An Electronic Newsletter
of EEA's Environmental Consulting Activities
Summer 2004
EEA, Inc.
55 Hilton Avenue
Garden City, New York
(516) 746-4400
(212) 227-3200
(800) 459-5533
additional New York offices:
Stony Brook
(631) 751-4600
Altamont
(518) 861-8586
New Jersey Office:
Weehawken
(201) 865-8444
e-mail addresses:
General:
mailto:eea@eeaconsultants.com
Individual:
First initial and last name
@eeaconsultants.com
EEA services include
Phase I ESAs, Haz-Mat
Testing and Remediation, Wetlands
Delineation
and Creation, Natural
Resources Inventories,
Marine Ecology Studies,
Air Quality and Noise
studies, and Environmental Management
System (ISO 14000) implementation.
Visit our web site at
http://www.eeaconsultants.com/
For information or
quotes contact:
Phase I ESAs
Richard
Fasciani
Phase II/III Haz-Mat
Testing and Remediation
Nicholas
Recchia, CPG
Dredge Management Testing
Jeffrey Shelkey
EAS/EIS Studies
Janet Collura,
CWS
Wetlands Studies and
Design
Laura Schwanof,
RLA
Marine Ecology
Teresa Rotunno
Terrestrial Ecology
Denise
Harrington, AICP
Air Quality and Noise
Victor Fahrer,
P.E.
Power Plants-Water Permitting
Glenn
Piehler, Ph.D.
Environmental Management Systems
(ISO 14000)
Robert
Clifford
EEA, Inc. -
founded in 1979
Principals
Leland M.
Hairr, Ph.D.
President
Allen Serper,
M.S., P.E.
Vice President
Roy R. Stoecker,
Ph.D.
Vice President
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Soil and
Groundwater HazMat Sampling with a Geoprobe |
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Noise Monitoring/
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Air Quality Monitoring/Modeling |
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SPECIAL EDITION
EEA CELEBRATES A QUARTER CENTURY
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This August 2004, EEA, Inc. (Energy & Environmental Analysts, Inc.) and the founding
principals, Leland Hairr, Ph.D., President, Roy Stoecker, Ph.D., Vice President, and Allen Serper,
P.E., Vice President, celebrate 25 years as environmental consultants to
Government and Private Clients.
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Meet the Principals |
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EEA's principals had previously worked together as
senior officers of the Environmental Division of Equitable Environmental Health, Inc., a
national environmental, occupation health and economic consulting firm
that was wholly owned by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S.
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The Beginning Years
Many of EEA’s early assignments during 1979-1980 have been indicative of EEA’s
future markets. During the early years, EEA’s energy efforts included
site feasibility studies for wind energy systems. Wind energy clients included
W.R. Grace Co. in Baltimore Harbor and Scott Paper Co. in Maine and an
evaluation of European wind energy systems for the London Headquarters of Shell
International. Some private
client assignments involved hazardous materials contamination or
permitting (IBM in Corning, New York and waste solvents recycling firms in
Brooklyn) as well as an Environmental Site Feasibility Study for Nabisco to
develop a new cookie production facility in an industrial area of Celaya,
Mexico. During 1980, New York City and New York State agency work became a
major market for EEA, which continued for the next 24 years. EEA began work for
NYC’s Public Development Corporation on an EA and DEIS/FEIS for the Port
Authority’s Satellite Communication Center (Teleport) on Staten Island and the
NEPA DEIS/FEIS for the New York State Department of Transportation’s (NYSDOT)
Proposed Oak Point Link/Harlem River Yard Rail Freight Intermodal Facility in
the South Bronx. (See Partial Client
List.)
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Increasing Capabilities –
Challenging Assignments
During the early years, under Dr. Stoecker’s
leadership, EEA increased its capability for performing ecological studies
and purchased an ocean-going research boat for major marine studies in the
metropolitan New York waterways.
During the 1980’s, major
marine ecology
studies included:
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East River Landing
(waterfront from South Street Seaport to the Wall Street Heliport) and
the Hudson River Center (now the Convention Center) for NYCPDC.
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Passaic River Basin
Water Quality Assessment for the Army Corps of Engineers and extensive
wetlands assessment and floating refuse monitoring and testing of
controls at the Fresh Kills Landfill for New York City’s Department of
Sanitation.
EEA’s
air quality and noise quality staff were performing modeling and
permitting studies for large Resource Recovery Facilities (refuse to
energy) and waste transfer facilities on Long Island and in New Jersey, as
well as for new highway projects (upstate and downstate) for the NYSDOT.
EEA also prepared environmental impact
statements, including the Pierrepont Street Office Development (Morgan
Stanley) which was the initial leading development in the downtown
Brooklyn Renaissance. Working for the London Office of Olympia and York,
EEA assisted in the preparation of the Environmental Impact Statement
(1990) for the Extension of the London Underground (Jubilee Line) to the
major new financial center development, Canary Wharf. This was the first
transportation project-related EIS in the UK and was prepared in a format
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Haz-Mat Studies
Become Significant Part of Business Plan in 1980s
 EEA's haz-mat group was one of the leading firms in initiating
Phase I Environmental Site Assessments in New York during 1987.
