Recommendation for Company that Performs Garden Lead Soil Remediation

I met with Eco Brooklyn’s Gennaro Brooks-Church to consult regarding soil remediation. He is indeed very knowledgeable. I had already done lots of on-line research and Gennaro was able to enlighten me further based on my specific situation. Although i will do the work myself, his consultaion was well worth the effort and in the end his advice will save me money. But if you want to hire someone to contract the job who really knows what he’s doing and cares, this is the company and man for you.

nancy sullivqn

in Garden 12 years and 2 months ago

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bdstuygrdner | 13 years ago

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Eco-Brooklyn just finished isolating the old lead tainted soil in our backyard redesigning our garden, and making it into a safe space for children and adults alike.  We decided to test our soil because we love spending time in the garden, and wanted to share the experience with our toddler.  After testing the soil in our backyard we discovered that lead levels were quite high.  The levels were probably not abnormal for Brooklyn backyards with many years of lead paint and pipes, but dangerous to our toddler nonetheless.  When we looked around for a company with experience in dealing with lead in the garden we drew a blank until we discovered Eco-Brooklyn.  In fact, it was so clear that Eco-Brooklyn knew what it was doing in comparison to other companies that we chose Eco-Brooklyn over another company that gave us a lower estimate.    The team at Eco-Brooklyn dismantled our raised bed and took the soil and spread it around the garden.  They took apart our rock garden and put the components aside.  They removed and put aside plants that we wanted to keep and carefully trimmed the trees in the garden.  They increased the area in our garden by taking down a fence and trimming a bush that had reduced our space by about 40 square feet They then put down a root barrier over the old soil and covered that with six inches of untainted soil, carefully working around existing trees.  They the rebuilt and refilled the raised bed, reconstructed the rock garden and subtly redesigned the whole garden giving us more space and a reclaimed hardwood deck in the far right corner. The result was beautiful!  We look forward to playing in the garden, planting vegetables and flowers with our child and entertaining friends for years to come.  Eco-Brooklyn’s employees were astoundingly careful, moving hundreds of square feet of soil through our house with hardly any mess, cleaning up every day.  They took strict measures to keep the contaminated soil isolated and out of our house.   Gennaro Brooks-Church, the owner of Eco-Brooklyn was fabulous to work with.  He was attentive to our vision and budget and at the same time full of ideas and enthusiasm, coming up with creative and attractive ways to achieve our goals.  Gennaro is passionate about ecologically sensitive gardening and design.  It is clear he truly loves what he does and that excellent workmanship and service are a point of pride.  He was very generous with his time, extremely responsive to calls and emails.  He wanted us to be delighted, not just pleased.  We are!

slopegirl | 13 years ago

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thanks for this info