Phase I Environmental Site Assessment in Bloomfield, NJ
Bloomfield sits within one of northern New Jersey’s most established commercial and redevelopment markets, positioned in Essex County with access to the Garden State Parkway, Route 3, Route 21, and the broader Newark and New York metropolitan area. Property owners, developers, contractors, municipalities, lenders, and counsel working across Essex County and surrounding North Jersey communities rely on focused environmental due diligence because Bloomfield has a long history of manufacturing, industrial activity, transportation infrastructure, commercial development, and redevelopment. Resource Renewal supports these projects through RCC’s ASTM E1527-21 Phase I Environmental Site Assessment scope, layered with NJDEP-compliant Preliminary Assessments to address both federal and New Jersey due diligence requirements.
Resource Renewal connects three service tracks under one platform: ASTM E1527-21 Phase I ESAs and NJDEP Preliminary Assessments delivered by RCC; Phase II Site Investigations and Remedial Investigations when Recognized Environmental Conditions or Areas of Concern warrant further evaluation; and full remediation and brownfield redevelopment delivered with affiliated platform DSR. Project teams can coordinate with the NJDEP Site Remediation Program and pursue site closure under Licensed Site Remediation Professional oversight toward a Response Action Outcome where applicable.
Why Property Owners and Developers in Essex County Choose Resource Renewal
Resource Renewal brings proven brownfield redevelopment experience to Bloomfield, applying the same methodology RCC and DSR use across client sites throughout Essex County and northern New Jersey. Our work supports property owners, developers, and project teams navigating environmental due diligence, site investigation, remediation, and redevelopment from initial assessment through regulatory closure.
- ASTM E1527-21 Phase I Environmental Site Assessment in Bloomfield, NJ
- NJDEP Preliminary Assessment for Essex County properties
- Phase II Site Investigation for RECs & AOCs
- Soil, groundwater & soil vapor investigation
- LSRP-led NJDEP remediation & RAO closure pursuit
- Brownfield remediation & redevelopment via DSR
- Commercial & industrial due diligence across Bloomfield & Essex County
- 30+ years of New Jersey environmental consulting & remediation experience
Environmental Context in Bloomfield and Essex County
Industrial and Commercial Heritage
Bloomfield’s environmental history is closely tied to its three historic waterways, Second River, Third River, and Toney’s Brook, which powered some of the township’s earliest sawmills and gristmills. Paper mills and tanneries followed, and by the nineteenth century Bloomfield had developed into an important manufacturing and commercial center. Later industrial growth included electrical equipment manufacturing, metalworking, chemical use, warehousing, and other factory operations. The former Westinghouse property is one of Bloomfield’s best-known industrial sites and illustrates how legacy manufacturing activity can continue to influence environmental due diligence and redevelopment decades after operations cease.
Current Environmental Profile
Bloomfield contains a mix of active commercial properties, former manufacturing sites, brownfields, underground storage tank facilities, and properties with documented soil or groundwater impacts. NJDEP maintains contaminated-site and institutional-control data for the township through its Site Remediation Profile and Known Contaminated Sites resources. At the former Westinghouse site, investigations documented hazardous substances in soil and groundwater, including volatile organic compounds, arsenic, and radiological contaminants, with leaking underground storage tanks and contaminated soils identified among the sources of groundwater contamination. Bloomfield has also developed a municipal brownfield inventory to identify underused contaminated properties that may be candidates for cleanup and redevelopment.
Real Estate and Development Market
Bloomfield is an established Essex County redevelopment market with access to the Garden State Parkway, Route 3, Route 21, NJ Transit rail service, and the broader Newark and New York metropolitan area. Redevelopment has occurred around transit stations, downtown commercial areas, and former industrial properties. The former Westinghouse site near Watsessing Station became part of a broader transit-oriented redevelopment strategy, illustrating how historically industrial land can be repositioned for new residential and mixed-use purposes after environmental investigation and remediation. The township’s continuing brownfield inventory also reflects an active effort to identify vacant or underutilized contaminated properties with potential for future redevelopment.
