Remediation-and-Redevelopment (2024)

FAQs

How does remediation work? ›

In situ remediation involves treating the contaminated area directly by injecting chemicals into the soil or groundwater, while ex situ remediation involves removing contaminated material from the site for treatment off-site. Depending on the type and severity of contamination, one or both methods may be employed.

Site-remediation is the process of removing polluted or contaminated soil, sediment, surface water, or groundwater, to reduce the impact on people or the environment.

The Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund Program is a loan and grant program to investigate and remediate contaminated sites. The Brownfield Reimbursem*nt Fund Program reimburses developers up to 75% of remediation costs based on certain new taxes that are generated from a brownfield project.

The Brownfields Act encourages each municipality, through its zoning and planning powers, to identify and classify Brownfields sites in its community. Brownfields sites may be either publicly or privately owned.

Remediation stands quite apart from restoration. This term applies to the thorough removal of pollutants or other potential contaminants from various types of location, to ensure ongoing safety.

Remediation handles the cleanup from the damage that has occurred; restoration begins the process of repairing the damage and returning the habitat, house, or business facility to its initial state.

Land remediation encompasses various techniques tailored to the specific nature and extent of contamination. Excavation and Removal: This involves physically removing contaminated soil or materials from the site and transporting them to appropriate disposal facilities.

To remediate is to correct or make right. If you accidentally ran over your neighbor's bike with your car, you could remediate the bad situation by paying for the bike's repair.

"Brownfield" is the technical name for an underused or abandoned industrial or commercial property. Brownfields can range from old factories to vacant warehouses; from defunct gas stations to former dry cleaning establishments.

What is the difference between brownfield and greenfield? ›

A brownfield development is any project built on land that has previously been developed, while a greenfield development is a project that will occupy a space that has not been previously developed.

Common examples of brownfields include former: Gas stations. Auto repair shops. Dry cleaners.

The construction of new single family houses and additions and improvement to existing ones within freshwater wetlands, transition areas, and/or State open waters requires a Freshwater Wetlands (FWW) permit or a FWW Transition Area waiver.

reducing blight and improving the local environment by cleaning up contamination, ▪ moving abandoned or underused sites into beneficial reuses, and ▪ reducing sprawl and preserving greenspace. Brownfields can be redeveloped by private developers, local governments or through public-private partnerships.

How many contaminated sites are there in NJ? Are they all brownfields? At any one time, the NJDEP oversees some 23,000 contaminated sites. An estimated 10,000 of these are potential brownfield sites.

The vulnerability remediation process is a workflow that fixes or neutralizes detected weaknesses including bugs and vulnerabilities. It includes 4 steps: finding vulnerabilities through scanning and testing, prioritising, fixing, and monitoring vulnerabilities.

Leaseholder protections came into force on 28 June 2022. From that date, for buildings over 11 metres/five storeys in height, building owners and developers are now the first port of call to pay for the remediation of historical building safety defects.