Port Authority of New York and New Jersey General Environmental Engineering Services

HMM was awarded a “Call-in” Contract with the Port Authority Engineering Department for the year 1993. This contract has been subsequently renewed through 2009. HMM has provided the Port Authority with comprehensive and local resources needed to address a wide range of environmental issues and tasks:

• Performed due diligence assessments of properties in NJ and NY
• Assessment, investigation and remediation in support of a Brownfield Redevelopment project involving a 130-acre former industrial facility in Staten Island
• Conducted a detailed investigation of the Port Authority’s PATH subway system in order to find the sources of high zinc concentrations in the PATH DSW discharges. The sources were identified and readily corrected. Prepared permit applications for stormwater permits and wetlands permits
• Prepared a DPCC/SPCC plan for Port Authority facilities at Newark International Airport
• Provided field oversight and reporting services in connection with the abatement of lead contaminated soils associated with former bridge re-painting activities at multiple sites
• Provided field oversight for the cleanup of PCB contaminated soils in Bayonne, New Jersey
• Completed the survey of all Port Authority facilities and prepared Community Right-to-Know reports (for calendar years 1993 through 2008) utilizing a custom-designed software system
• Performed compliance audits of Port Authority facilities in New York and New Jersey
• Performed an EIS of five sites for the New York-New Jersey Harbor Navigation Study
• Conducted a review of dioxin data for New York Harbor and Newark Bay in connection with an upstream CERCLA site (former Diamond Shamrock dioxin site) in support of the Authority’s dredging interests.
• Prepared an EO215 Environmental Impact Statement and wetland survey for improvements to the North Avenue access roadway near Newark Airport
• Investigated potential direct and indirect sources of discharge to the Newark Airport Peripheral Ditch System, and identified multiple potential of contaminants in the Ditch sediments
• Provided assistance at 50 Port Newark/ Elizabeth UST locations where HMM observed the removal or abandonment in place of the USTs.  Subsequent phases of this project included the installation and samplings of soil borings and wells to delineate previously identified impacts and to document the lack of same, free product recovery, performance of fate and transport analyses, and preparation of Deed Notices and Classification Exception Area (CEA) proposals
• Conducted remedial planning and oversight at UST locations at the bulk fuel storage facility at JFK Airport