |
November 23rd, 2009
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
Posted in Clients |
November 23rd, 2009
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
Posted in Technical |
