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Projects < back Fort Howard Former Veterans Administration Medical Center, Phase I Environmental Site Assessment
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, under contract to The Craddock Group, Inc. OVERVIEW
DESCRIPTION Avatar Associates conducted a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) of an approximately 95-acre property with over 50 buildings. The Phase I ESA was conducted in accordance with The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Standard Practice E 1527-05 for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Process (ASTM E 1527- 05), to document environmental concerns on the Site for potential developers. The VA is currently seeking a developer to enter into a long-term lease under its Enhanced-Use Leasing (EUL) authority for the redevelopment of the Fort Howard Campus. The site was used historically by the United States Army from the late 1800s to 1940. During operation of the site, the Army used over 100 buildings on the Site. In 1940, the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) began to use the site as a medical center. Many of the buildings that had been used by the Army had been demolished. The VA constructed an approximately 120,000-SF hospital on the site in the early 1940s. Active use of the majority of the buildings on the site by the VA ceased in the late 1990s, although the VA continues to operate an outpatient clinic. The majority of the approximately 50 buildings on the Site were inspected by Avatar during the site reconnaissance. Several buildings were inaccessible due to high mold concentrations. Avatar reviewed historical building plans and approximately 10 previous environmental reports, and created detailed AutoCAD figures of the Site showing current and former buildings and areas of concern. Three historical landfill areas, historical underground storage tanks, and known areas of elevated metals and petroleum product constituents were identified as recognized environmental conditions.
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