Terradex serves private parties and
government agencies to assure safe development and use of
contaminated properties. The company's monitoring and alerting solution
continuously checks a broad array of land use activities at and
around these properties. If Terradex detects a potentially
inappropriate land use, Terradex proactively alerts the parties
involved such as developers, owners, occupants and regulators.
This early warning allows the parties to avert exposure or damage
before an encounter with buried environmental pollution,
breach on an institutional control, or damage to an engineered
control. Technology is at the core of all these offerings.
Terradex has made extensive investments in technology and
intellectual property. All of Terradex technology is
patent-pending.
Terradex's technology is the basis of
four services available across the United States:
- Institutional Control and
Engineering Control Monitoring Service for the Responsible
Parties: Institutional controls and engineered controls are
the backbone of the long term remediation efforts at contaminated
sites. For a single site or portfolio of sites, in one or
multiple states, Terradex will collect land activity and use
data, then compare the data to the restrictions within an
institutional control or the specifications of an engineered
control. Not only does this process increase an institutional
control's effectiveness or help increase the reliability of
engineered controls, it also builds a compliance record. With
this service, the fulfillment of post-closure obligations can
be;more reliable, protective and cost-effective. The service
has been applied to leaking underground storage tank sites,
brownfield sites, landfills, or federal-lead sites.
- Appropriate Care /
Continuing Obligations for the Landowner: Terradex provides
technology and field services to support fulfilling the CERCLA
Continuing Obligations expected of property owners. Whether the
owner qualifies as a bona fide prospective purchaser, contiguous
property owner or innocent landowner, each holds an important
interest in assuring that the Continuing Obligations are
fulfilled. Terradex will track institutional controls, monitor
inspections of engineered controls, monitor physical occupancy of
a property, and inspect recording status of an institutional
control. These are common elements of landowner responsibility to
maintain a defense from CERCLA liability. Quite often states
expect similar representations to provide equivalent state
liability protection. These services can be tracked in one or
multiple sites.
- Brownfield Redevelopment
Services for Government: Terradex works with federal, state
and local agencies to assist in the operation of institutional
control tracking. At a state level this includes a work flow
between local government and state agencies to efficiently allow
efficient state participation in local development review of
institutional control implementation. Terradex can also provide
community notification, when institutional controls are applied,
and notice provisions need implementation. At a local level,
Terradex's technology provides a mechanism for redevelopment
agencies to enforce institutional control when active,
large-scale development occurs. Terradex's technology can
become part of an agency's existing information services; or
be a stand alone web-based service.
- Environmental
Notifications to One Call Systems: State laws typically
require owners of monitoring wells, engineering controls and any
underground facility to monitor and clear excavations with the
state-sanctioned utility clearance systems. Several responsible
parties also use one call systems to prevent excavation into
zones of environmental contamination associated with
institutional controls. Terradex serves as an agent for the
owner. Terradex staff will load the boundary of the engineered
control or institutional control into the utility clearance
system, will review notices generated by the one-call system, and
provide a positive response to the excavator with required
clearance information.
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