Phase I Environmental Site Assessment in Brick, NJ
Brick Township sits within one of Ocean County’s most active commercial and redevelopment markets, positioned near the Garden State Parkway, Route 70, Route 88, and the broader Jersey Shore region. Property owners, developers, contractors, municipalities, lenders, and counsel working across Ocean County and surrounding coastal communities rely on focused environmental due diligence because Brick includes a mix of commercial corridors, former industrial and automotive properties, redevelopment sites, waterfront parcels, and environmentally sensitive areas. 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 Ocean County Choose Resource Renewal
Resource Renewal brings proven brownfield redevelopment experience to Brick Township, applying the same methodology RCC and DSR use across client sites throughout Ocean County and the Jersey Shore region. 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 Brick Township, NJ
- NJDEP Preliminary Assessment for Ocean 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 Brick Township & Ocean County
- 30+ years of New Jersey environmental consulting & remediation experience
Environmental Context in Brick and Ocean County
Industrial and Commercial Heritage
Brick Township’s environmental history is shaped less by heavy manufacturing than many older New Jersey industrial centers and more by decades of landfill activity, highway-oriented commercial growth, automotive and service uses, petroleum storage, and rapid postwar development. The township is divided by the Metedeconk River and includes extensive commercial corridors along Route 70, Route 88, Brick Boulevard, Cedar Bridge Avenue, and Chambers Bridge Road. As Brick evolved from a seasonal shore community into one of Ocean County’s largest suburban municipalities, commercial centers, service stations, medical uses, shopping centers, and other developed properties became concentrated along these major transportation corridors.
Current Environmental Profile
Brick contains a mix of active commercial properties, former automotive and petroleum-use sites, regulated underground storage tank facilities, redevelopment parcels, and properties with known or potential soil and groundwater impacts. The township’s most significant environmental site is the Brick Township Landfill Superfund site on Sally Ike Road. The approximately 42-acre landfill operated for more than 30 years before closing in 1979 after waste disposal contaminated groundwater with leachate. EPA added the site to the National Priorities List in 1983. Cleanup included an engineered landfill cap, institutional controls, groundwater monitoring, removal of drums, and long-term operation and maintenance. The site remains subject to EPA oversight and periodic five-year reviews.
Real Estate and Development Market
Brick Township is one of Ocean County’s major commercial and residential markets, with development concentrated around Route 70, Route 88, Brick Boulevard, Chambers Bridge Road, Cedar Bridge Avenue, and the Brick Plaza area. Township planning documents identify these corridors as the established commercial core and encourage infill, redevelopment, mixed-use development, and revitalization of aging commercial properties rather than expansion into environmentally sensitive areas. Brick also provides a notable example of environmentally constrained property reuse: the capped Brick Township Landfill now hosts a large solar installation containing more than 24,000 panels, demonstrating how contaminated land can be returned to productive use without disturbing the underlying remedy.
Local Regulators, Authorities, and Stakeholders
Environmental projects in Brick 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, with Licensed Site Remediation Professionals overseeing many investigations, remedial actions, and closure efforts. EPA Region 2 retains direct involvement at the Brick Township Landfill Superfund site. Local development and redevelopment projects may also involve Brick Township planning, zoning, engineering, environmental, and land-use authorities, while Ocean County agencies can become involved where county infrastructure or approvals apply. Coastal, flood-hazard, wetlands, and CAFRA requirements may also be relevant to certain properties because Brick includes extensive waterways, bayfront areas, and environmentally sensitive land.
Why This Local Context Matters for Your Project
Brick Township is not a uniform suburban environmental market. Its mix of highway commercial properties, former and active automotive uses, petroleum storage, older shopping centers, redevelopment sites, waterfront parcels, environmentally sensitive land, and the legacy Brick Township Landfill creates materially different environmental risks from parcel to parcel. A Phase I Environmental Site Assessment should therefore consider historical commercial and industrial uses, underground and aboveground storage tanks, service stations, petroleum releases, Recognized Environmental Conditions, Areas of Concern, NJDEP case history, institutional controls, groundwater impacts, vapor concerns, nearby contaminated properties, and environmental restrictions affecting redevelopment. Understanding Brick’s development and environmental 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 Brick, NJ Projects
Service availability in Brick Township and throughout Ocean 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 Brick Township 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, automotive, mixed-use, and redevelopment properties in Brick Township and throughout Ocean 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 Brick Township properties with suspected or confirmed petroleum, hazardous-material, or other 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 Brick Township and Ocean County projects.
Brownfield Redevelopment
Acquisition, remediation, entitlement, redevelopment planning, and repositioning of environmentally impaired commercial, industrial, automotive, and redevelopment 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 Brick, 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 Brick Township and Ocean 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 Brick Township, the DSR platform can support brownfield acquisition, environmental liability transfer, remediation, and redevelopment planning. This can be particularly relevant for former automotive and petroleum-use properties, commercial redevelopment sites, landfill-related properties, waterfront parcels, and sites along Route 70, Route 88, Brick Boulevard, and other established commercial corridors, 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 Brick Township and throughout Ocean 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 Brick Township 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 automotive, petroleum-use, landfill-related, commercial, waterfront, or other historically intensive-use properties in Brick Township 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 Brick Township’s former automotive and petroleum-use properties, commercial redevelopment sites, landfill-related properties, waterfront parcels, and other environmentally constrained real estate.
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New Jersey’s site-remediation process is largely overseen by Licensed Site Remediation Professionals. An LSRP can direct investigation, evaluate Areas of Concern, oversee remedial actions, and determine whether applicable NJDEP requirements have been satisfied. Depending on site conditions, the process may include a Preliminary Assessment, Site Investigation, Remedial Investigation, Remedial Action, and ultimately issuance of a Response Action Outcome when regulatory requirements are met.
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Brick Township includes a mix of highway commercial properties, automotive and service uses, petroleum-storage sites, redevelopment parcels, waterfront properties, environmentally sensitive areas, and the legacy Brick Township Landfill. These conditions 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 and aboveground storage tanks, petroleum releases, hazardous-material handling, historical contamination, groundwater impacts, 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, commercial, landfill-related, and adaptive-reuse projects in Brick Township.
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 Brick Township, 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.