BergerWorld: 2nd Quarter 2006

Berger was selected by the town of Dover, NJ, and a private real estate development company to conduct a Baseline Ecological Evaluation, provide closure services, and assist in the redevelopment of the town's former municipal landfill. The 75-acre property was used to dispose solid and vegetative waste until the 1970s. Berger examined the site for potential contaminant migration-as evidenced by dead vegetation, discolored soil or water, absence of biota, or presence of a seep or discharge-and submitted the results to the NJDEP. Berger engineers and geologists also collected and analyzed soil, ground and surface water, and sediment samples to assess the current environmental conditions, and assisted in permitting. Berger provided the landfill closure services, creating valuable space for redevelopment that will bring an important ratable and hundreds of new jobs to the area. A FedEx Ground Distribution Facility is now being built on an excavated portion of landfill, including an underground passive gas collection system, and an office building and hotel are planned for the balance of the site.