Local Regulators, Authorities, and Stakeholders
Environmental projects in Bloomfield can involve municipal, county, state, and federal entities depending on the property and scope of work. NJDEP’s Contaminated Site Remediation & Redevelopment program administers New Jersey’s site-remediation framework, while Licensed Site Remediation Professionals oversee many investigations, remedial actions, and closure efforts. NJDEP mapping and Data Miner resources track known contaminated sites, Classification Exception Areas, deed notices, underground storage tanks, and other environmental controls. Local projects may also involve Bloomfield Township planning, zoning, engineering, environmental, and redevelopment authorities, while Essex County and EPA Region 2 can become involved where their respective jurisdictions apply.
Why This Local Context Matters for Your Project
Bloomfield is not a uniform suburban environmental market. Its mix of former mills, tanneries, manufacturing facilities, commercial corridors, underground storage tanks, transit-oriented redevelopment areas, and legacy industrial properties creates materially different environmental risks from parcel to parcel. A Phase I Environmental Site Assessment should therefore consider historical manufacturing and commercial uses, former industrial operations, petroleum storage, underground storage tanks, Recognized Environmental Conditions, Areas of Concern, NJDEP case history, Classification Exception Areas, deed notices, soil and groundwater impacts, vapor concerns, and nearby contaminated properties. Understanding Bloomfield’s industrial and redevelopment history early can help determine whether an NJDEP Preliminary Assessment, Phase II Site Investigation, Remedial Investigation, remediation, or LSRP involvement may be necessary before acquisition, financing, or redevelopment.
Environmental Services Available to Bloomfield, NJ Projects
Service availability in Bloomfield and throughout Essex County spans two connected tracks: Investigation & Compliance, including transactions, financing, Phase I and Phase II environmental due diligence, NJDEP coordination, and regulatory closure documentation, and Remediation & Redevelopment, including physical cleanup, environmental liability transfer, and conversion of impaired real estate. RCC and DSR jointly support the full project lifecycle, from pre-acquisition due diligence in Bloomfield through LSRP-led investigation, NJDEP coordination, remediation, regulatory closure, and redevelopment.
Phase I Environmental Site Assessment
ASTM E1527-21 Phase I ESA with NJDEP-compliant Preliminary Assessment for commercial, industrial, mixed-use, and redevelopment properties in Bloomfield and throughout Essex County.
Phase II Environmental Site Investigation
Targeted soil, groundwater, and soil vapor investigation with certified laboratory analysis when RECs or AOCs identified during due diligence warrant further evaluation.
Site Investigation
Site characterization, soil sampling, groundwater investigation, and vapor assessment for Bloomfield properties with suspected or confirmed environmental concerns.
Environmental Remediation
In-situ and ex-situ soil and groundwater remediation, vapor mitigation, OM&M, remedial investigation, and pursuit of NJDEP regulatory closure under LSRP oversight.
Regulatory Compliance
Environmental permitting, compliance audits, hazardous waste management, SPCC planning, and NJDEP regulatory coordination for Bloomfield and Essex County projects.
Brownfield Redevelopment
Acquisition, remediation, entitlement, redevelopment planning, and repositioning of environmentally impaired industrial, commercial, and transit-oriented properties through DSR.
Environmental Liability Transfer
DSR-led transaction structures that address environmental obligations and create a defined path toward cleanup, regulatory closure, reuse, and redevelopment.
Landfill Closure & Property Reuse
Landfill closure, post-closure care, long-term stewardship, remediation, and beneficial reuse strategies for environmentally challenged real estate through DSR's TB2G™ model.
How Resource Renewal Serves Bloomfield, NJ
Investigation & Compliance (RCC Track)
The ASTM E1527-21 Phase I ESA scope covers site reconnaissance, historical land-use review, regulatory database searches, agency file review, and key personnel interviews. For Bloomfield and Essex County properties, RCC can pair the federal ASTM scope with an NJDEP-compliant Preliminary Assessment to address New Jersey-specific due diligence and ISRA considerations. When Recognized Environmental Conditions or Areas of Concern are identified, RCC can proceed into Phase II Site Investigation and, where warranted, Remedial Investigation, coordinating soil, groundwater, and vapor sampling, certified laboratory analysis, and data evaluation under NJDEP Site Remediation Program requirements. Documentation is structured to support NJDEP review, LSRP oversight, property transactions, financing, and regulatory closure.
