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Holiday 2009 Newsletter

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Happy Holidays and Season’s Greetings

Add your company to ERIS’ Suggested Contact List

ERIS provides environmental reports to a wide range of clients from environmental consultants and engineers to lawyers, banks, mortgage companies, appraisers, insurance companies and real estate agents across Canada and the United States. Often, we are asked to suggest businesses that might assist a client in furthering his/her research or investigation of a property. If your company would like to be listed on the Suggested Contact’s page of the ERIS website, and be included in ERIS’ bi-annual e-blast to current and prospective customers, then we’ll add your logo on our site and link it to your website for a small annual fee. Call
Isabel Pereira or Mark Mattei for more details at:
1-866-517-5204.
 

ERIS at CAAMP 2009 Trade Show

On November 22 to 24, ERIS attended the Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals or CAAMP 2009 Trade Show. The three-day event took place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and was a great opportunity for ERIS to showcase the ERIS Risk Check Report to thousands of new prospects. The Risk Check Report is designed to assist Lenders and Real Estate Agents in making a preliminary judgment and due diligence on environmental risks pertaining to a specific Canadian property and any adjacent properties. The report alerts clients as to whether their property is considered a low risk or an elevated risk in terms of environmental concerns.

Thank-you to all those who stopped by our booth at CAAMP.  Congratulations to Tony Leung from Mortgage Alliance, the lucky winner of our prize draw for a Nintendo Wii system. A great prize to win and just in time for the holidays!

There will be another chance to win this great prize at GLOBE 2010, Vancouver, B.C.,
March 24 to 26, 2010 . Be sure to drop by Booth 1425 and enter for your chance to win!
 

In the news

C&D disposal site reopens for remediation in PEI 11/30/2009

Ont buildings remediated, retrofitted 11/25/2009

Calgary to remediate creosote site 11/18/2009

Thank-you

Thank-you for taking the time to read this edition of In the Crosshairs.  As always, your feedback is appreciated.  Please send your comments to: mthompson@eris.ca.

With the holiday season quickly approaching, we would like to take this opportunity to wish you and yours a very festive season and all the very best of health, happiness and success in the New Year. We sincerely appreciate your business this past year and we will strive to continue to serve you with innovative products, services and pricing in 2010. Please feel free to contact any member of the ERIS team at 1-866-517-5204 or info@eris.ca. We look forward to working with you.

Front Row (from left): Eleanor, Dimitry, Carol, Simuoko, Isabel & Daniel
Back Row: Raf, Matt & Mark
Missing: Daniela (to be profiled in next edition) & Diana (maternity leave)

Holiday Hours and Service

ERIS will be mostly open during the Holiday season. The office will be closed only on December 25th, 28th and January 1st.

During the holiday season, our services will not be seriously interrupted. However, our Laser Air Photo and City Directory search services will be suspended between December 18th and January 4th.

For clients who might require those services, please take note of the cut-off dates below:

7 Business Day TAT = Last day available, December 9th, 2009
5 Business Day TAT = Last day available, December 11th, 2009
4 Business Day TAT = Last Day available, December 14th, 2009
2 Business Day TAT = Last Day available, December 16th, 2009

On January 4th, 2010 our services will resume as per usual.

New! Digital Topos Now Available

Digital Topographic Ontario Base Maps (OBM) are now available. The maps include airports, buildings, contour lines, spot heights (elevations), hydrography, lakes, watercourses, hypsography, drainage, municipal boundaries, parks, pits and quarries, roads/streets, railways, utility lines, vegetation, wetlands, native

reserves and the township boundaries as originally surveyed by the Crown.
Coverage for Southern Ontario is at a scale of 1:10 000 and Northern Ontario at a scale of 1:20 000. No coverage available for the City of Toronto.

Digital topographic maps are a perfect addition when reviewing your subject property and surrounding area. Maps are in a .pdf format with a red arrow indicating the location of the subject property. Clients have the convenience of zooming in to see more detail.

For more info, please contact Mark Mattei, Research & Development Manager, at 416-510-6859, or mmattei@eris.ca

Ontario Borehole data added to ERIS reports

A borehole is the generalized term for any narrow shaft drilled in the ground, either vertically or horizontally. This database includes geotechnical investigations or environmental site assessments, mineral exploration, or holes that were drilled as a pilot hole for installing piers or underground utilities.

This information comes from many sources such as the Ministry of Transportation (MTO), and from engineering reports and projects from the 1950 to 1990s in Southern Ontario. Boreholes from the Ontario Geological Survey (OGS), including the Urban Geology Analysis Information System (UGAIS) and the York Peel Durham Toronto (YPDT) database of the Conservation Authority Moraine Coalition, also make up this database. ERIS reports will provide information on the location of the borehole, its stratigraphy, depth, elevation and year drilled, to name a few.

For all Water Well Information System data or Oil and Gas Well data for Ontario, please refer to the WWIS and OGW databases.

What's New With the Databases?

As mentioned, ERIS has introduced a new database in Ontario, Boreholes.

In British Columbia, the Potentially Contaminated Site database and Site Registry have been updated to November 2009 and the Conviction database to June 2009.

In the Yukon, ERIS’ contaminated site listing is now up to date to June 2009.

For more details, please see our website: www.eris.ca. It’s always a good idea to refer to the database listings on ERIS’ website for the most current updates.

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