In order to enhance the value of the Port Liberté development and create a recreational amenity on a fallow parcel of contaminated property, Applied entered into a joint venture with the neighboring industrial landowners for the development of a golf course on the site of an abandoned oil tank storage facility. The development effort required the remediation of over 100 acres of property contaminated with a variety of compounds including hydrocarbons, chromium and chlorinated solvents. In addition, the task was made exponentially harder by the fact that the property is located in a sensitive waterfront location and thus raised many collateral issues such as impact to wetlands, threatened and endangered species and tidal ecosystems. A strategy was devised to cap the contaminated upland soils in place and treat the groundwater over time. Wetlands were enhanced and buffer zones were created to protect sensitive ecological areas. Applied spearheaded and coordinated the entire permitting process, successfully obtaining all governmental approvals from the City, State and Army Corps of Engineers without removing a single truckload of dirt from the site. Over the years, Applied has converted many other formerly industrial sites into productive new uses including the conversion of the former Bethlehem Steel Shipyards in Hoboken and Stokley Van Camp factory in Trenton.
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