This external site assessment should take about a week, and should be completed by the end of July.
Most site assessments are conducted by private companies independent of the owner or potential purchaser of the land.
Geologists at Brown are assisting the Soviet scientists in the site assessments.
The purpose of their study was to compare common SQGs used for site assessments in California.
In 1993 and 1994, an environmental site assessment of the area was completed.
In response, some states, including Rhode Island, created programs to help developers offset the cost of site assessment and cleanup.
The three governments also embarked on detailed environmental site assessments, and a variety of preliminary cleanup projects.
Potential purchasers are often unwilling or unable to risk an investment in a site assessment for a property that may require cleanup they cannot afford.
And they know that sellers will pay for site assessments.
Wheelabrator had the 1988 study done as an initial site assessment.