1. Sustainable Redevelopment
Holland BPW Energy Park
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2. Contents Project Planning & Tracking Project Overview
Starting Point – Measure your Baselines
Envision® Credits (Goals)
Project Overview
ERM’s Role
Sustainable Redevelopment Practices
Implementing Sustainable Practices
Recycling materials
Preserve habitats
Think local
Attention to details

3. Project Planning & Tracking
Starting Point - Measure Baselines
Environmental Baselines
Soil & Groundwater
Phase I (initial site review)
Phase II’s (soil & groundwater samples)
BEA’s (protection from historic contamination)
Biodiversity Study – Existing Species & Habitats
Wetlands & waterbodies
Threatened & endangered species
Invasive species
Noise Monitoring – Local Traffic / Industrial / etc.
Vibration Monitoring
Explain what PH 1/2/BEAs are. Also, explain how this differs from a typical project (e.g., we wouldn’t likely be doing a biodiversity study but possibly noise and vibration monitoring)

4. Project Planning & Tracking
Envision® Credits
Understanding the credits and categories that apply to the work. HBPW needed us track our work for the following credits:
Quality of Life
Develop Local Skills and Capabilities
Resource Allocation
Use Regional Materials
Divert Waste From Landfills
Reduce Excavated Materials Taken Off-Site
Protect Fresh Water Availability
Natural World
Preserve Wetlands and Surface Water
Preserve Greenfields
Prevent Surface and Groundwater Contamination

5. Project Planning & Tracking
Envision® Credits
Natural World (continued)
Preserve species biodiversity
Control invasive species
Action plans should be produced for each category before work starts to know what to track during the project.
*It’s hard to go back and get documentation after the project is complete

6. Project Area – How do we get here?
Holland Energy Park Earns Envision® Platinum Award

7. Redevelopment Area – 20 Acres Mixed Use
Industrial
Wetland
Residential
Commercial
Trash Dump

8. Project Overview ERM’s Role Initial Environmental Site Assessments
Building Materials Characterization
Biodiversity Study
Decontamination, Demolition, & Disposal (“DDD”)
Soil Remediation

9. ERM’s Role Initial Environmental Site Assessments
To assess risks on each property and for clean-up liability protection
Phase I’s / Phase II’s / BEA’s
Get involved early - as properties are acquired
Qualified as a “Brownfield” under Envision®
Due care plans for contaminated properties to mitigate risk
Contamination plume migration notices under Part 201
Building Materials Characterization
Asbestos surveys
Lead based paint surveys
Survey of abandoned containers with hazardous substances
Test concrete & bricks for reuse (crushing)

10. Initial Site Assessments

11. Building Material Characterization

12. ERM’s Role Biodiversity Study – Identify & Protect Habitats
Perform a desktop habitat and species assessment
Regulated wetlands assessment
Threatened and endangered species assessment
Perform on-site habitat and species assessments
Wetland delineations
Bird & amphibian surveys
Invasive species
Reed canary grass
Phragmites
Giant knotweed = big problem

13. Biodiversity Study - Habitats

14. Biodiversity Study – Bird Survey

15. Biodiversity Study – Bird Survey

16. Biodiversity Study – Bird Survey

17. Biodiversity Study – Frog Survey

18. Biodiversity Study – Giant Knotweed

19. ERM’s Role (continued)
Decontamination, Demolition, Disposal (“DDD”)
Scope of Work / Permits / Contracting / Health & Safety Planning
Asbestos & lead abatement
Dust & noise monitoring
Soil erosion & sediment control
Universal waste removal (fluorescent bulbs, mercury switches, etc.)
Water well abandonments
Clearing & grubbing
Demolition of ~30 buildings/structures
Recycling materials
Invasive species control
Site restoration
Documentation

20. DDD - Plan
Save These Buildings
Save These Trees

21. DDD

22. DDD

23. DDD

24. Soil Remediation Soil Capping Former gas station along Chicago Drive
Petroleum impacted soils were capped in place rather than sent to a landfill

25. Sustainable Redevelopment Practices
Divert Waste From Landfills
Most materials can be recycled (83% achieved)
Concrete = crush it
Metal = sort it and recycle
Trees & brush = chip it on-site and use it as mulch
Logs & stumps = donate for wetlands, parks, firewood
Tires = recycle (chips for playgrounds, etc.)
HBPW offered the public a chance to reclaim household items
Protect Surface Water and Groundwater
Soil erosion and sediment controls – silt fence and wattles
Dust monitoring – 4 stations recorded conditions
Abandon old groundwater wells – prevent aquifer contamination

26. Sustainable Redevelopment Practices
Use Regional Materials
Imported sand and topsoil - was sourced locally
Looked at possibly using Lake Macatawa dredged sand; however, it didn’t meet the engineering requirements
Reduce Excavated Materials Taken Off-Site
Reused excavated soils on-site during demolition
Some contaminated soil could stay and be capped, others removed
Preserve Wetlands and Surface Water
Removed 15 tons of trash / debris from wetlands
Treated invasive species

27. Sustainable Redevelopment Practices
Attention to Details
Honeybees were discovered a few times during the project
A local beekeeper was hired to relocate the bees

28. The End
Questions?