Since October 2013, Aspen has been assisting the Ventura County Watershed Protection District (VCWPD) with the SCR-3 Project, and recently completed the Final EIR in June 2016.

This second decade of the 21st century has seen an increasingly growing industry in remotely operated vehicles, including ones that are airborne. Commonly known as “drones”, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have not only become a commercial industry tool used for various tasks but now are available to the private consumer as a recreational item.

This second decade of the 21st century has seen an increasingly growing industry in remotely operated vehicles, including ones that are airborne. Commonly known as “drones”, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have not only become a commercial industry tool used for various tasks but now are available to the private consumer as a recreational item.

Since the company’s inception, Aspen has assumed the role of prime contractor for large, publicly visible, and multidisciplinary teams. As a result, we have always considered one of our primary strengths to be project management and, in the case of on-call service contracts, program management.

2016 has been a year of celebration and reflection for Aspen Environmental Group as we celebrate 25 years of service. To honor this milestone, we’ve added some exciting features to our website.

In today’s social environment, project applicants often want to do the “right thing” to ensure that not only does their project go through the regulatory requirements as efficiently as possible, but also develop a project that is sustainable and well accepted by the general public. There are many hurdles and pitfalls in the course of taking a project from conception to completion.

Aspen is working under contract with the County of San Luis Obispo to provide the County with environmental services including the preparation of an Environmental Impact Report for the Avila Point Project. The project is proposed by Chevron Land and Development Company on a 95-acre site, a former oil tank farm in the community of Avila Beach.

We are glad to announce a development at Aspen that reinforces the principle of organic growth that we have adhered to since our inception. As we approach our 25th anniversary, we saw it fit to offer shares of the company to two more of our long-term, loyal, and exceptionally talented Aspen employees: Chris Huntley and Negar Vahidi.

Last September, California Governor Edmund G. Brown signed milestone legislation into law establishing the nation’s highest targets for expanding renewable energy and increasing energy efficiency.

Aspen Environmental Group is a leader in providing professional biological services in support of public and private clients. The accurate identification, documentation, disclosure of biological resource information, and identification of any potential significant impacts and measures to avoid or minimize these impacts are critical to ensuring that projects commence on time and without costly delays.

During most of 2015, Aspen Vice President Susan Lee served as a member of a six-member Independent Scientific Technical Advisory Panel (ISTAP) that studied seawater intake technology options for the Proposed Poseidon Resources LLC Desalination Facility in Huntington Beach, California

Since the fall of 2013, Aspen has been working with the California Department of Conservation, its Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR), and the California Natural Resources Agency to prepare an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) entitled “Analysis of Oil and Gas Well Stimulation Treatments in California,” which is more familiarly referred to as the “SB 4” EIR.

The goal of AB 52 is to promote the involvement of California Native American Tribes in the decision-making process when it comes to identifying and developing mitigation for impacts to resources of importance to their culture.

Aspen has an array of multi-year on-call contracts with a variety of agencies. One of the most recent on-call contracts is for delivering environmental and air quality services to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP).

With a 5-0 vote at its regular business meeting on June 10, the California Energy Commission (CEC) agreed with its staff’s recommendation and approved the awarding of a 6-year contract to the Aspen Environmental Group team for providing consulting and administrative services under the Commission’s Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) Program.

Aspen Environmental Group understands the ever-growing importance of geospatial information and its contribution to the environmental consulting industry as well as to other industries and clients.

Under the new Santa Ana River monitoring contract with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Aspen recently used several Reconyx HyperfireTM HC 600 trail cameras to monitor wildlife usage in and around the Prado Basin near Corona, CA

Catherine Elder and Ashley Spalding, part of the Aspen’s Energy Resource Economics group, attended the Center for Research in Regulated Industries’ (CRRI) 28th Annual Western Conference in Monterey, CA from June 24 through June 26.