Environmental Consulting – Senior Environmental Consulting, LLC – Joseph J. Hochreiter, CGWP | Senior-Level Experience in Environmental Consulting

Expert Services

Served as a technical expert for a major New Jersey development company in a cost-recovery litigation against an insurance company. Prepared an expert report in support of the environmental response and cleanup conducted by ...

Brownfields Redevelopment

Over a 10-year period, assisted the property owner (the Borough of Northvale, Bergen County, NJ) with evaluating options for the brownfields redevelopment of a former chlorinated-solvent manufacturing site. In the late 1960s, hundreds of drums ...

Water Supply Consulting

As a senior hydrologist with the New Jersey District of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Mr. Hochreiter developed a specialty in coastal plain hydrogeology where he designed, managed, and participated in a variety of benchmark studies of the New Jersey Coastal Plain...

Remediation and Risk Management

Served as Owners Representative in 2011 to a brownfields redevelopment company that owns a property in Woodbridge, NJ where a former specialty chemical company was being remediated by a third party. Assisted in the regulatory process that led to approval by NJDEP of all Remedial Action work performed for NAPL and site soil. ...

Multiple Site Coordination, Allocation, and NPL-Site Management

Mr. Hochreiter represents clients involved with the Passaic River (NJ), Portland Harbor (OR), and Gowanus Canal (NY) NPL-River-System sites. Example projects include: Representing a ferrous and non-ferrous metals recycling company ...

Conceptual Site Model Development and Public Communication

Prior to commencing an investigation, there is always some public domain information from which a Conceptual Site Model (CSM) can be developed. A CSM begins to tell a story about site conditions and possible pathways for constituent exposure...