Remediation & Redevelopment (DSR-Affiliated Track)
Remediation capabilities include in-situ chemical oxidation, bioremediation, soil vapor extraction, ex-situ excavation and disposal, groundwater pump-and-treat systems, permeable reactive barriers, sub-slab depressurization, and long-term operations, maintenance, and monitoring (OM&M). For owners, investors, and developers working with environmentally impaired property in Bloomfield, the DSR platform can support brownfield acquisition, environmental liability transfer, remediation, and redevelopment planning. This can be particularly relevant for former manufacturing properties, industrial sites, commercial corridors, brownfields, and transit-oriented redevelopment areas in Bloomfield and throughout Essex County, where environmental due diligence and redevelopment strategy may need to be coordinated from acquisition through remediation, regulatory closure, and final reuse.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes. Resource Renewal supports environmental consulting, investigation, remediation, compliance, and redevelopment projects in Bloomfield and throughout Essex County through RCC and affiliated DSR. New Jersey project work is supported from Resource Renewal’s headquarters at the Resource Renewal Business Park, 10 Lippincott Lane in Mount Holly, a completed brownfield redevelopment project that serves as the home base for RCC and DSR operations. RCC has provided environmental consulting and remediation services since 1992.
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A Phase I Environmental Site Assessment evaluates a property’s current and historical uses, regulatory records, surrounding properties, and observable site conditions under ASTM E1527-21. Its purpose is to identify Recognized Environmental Conditions that may indicate the presence or likely presence of hazardous substances or petroleum products. A Bloomfield property may need a Phase I ESA during acquisition, refinancing, lender due diligence, redevelopment, or another commercial real estate transaction where environmental risk and potential liability are important considerations.
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A Phase I ESA is commonly completed within approximately two to three weeks, although timing depends on property complexity, site access, historical-record availability, agency-file review, and transaction deadlines. Former manufacturing, industrial, commercial, transit-oriented, or other historically intensive-use properties in Bloomfield may require additional research.
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A Recognized Environmental Condition does not automatically mean contamination is present. It indicates that further investigation may be appropriate. RCC can proceed with a Phase II Site Investigation using targeted soil, groundwater, and soil vapor sampling, certified laboratory analysis, and other investigative methods. If contamination is confirmed, additional Remedial Investigation, remediation, NJDEP coordination, and LSRP oversight may be required depending on the property and regulatory circumstances.
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Yes. Through affiliated DSR, Resource Renewal can support brownfield acquisition, remediation, environmental liability transfer, redevelopment planning, and long-term stewardship of environmentally impaired properties. These services can be particularly relevant to Bloomfield’s former manufacturing properties, brownfields, commercial corridors, industrial parcels, and transit-oriented redevelopment sites.
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Bloomfield has a long history of manufacturing, industrial activity, commercial development, petroleum storage, and redevelopment. These historical uses can create materially different environmental risks from parcel to parcel. A Phase I ESA can help buyers, lenders, developers, and counsel identify potential concerns involving underground storage tanks, hazardous-material handling, historical releases, contaminated soil or groundwater, vapor conditions, institutional controls, and nearby regulated properties before acquisition, financing, or redevelopment.
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Resource Renewal’s headquarters at the Resource Renewal Business Park in Mount Holly, NJ is itself a completed brownfield redevelopment project. It demonstrates the integrated approach RCC and DSR apply to environmentally impaired real estate: evaluating site conditions, investigating environmental concerns, implementing remediation, addressing regulatory requirements, and returning property to productive use. That same methodology can support brownfield and adaptive-reuse projects involving former industrial, commercial, manufacturing, and redevelopment properties in Bloomfield.
Visit Our Mount Holly, NJ HQ or Find Us Near You
The Resource Renewal Business Park
10 Lippincott Lane, Unit 1
Mount Holly, NJ 08060
Contact Resource Renewal for Project Support
For an ASTM E1527-21 Phase I ESA, Phase II Site Investigation, remediation, regulatory compliance, or brownfield redevelopment project in Bloomfield, NJ, contact Resource Renewal directly. Project work in New Jersey can be completed under LSRP oversight, with NJDEP coordination where required and field crews mobilizing from our Mount Holly HQ. Call (856) 273-1009 or request a project consultation.