Brownfield Redevelopment
The Greenbrier Environmental Group Brownfields Team has extensive experience managing and executing United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) brownfields grants and individual projects for government entities and organizations of varying populations and capacities across West Virginia. GEG has authored successful brownfields grants and managed all phases of grant implementation. GEG’s Brownfield Team has completed all eligible assessment grant services such as Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs), Phase II ESAs, asbestos surveys, mold surveys, radon studies, lead paint surveys, site disposition studies, market feasibility studies, and re-use planning reports. GEG has also remediated sites using USEPA Brownfields Cleanup grant funds.
GEG’s Licensed Remediation Specialists (LRSs) have managed USEPA Brownfield grants including USEPA-compliance assessment reports and supporting documentation, ACRES data entry and maintenance, quarterly performance reporting in the USEPA ACRES system, and ASAP.gov drawdowns. GEG’s LRSs also manage sites in the WVDEP’s Voluntary Remediation Program (VRP), which is critical to ensuring efficient approval of plans in reports submitted to the USEPA and the WVDEP under the Presumptive Conformance Program (PCP).
Selected Project Highlights
Former Lewisburg Wholesale Building Site, Ronceverte, WV
GEG staff worked with the Ronceverte Development Corporation to remediate the site in order to make way for new economic development and community enhancement. USPEPA Cleanup Grant funds were utilized to address surface and subsurface soil impacts, as well as groundwater impacts, at the subject site via the WVDEP VRP. Volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds and heavy metals are present in surface and subsurface soils, and in groundwater. Six heavy metals (arsenic, chromium, cobalt, lead, mercury, vanadium) were detected in soils at levels exceeding USEPA Regional Screening Levels based on industrial land use and/or protection of groundwater.
GEG has coordinated the design of a Pickleball Court and parking area that will serve as the cap for the site. GEG also applied to other granting organization to obtain adequate funding to construct the pickleball courts, projected to be completed in 2026.
Former Hinton Ice House Site, Hinton, WV
In 2025, GEG staff completed remediation of the site in order to make way for new economic development and community enhancement. USEPA Cleanup funds were utilized to address surface and subsurface soil impacts at the subject site via the WVDEP VRP. Semi-volatile organic compounds and heavy metals are present in surface and subsurface soils. No groundwater is present. The site was covered and is being used as a parking area for the adjacent train depot.