Environmental · Connecticut
Contaminated properties, cleaned up and closed out.
One LEP from your first call to the state's sign-off, who knows your site and tells you plainly what each result means.
ZUVIC finds out what's actually in the ground, what the state requires of you, and the most direct way to get to a closed file, a sale, or a building permit.
Transfer Act or the new release based regs: picking the wrong approach can add years. We know which one fits your site.
Our LEPs
Someone who knows your site, start to finish.
In Connecticut, a Licensed Environmental Professional (LEP) is the person the state authorizes to sign off that a site meets its cleanup standards. ZUVIC has two:
Victoria Man, LEP
Tory has more than 30 years in environmental work and has led ZUVIC's environmental practice since 2009. She has taken sites from Phase I to state closure on Goodwin University's riverfront campus, at airports and industrial plants, and for New Haven's Route 34 Downtown Crossing, and she sits on the Capitol Region's brownfields steering committee.
Daniel Pinho, LEP
Dan takes commercial, industrial and utility sites from first sample to final report. His work runs from Eversource's decommissioned substations and wastewater treatment plants to tank closures across Connecticut and due diligence on up to 50 potential waste-facility acquisitions in five states, and he handles hazardous building materials before renovation or demolition.
The LEP who scopes your investigation stays with it to the end: the same person who knows your site's history, tells you what each result means, and verifies the cleanup when it's done. There's no hand-off halfway through, and no one new learning your site in year three.
Services
What we do.
Due diligence and site assessment
Before you buy, lend or sell, we find out what the property's history left behind.
- Phase I, II and III Environmental Site Assessments
- Transaction due diligence for buyers, sellers and lenders
- Sensitive receptor surveys and vapor intrusion evaluation
- Hazardous building materials surveys (asbestos, lead paint, PCBs) before renovation or demolition
Connecticut cleanup programs
The Transfer Act, the new Release Based Cleanup Regulations, the Remediation Standard Regulations: we work out which rules apply to your site and take it through them. How the new rules work →
- Transfer Act / Property Transfer Program filings and case management
- Release Based Cleanup Regulations (RBCR, in effect since March 1, 2026): evaluation, reporting, and comparison with an existing Transfer Act pathway
- Remediation Standard Regulations (RSR) compliance and groundwater monitoring
- LEP verifications
- Environmental use restrictions and engineered controls (caps and other measures that let you build safely without removing all the soil), including annual reporting
- Significant Environmental Hazard notification, response and closure
Remediation
When something has to be cleaned up, we design the cleanup and oversee it.
- Remedial action plans and cleanup cost planning
- Excavation oversight and soil management plans
- Soil vapor extraction and air sparging
- In-place treatment, including chemical oxidation and injection programs
- Free product (LNAPL) delineation and recovery system design
- PCB investigation and cleanup under the federal TSCA rules
- Underground and aboveground storage tank closures
Compliance for operating facilities
For plants, depots and campuses that have to stay open and stay in permit.
- SPCC (spill prevention) plans
- Stormwater pollution prevention plans and industrial stormwater general permit compliance
- Construction stormwater inspections
- CT DEEP discharge and injection permits, including groundwater remediation discharges to sanitary sewer
Funding and expert support
- Brownfield funding support, including regional revolving loan funds and EPA brownfield grants
- Litigation support and expert witness services
Projects
Representative work.
Turning former fuel terminals into a campus
For Goodwin University's $38 million Riverside Campus, ZUVIC has investigated and cleaned up former petroleum terminal parcels along the Connecticut River in East Hartford. The work has included soil vapor extraction, in-place chemical treatment and years of groundwater monitoring as the University expanded onto the riverfront.
Petroleum under an operating plant
For an industrial owner on filled land near the water, ZUVIC rebuilt three decades of site records and found and sampled the legacy wells. It then drilled new borings inside the running plant to map the free product on the water table and planned the recovery system. The site has been in the Transfer Act program since 1996, and the work now includes the choice between that program and the new release based rules.
A petroleum release that has to be handled now
A gasoline tank removed years earlier had left petroleum into shallow bedrock groundwater within 200 feet of a supply well. ZUVIC's LEPs took the owner from Phase I through a state-permitted injection and a year of monitoring. In December 2021 CT DEEP certified the hazard resolved, after a single round of treatment.
A school site closed with no deed restriction
A 4.23-acre parcel of old parking, farm fields and an electrical substation became Goodwin's Pathways Academy magnet high school. ZUVIC cleaned it to residential standards while the school was being built, and CT DEEP closed it with a Letter of No Audit in 2016.
A substation closed under the new state rules
For Eversource, ZUVIC took a decommissioned substation from Phase I through cleanup, four quarters of groundwater sampling and, in August 2026, an LEP verification of closure under Connecticut's new Release Based Cleanup Regulations.
Thank you for keeping us in the loop on the everchanging regulations.
FAQ
Questions we hear.
My site has been in the Transfer Act program for years. Do the new rules change anything?
They can. Since March 1, 2026, Connecticut's Release Based Cleanup Regulations set a different path from the Transfer Act, and some owners are better off on one than the other. We compare the two for your site: what's required, in what order, and on what timeline.
Can I build on a site that isn't completely clean?
Often, yes. Depending on the site, a cap, a vapor barrier or a recorded use restriction can make it safe to build without removing every yard of soil. When the cleanup goes deep enough, as it did at the Pathways Academy site, no restriction is needed at all.
Do I need a Phase I before I buy?
If you're borrowing to buy, your lender will almost certainly require one. Even with cash, a Phase I done to the current federal standard (ASTM E1527-21) is what protects a buyer if contamination turns up later.
I'm not sure I have a problem at all.
That's usually where it starts. Send us the address and what you know, and we'll tell you what we'd look at first.
Tell us about your site
Next step.
Book a 20-minute call and tell us what you know about the site's history. We'll tell you what we'd look at first and whether the new rules affect you.
Or, if you'd rather write it down first, tell us about your site in a short form and we'll reply the same business day.
Credentials
- Environmental
- Two Connecticut Licensed Environmental Professionals
- Licensed
- Asbestos inspector and management planner, Connecticut
- On call
- Eversource · MDC
- Certified
- Small & Minority Business Enterprise, CT DAS
ZUVIC Inc. is a Rocky Hill, Connecticut engineering firm. Our environmental team, led by two Licensed Environmental Professionals, handles Phase I-III site assessments, Transfer Act and Release Based Cleanup Regulations cases, remediation and compliance for operating facilities.