Phase I Environmental Site Assessment in Camden, NJ

Yes — Camden and Camden County are core service areas. Resource Renewal is headquartered at 10 Lippincott Lane, Mount Holly, NJ, roughly 25 minutes from downtown Camden via Route 38 and I-295. From this HQ, RCC and DSR field crews work across Camden, Pennsauken, Gloucester City, Cherry Hill, Haddon Township, Collingswood, Audubon, Bellmawr, Voorhees, and the broader Camden County footprint, as well as the surrounding South Jersey municipalities.

A Phase I Environmental Site Assessment is a documented review of a property's current and historical use, performed under ASTM E1527-21, that identifies Recognized Environmental Conditions and Areas of Concern. Typical triggers include commercial real estate transactions, lender requirements, attorney due diligence, pre-redevelopment review, and refinancing. RCC pairs the ASTM Phase I ESA with an NJDEP-compliant Preliminary Assessment to provide combined federal CERCLA and NJ ISRA innocent purchaser protections. In Camden and Camden County, the property types most likely to trigger Phase I work are port/marine industrial, urban former manufacturing, dry cleaning and metal-finishing sites, fuel storage, healthcare and institutional campuses, and waterfront redevelopment parcels.

A typical Phase I ESA runs two to three weeks from authorization to draft delivery, depending on environmental database turnaround, depth of historical research, agency file review timing, and site access. For Camden projects, NJDEP file reviews and Preliminary Assessment add-ons can modestly extend the timeline, particularly on waterfront and legacy industrial parcels. RCC can accelerate timelines for time-sensitive transactions when scope and access permit, and coordinates layered NJDEP Preliminary Assessment work within the same engagement. Under ASTM E1527-21, a Phase I ESA is valid for 180 days, with extensions of up to one year possible if specific components are refreshed.

When Recognized Environmental Conditions are identified on a Camden property, the natural next step is a Phase II Site Investigation: a defined sampling plan, certified laboratory analysis, and data evaluation against NJDEP standards. If contamination is confirmed, RCC develops a Remedial Investigation and a Remedial Action Workplan, pursuing a Response Action Outcome under LSRP oversight. For owners who prefer to exit the property rather than carry it through closure, DSR brownfield acquisition and environmental liability transfer are available as an alternative path — a model especially relevant in Camden's dense brownfield inventory.

Yes. DSR is Resource Renewal's brownfield redevelopment company, with experience across more than 100 brownfield sites in NJ, NY, PA, MA, and OH. DSR services include site evaluation, environmental liability transfer, and full redevelopment, with experience directly applicable to Camden's port-industrial, urban manufacturing, and waterfront redevelopment inventory. DSR is a member of the EPA Landfill Methane Outreach Program and the Brownfield Coalition of the Northeast, and applies its Turn Brown to Green™ (TB2G™) model for landfill and brownfield reuse.

Under the NJ Site Remediation Reform Act of 2009, contaminated sites are remediated under Licensed Site Remediation Professional oversight rather than direct NJDEP case management. For Camden sites, the LSRP defines the technical approach, files key submissions, and issues a Response Action Outcome when site conditions meet applicable remediation standards. Typical sequencing is Preliminary Assessment, Site Investigation, Remedial Investigation, Remedial Action, and final RAO issuance. The RAO confirms regulatory closure and supports transactions, financing, and redevelopment — a key step for many Camden redevelopment projects.

Camden combines one of the densest brownfield inventories in New Jersey with an active redevelopment market driven by waterfront repositioning, port and logistics expansion, and major institutional anchors including Cooper Health, Rutgers–Camden, Campbell Soup, and Subaru of America. The Delaware River waterfront, the Port of Camden, the Admiral Wilson Boulevard corridor, and ongoing redevelopment in North Camden, Cramer Hill, and the central business district drive continuous Phase I demand from lenders, institutional buyers, developers, and counsel — with a direct line to NJDEP- and LSRP-regulated remediation work as projects progress.

The Resource Renewal Business Park at 10 Lippincott Lane is itself a brownfield redevelopment project — a working proof point for the same Phase I, Phase II, remediation, and brownfield redevelopment methodology RCC and DSR apply to client sites in Camden. From Mount Holly, our teams reach Camden, Pennsauken, Gloucester City, Cherry Hill, and the rest of Camden County on a same- or next-day basis for the majority of Phase I engagements.