Toxic Soil !
I purchased a beautiful brick, 2 family brownstone in Ridgewood this Summer and promptly tested my backyard soil (Brooklyn College soil testing service). The results revealed high levels of Lead and other toxic chemicals. I needed to remove the soil and replace it with clean dirt so my young child could safely play. I also…
I purchased a beautiful brick, 2 family brownstone in Ridgewood this Summer and promptly tested my backyard soil (Brooklyn College soil testing service). The results revealed high levels of Lead and other toxic chemicals. I needed to remove the soil and replace it with clean dirt so my young child could safely play. I also planned to grow a garden. Brooklyn College recommended Gennaro Brooks-Church from EcoBrooklyn! They are incredibly helpful, professional, neat, reliable, kind and truly informative. EcoBrooklyn deals with all sorts of green building issues. This is a solid company and I highly recommend them.
www.EcoBrooklyn.com
Hey, maybe you wouldn’t need to troll this forum if you got back to people who email you looking for you to do work! Must be a slow season, huh?
All the materials used on the job were salvaged.
They salvaged the dirt from another job. They removed stones from the yard and will use them as decoration in another gardening job. The mulch was salvaged from the Home Depot dumpster.
Also in the mulch mix, is saw dust from their job sites, mulch that they chipped up from a Chinese invasive tree they cut down, straw left over from an earthen floor they built and leaves from the street. All the material is free of toxins and high in organic content that will bind the heavy metals and enrich the soil for plants.
The general idea with everything they do is to reduce the waste going to the dump while increasing the fertility of the jobs.
I’m promoting the great work of ecobrooklyn, that’s not self-promotion. I’m sure most people understand the concept of “clean dirt”.
swapping out topsoil is not an ecologically sound solution.
“clean dirt” is oxymoron
and this post sounds like self-promotion