Redeveloping Brownfields: Landscape Architects, Site Planners, Developers

by Russ, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780071353113
• ISBN10: 0071353119
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-09
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Site designer's brownfields remediation biblePacked with problem-solving strategies and procedures, Redeveloping Brownfields, by Thomas Russ, is an action manual for landscape architects, site planners, and developers involved with brownfield reclamation. All areas relevant to site design professionals are fullycovered, from the critical legal environment and risk issues to stormwater management solutions. You get sound advice on plants and construction details that meet the challenges of brownfield sites...post-design issues such as working with contractors and environmental professionals...special staff training...liability insurance... and much more.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Acknowledgments	xv
Legal Environment of Brownfields	1	(28)
Brownfields	2	(4)
Federal Laws Impacting Brownfields	6	(11)
Brownfield Initiatives	17	(12)
Site Assessment Procedures and Practices	29	(26)
Phase I Environmental Site Assessment	29	(9)
Phase II Environmental Site Assessment	38	(12)
Major Contaminants	50	(5)
Planning for the Redevelopment of an Impacted Site	55	(42)
Involving Stakeholders	56	(4)
Risk Communication for the Design Professional	60	(11)
Nature of Impacts	71	(7)
Redevelopment Strategies	78	(10)
Life Cycle and Maintenance Planning	88	(9)
Storm Water Management	97	(42)
The Redevelopment Site	99	(3)
Retrofitting Existing Facilities	102	(3)
Storm Water Management on a Capped Site	105	(7)
Storm Water on the Brownfield Site	112	(27)
Planting Plans	139	(44)
Saving Existing Vegetation	139	(2)
Evaluating Trees	141	(2)
Planting over Impervious Caps	143	(1)
Improving Impacted Soils	144	(11)
Selecting Plant Materials for Impacted Sites	155	(7)
Planting Trees	162	(16)
Phytoremediation	178	(5)
Design and Site Management Issues	183	(40)
Working with Construction Contractors	184	(1)
Erosion and Sediment Control	185	(30)
Preparedness, Prevention, and Contingency Plans	215	(3)
Materials Management	218	(5)
Practice Management Issues	223	(24)
Professional Liability	223	(2)
Health and Safety	225	(8)
Professional Practice	233	(12)
Areas of Opportunity	245	(2)
Appendix A EPA Region 3 Risk-Based Corrective Action Levels	247	(12)
Glossary	259	(10)
References	269	(4)
Index	273