Tag: remediation

Northgate Drone Team Presents at California Geospatial Conference

June 20, 2017

Northgate was pleased to share the story of one of our Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS/drone) projects at the 2017 CalGIS/LocationCon conference in Oakland. In its 23rd year, The CalGIS Conference is considered a premier venue to discuss geospatial technologies. Northgate associate Taylor Bennett presented a case study from our successful drone mapping and imagery project at the Montezuma wetlands restoration site in the San Francisco estuary. At the Montezuma wetlands, Northgate and our partner, GeoWing Mapping Inc., conducted a high-resolution aerial survey of a 2,150-acre portion of the Suisun Marsh, which is now being restored from farmland to its original wetland state. […]

Northgate Supports 2017 Bay Area Open Space Conference

June 14, 2017

Northgate is proud to once again sponsor and exhibit at the Bay Area Open Space Council’s 2017 conference, “Eyes on the Horizon, Boots on the Trail.” The conference was held in Richmond, California in May and brought together more than 500 members of the Bay Area’s land conservation community, including policymakers and conservation professionals. Northgate participated as a sponsor at the Watershed Level. Northgate’s exhibit featured the numerous open spaces in the San Francisco Bay Area it has helped bring back to health for the enjoyment of the community and restored ecological function. Northgate has contributed its expertise in environmental assessment and cleanup to the benefit of living shorelines, […]

Join Northgate at the 2014 Battelle Conference May 19-22, Monterey, CA

May 17, 2014

Come join Northgate at the Ninth International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds, for podium and poster presentations! Podium Presentation: Maile Smith, PG, Principal Geologist at Northgate, will be presenting on The Remediation and Redevelopment of a Former Army Base, Oakland Global Trade and Logistics Center. This presentation will highlight the sustainability measures incorporated into the redevelopment of the former Oakland Army Base.  Early project stakeholders recognized the opportunity to integrate remediation with redevelopment, protecting human health and the environment while efficiently accessing impacted areas during site improvements.  Along with the remediation risk management program, a comprehensive list of CEQA mitigation measures and City conditions […]

Critical Updates to the Polanco Act

February 18, 2014

In October 2013, Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 440, which helps facilitate the cleanup and redevelopment of blighted urban properties (i.e., Brownfield sites). This new law, referred to as Polanco 2.0, is an expansion of, and successor to, the original Polanco Redevelopment Act, which effectively ended on February 1, 2012 with the formal dissolution of local redevelopment agencies. Under AB440, cities, counties, and some housing authorities (“local agencies”) can now compel responsible parties to clean up their blighted property, or can directly perform the cleanup themselves. Local agencies are authorized to investigate blighted properties and prepare cleanup plans, or require […]