Newsletter Spring 2010

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Improving the Accuracy of ERIS Reports

ERIS is Hiring!!

To guarantee timely delivery of ERIS reports, ERIS is looking to hire a part-time Data Specialist. The position is expected to be part-time until training is complete with full-time hours available on contract after that. The potential exists for the new hire to work from home once the training is complete. The successful candidate will have completed or be working towards a degree in Geomatics, Geography, Planning or Environmental Science, with GIS experience. For more details, please email Matt Thompson at mthompson@eris.ca.

ESANS Food Drive

As a prominent member of ESANS (Environmental Services Association Nova Scotia), ERIS was proud to sponsor the ESANS Environmental Curling Bonspiel 2010, which took place in Halifax, Nova Scotia on February 19, 2010. ERIS would like to congratulate all the winners who participated in this noteworthy event and ESANS who collected approximately 100 kg of food to assist Feed Nova Scotia’s mission to feed hungry people and ultimately end chronic hunger.

Upcoming Events
Mark your calendar...

ERIS will be participating in the following events this spring:

• Globe 2010 in Vancouver, March 24-26 at booth #1425. If you are a BC client and would like to set up a Meet and Greet with ERIS to talk about all the enhancements to BC reports as well as all our value-added products and services, please contact:
Mark Mattei
Phone: 1-866-517-5204 
Email: mmattei@eris.ca.

• Brownfields Breakfast Series in Vancouver, March 25 at the Delta Suites Hotel. Click here to register, only $55.00.

• Sustainable Property Transactions, April 14–16, Sheraton Society Hill Hotel, Philadelphia, PA USA.

• Brownfields Breakfast Series in Toronto, April 21, at the Bond Place Hotel, Dundas Square, Toronto, ON. Only $55.00. To register, click here.
 

Enhanced New Brunswick Reports

ERIS is pleased to announce that New Brunswick Property Based Environmental Information (PBEI) will now be included with all NB Standard and Standard Select reports at no extra charge. ERIS Standard and Standard Select reports include a search of federal, provincial and/or private source databases for a subject site and adjacent properties in New Brunswick within a 250-metre radius. The reports are priced at $345 and $245, respectively.

Contact Isabel Pereira at ipereira@eris.ca or toll free at 1-866-517-5204 for any inquiries.

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.

ERIS is proud to have provided its customers with accurate and reliable products for over a decade. Delivering quality products in a timely affordable manner is a very important part of the ERIS philosophy. Products and processes are all subject to an ongoing review to ensure that an unsurpassed level of quality is maintained throughout the business.

After an in-depth internal review, the Self Serve Instant Report — which allowed ERIS customers to search specific environmental databases for a site — was found to be unreliable due to variances in address reporting within government data. As a result, the Self Serve Instant Report is being replaced with a much more accurate report, the ERIS Site Report.

The ERIS Site Report provides clients with a quick, low cost search for information for one site only. The ERIS Site Report, although not instant, is delivered within the next business day and is only $130. Each site report is manually verified and run through the complete set of databases by a Production Analyst who will ensure that all applicable records are accurately included in the report.

Report Gets a New Name

The ERIS Loan Risk Assessment is the new report name for the previously named Risk Check Report. This report is your desktop environmental due diligence package for commercial property loans. It includes a Standard ERIS Report, Topographic Map, Fire Insurance Plans, City Directory Search and risk assessment summary by a qualified environmental professional. The ERIS Loan Risk Assessment is a complete report package that lenders require to indicate whether a property is considered low risk or elevated risk in terms of environmental hazards.

What’s New With Databases

Both the Generators and Receivers of Waste databases have been updated in Ontario, Alberta and Manitoba. In Ontario, the databases are current up to the end of June 2009. In Alberta and Manitoba, the databases are current to the end of January 2010.

The Fuel Storage Tank database (FST) has been updated in Alberta and Ontario to the end of January 2010. The Alberta tanks information is sourced from the PTMAA, and the Ontario tanks information is sourced from the TSSA.

Contaminated Sites in British Columbia and Manitoba have also been updated. The British Columbia database (PCS), which includes Site Registry information and Detail Reports, is current and updated regularly. The Manitoba Contaminated Sites database has been updated to the end of November 2009.

Ontario Convictions, Environmental Registry (EBR) and Record of Site Condition (RSC) databases are all current to February 2010.

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

ERIS Profile: Daniela Nigro, Production Analyst

Daniela Nigro began her career at ERIS as a Data Specialist in May of 2005 after successfully graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree from a four-year program in Geographic Analysis at Ryerson University. Within a short time, Daniela was promoted to Production Analyst where she was not only responsible for completing environmental risk reports for clients but was also responsible for coordinating aerial photographs, topographic maps, land titles, city directory searches as well as insurance product orders. Daniela can always be counted on to take on another aspect of the business, which she then becomes a specialist in.

As one of ERIS’s top assets, a reliable and enthusiastic team member, she can be contacted directly at 416-510-5204 ext. 23 or at dnigro@eris.ca.

British Columbia Reports

New and exciting changes for our BC Reports!! We have enhanced and developed new reports which provide more information for our BC Standard Plus Report and the new BC Site Registry Report. Clients now get full Detailed Reports from the Site Registry for all records within 500 metres from the centre of the subject property at no extra charge. Click here for a sample report.

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