JOE LINTNER | COLUMBIA SPY
Iron Eagle employees began to "set up shop" this morning at the former McGinness property on Manor Street as another step in the remediation project there.
Iron Eagle Excavating submitted the low bid of $2,196,104.60 for the project, which is expected to take about four months for completion.
Rick Breneman of Breneman Site Construction will oversee the project. Breneman has been a member of the McGinness design team since the beginning.
Soil remediation/stabilization represents Phase 1 of development of the property, aimed at bringing it to "pad-ready" condition. The work will focus on removing problematic materials from the ground to ensure a clean foundation.
Engineering assessments had revealed issues at the site, according to Jason Best of ELA Group and Derek Rinaldo, the borough's engineer who has overseen the project since its inception. During the February 25, 2025 council meeting, Best described the scope of the problem as including "deleterious materials, including whatever junk was buried through the course of all the flattening for the runways years and years ago."
According to Rinaldo, the southern runway was built with improperly compacted fill material that was "just dumped,” creating what he characterized as "fluffy soil" with compaction levels that are "all over the place."
Remediation will involve stabilizing the ground to support future buildings through a multi-step process. Teams will sift contaminated areas to remove materials that don't belong in the soil, while buried organic matter such as trees will be chipped on-site rather than transported elsewhere.
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