Environmental Call-In Services Provide Environmental Support to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

WESTON is currently providing environmental services on a "call-in" basis to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.  Projects performed to date include Port Newark, Elizabeth Port Authority Marine Terminal, Newark Airport, JFK International Airport, Goethals Bridge, George Washington Bridge, Lincoln Tunnel, Holland Tunnel, and PATH.

These projects were varied in nature and have included remedial investigations, groundwater quality modeling, compliance audits, ecological risk assessment, regulatory (NJDEP/NYSDEC) reporting, and asbestos monitoring.  WESTON has also attended and participated in numerous project meetings and presentations involving the evaluation of new sediment/water/ groundwater pumping technology, groundwater treatment systems, and deicing technologies as they may be applied at Port Authority sites in New Jersey and New York, and has provided input on dredging issues and technology to key Port Authority personnel.

On one project, WESTON prepared an environmental assessment report and cost estimate for the Port Authority to perform limited remediation of potentially contaminated sediments associated with Sherman Creek in upper Manhattan.  The Sherman Creek site was a brownfield redevelopment project that was being spearheaded by the Port Authority’s Economic Redevelopment Department on behalf of the Manhattan Borough President’s Office.

WESTON has routinely prepared and implemented work plans for remedial investigations and baseline investigations of the Port Newark and Elizabeth Port Authority Marine Terminal sites.  These investigations are performed prior to new tenants occupying, and after tenants have vacated, Port Authority sites and involve sampling/analysis, and evaluation of sediments, soil, and groundwater, diurnal tidal studies, and contaminant migration studies.

At another site, WESTON prepared a groundwater reclassification petition for submission to NJDEP for Newark Airport to reclassify groundwater from Class IIA to IIB.  This project involved compiling extensive quantities of groundwater data, statistical analysis, and contamination plume modeling in a tidally influenced aquifer.

WESTON has successfully provided environmental call-in services to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for over 10 years.