EEA President, Lee Hairr, served on the ASTM Standards Committee
that promulgated the national standard. These studies remain
a significant business area for EEA, which has performed Phase I
ESAs on over 5,000 properties. During the 1980s, under Allen
Serper's leadership, EEA increased its Phase II/III Haz-Mat Testing
and Remediation Division through staff additions and an affilitated
drilling company. Major haz-mat projects for New York City
were performed at the Phelps Dodge Copper Refinery Site in Queens
and the Newark Bay (Procter Gamble) site on Staten Island.
Lead contamination at firing ranges became a concern in the early
90s, and EEA evaluated subsurface and airborne lead at the New York
City Police Firing Range (Rodman’s Neck) and at the Blue Mountain
Sportsmen Range for Westchester County. At Blue Mountain, EEA
measured the ecological pathways uptake of lead. A major Passaic
River and Newark Bay Sediment Sampling Study for dioxins and PCBs was
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The
90s – Metro New York Focus
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During the past decade, EEA has continued to generate
over half of its annual revenues from governmental agencies, and a major
part of the work has been in New York City. EEA has worked almost
continually on contracts for the past 15 years for the Department of
Environmental Protection, Department of Sanitation, and Economic
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These contracts have included Phase I Environmental
Site Assessments for the NYC Watershed Management Land Acquisition Program
in the Delaware, Catskill, and Croton Watersheds (since 1993), The Jamaica
Bay Eutrophication Study, Use, Standards and Attainment (USA) long-term
planning studies, and the Long Outfall Alternatives planning studies for
the NYCDEP.
EEA has performed complex environmental
impact assessment studies for major NYSDOT transportation projects
including:
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Long Island Expressway/SOB
Interchange and HOV/Continuous Service Roads, NEPA and SEQR EISs, Exits
42-46 (Nassau County)
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Cross Island Parkway/LIE
I-495 Interchange Reconstruction (Queens County)
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Route 25/Route 111-Route 347
Improvement Project (Suffolk County)
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Bronx River Parkway
Improvement Project (Bronx County)
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Taconic State Parkway
Improvement Project (Putnam County)
EEA’s Marine Ecology Division has been the
Army Corps of Engineers’ environmental consultant for all the natural
resources inventory and impact assessment work for the Reformulation
Study, Atlantic Coast of Long Island.
EEA has also continued its work for electric
utilities, including Long Island Power Authority and KeySpan. Recent or
on-going projects include right-of-way transmission corridor permitting
studies (Riverhead to Southampton), a natural resource inventory update of
the former LILCO Jamesport site and ongoing environmental consultant to
LIPA for the offshore wind energy generation facility plans.
EEA currently has major haz-mat testing and
remediation projects underway, including a Brownfield Program under New
York State’s new Brownfield Act. EEA also currently has ongoing multiyear
environmental task order contracts with several New York City agencies and
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EEA currently has a patent pending for a new
submerged cooling water intake structure for power plants (with once through
cooling) that will eliminate fish/eggs/larvae entrainment and impingement
and increase thermal efficiency. EEA is discussing support for a
demonstration installation with a couple of east coast utilities. If successful, it could produce
substantial cost savings at many power plants (see
Spring 2004 edition
of Insights.).
Other Offices
During the late 1990s, EEA added an office in
Stony Brook, New York, where most of the ecological staff is located, and
field offices in the Albany, New York area and Weehawken, New Jersey to
better serve our clients.
From the Principals
Over the past twenty-five (25) years, we have worked for thousands of
clients: Fortune-500 and small, private and governmental, metro New
York-regional and more distant. We have been fortunate to have a dedicated
and very capable staff, to be able to have so many challenging and
interesting projects along with the more routine, and to truly feel proud of
the work performed. We value our relationship with you, both clients and
regulators, and strive to provide technically competent solutions for
environmental issues.
We look
forward to working with you for many
years to come….
Lee Hairr, Allen Serper, Roy Stoecker
and the whole staff of EEA
“Team EEA”
at J.P. Morgan/Chase Corporate Challenge
(5K Run for Charities)
PERSONAL TRIBUTE:
James V.
Fitzpatrick
The
Principals of EEA would like to acknowledge the inspirational assistance
they received from the President of their former employer, James V.
Fitzpatrick, who brought them together at his firm in 1972 and instilled
in them the importance of persisting, even in the face of adversity. Mr.
Fitzpatrick had previously served Mayor Daly in Chicago as Commissioner of
Air Pollution Control and as Sanitation Commisioner. In New York, he was
President of a manufacturer of air pollution control equipment when he met
Merril Eisenbud, Director of NYU’s Laboratory for Environmental Studies,
consultant to national and international agencies and John Lindsay’s first
NYC EPA Administrator. Jim and Merril founded a national environmental
consulting firm in 1970 which was acquired by The Equitable in 1975. Jim
served as an outside Director on EEA’s Board during the early years and
his guidance was invaluable.
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