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title: "Soil Testing in the Bay Area: Why It’s So Important"
description: <p>Whether you're a real estate developer or a property manager in the Bay Area, find out why you should invest in soil testing and other environmental services.</p>
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# Subsurface Investigations of Bay Area Properties

Whether you're a real estate developer considering investing in industrial space; or you're a property manager that wants to protect tenants from environmental hazards, you may want to invest in soil testing and other critical environmental services.

Here are some reasons why:

![Soil testing Bay Area](https://blog.esseltek.com/hs-fs/file-1013256857-png/blog-files/add-subtitle-text-1-200x300.png?width=200&height=300&name=add-subtitle-text-1-200x300.png "Environmental Site Assessment")

**1. Unearth hidden risks during your due diligence process.**

Before you scope a property in depth, you want to know whether it’s even viable as an investment vehicle. By getting a [Phase 1 Environmental Site Assesment](http://esseltek.com/phase-1-esa-environmental-site-assessment/), you can determine whether any risks or contaminates exist onsite and make a decision whether it’s worth it to invest in the abatement process or just move onto another opportunity.

**2. Engage in clean up effectively and efficiently.**

Perhaps an undetermined X Factor has made your tenants sick and you suspect some form of environmental contamination. Perhaps a past tenant spilled benzene products in the back. Or maybe a neighbor deposited waste paint from his art projects, and those chemicals seeped over into your lot. In either case, [soil testing](http://esseltek.com/soil-testing/) can give you the actual diagnosis..

**3. Soil testing can prepare you to sell a property.**

****You don’t want to wind up on the business end of a lawsuit or get stuck wrangling with the buyer after the fact. If you can identify environmental problems early in the process, you can clean them up.

**4. Use soil testing to protect yourself from getting hammered by government regulators for violating code.**

Depending on the amount of damage, these fines could reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars if you aren’t careful. It’s always better to be safe than sorry.

## Get started with our Bay Area Environmental Engineers

Contact Essel Environmental today for a free, thorough estimate about your needs. Call our [environmental consultants](http://esseltek.com/about-essel/) at [1-800-595-7616](tel:18005957616) or fill out the request form on our website.

 

 

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