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Youth Intervention Center, Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Environmental risk assessments are an essential component of the investigation and remediation of sites where known or potential contamination is a concern. These sites include not only brownfields, but also industrial facilities with on-going operations, and vacant land that may have been impacted by historical fill placement, open dumping or other activities that may not be readily apparent. Environmental risk assessments provide an evaluation of the potential health impacts to humans or wildlife that may be exposed to hazardous or potentially hazardous substances in soil, groundwater, surface water, sediments or air at these site types of sites.

Hull's environmental risk assessors consists of a team of recognized professionals in biology, toxicology, chemistry, ecology, environmental fate and transport, and statistics. They use an interdisciplinary approach not only in conducting formal human health or ecological risk assessments, but also in risk-based environmental decision-making. Hull's environmental risk assessors combine technically up-to-date information with the best professional practices they have acquired over the past two decades. Thus, Hull's risk assessments provide quantitative and qualitative analyses that are concise, transparent, compliant with regulatory requirements and professional standards, and appropriately scaled to their stated purpose.

Hull's risk assessors stay actively involved in the development of regulations and guidance for environmental risk assessment and risk-based decision-making. This allows them to add valuable insight when developing risk-based strategies for the client. They have been actively involved with the development of new rules for risk-based corrective action for petroleum USTs with Ohio's Bureau of Underground Storage Tank Regulations (BUSTR), the development of generic numerical standards and risk assessment procedures with Ohio EPA's Voluntary Action Program (VAP, and the review of rules and guidance for the Risk Integrated System of Closure (RISC) under Indiana's Department of Environmental Management.

For more information, please contact Hull's Risk Assessment Practice Leader, Ed Pfau at (614) 793-8777.