For many new business ventures from real estate development to golf courses or even the development of private farms, consideration of potentially adverse impacts on the environment need to be carefully considered.
But, where can business owners and developers go for the expertise needed to navigate the morass of federal, state and local environmental regulations?
Michael Gutzmer, a local entrepreneur, has nearly 20 years of experience in the environmental arena. He works with businesses facing complicated questions regarding compliance with environmental regulations.
He has provided environmental insight and support to dozens of clients since the early 1990s and has helped those who have owned or managed industrial, commercial and recreational properties since 1984.
Gutzmer’s work has been published in several scientific journals since the mid-1980s and he is often called upon as a speaker and expert witness for various environmental issues.
Gutzmer said his firm New Century Environmental LLC is a professional environmental firm that can meet the environmental challenges of the 21st Century for the energy, industry and the agricultural business sectors.
The company was formed in 2007 to provide a broad range of professional environmental services and support.
“For a business to be truly green, they must be in compliance with state, federal and local regulations,” Gutzmer said. “The biggest part of our effort to help clients is in assisting them to maintain compliance with all the rules and regulations. We provide environmental assessment and compliance support for every imaginable type of firm.
“We are supported with professional biologists, ecologists, geologists and environmental engineers, who collectively assess and manage a variety of compliance and natural resources issues.
The firm has a collective network of retired state and federal employees, former electric company personnel, university professors, zoologists and professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds that bring decades of world and national experience to all our projects.”
Gutzmer said his firm manages each environmental challenge independently; based on the clients’ objectives for compliance, permitting, recreation, habitat development, impact assessment and aesthetics.
Once the client’s objectives are outlined New Century assembles the most qualified team for the project.
Gutzmer said the approaches to each project takes into consideration existing resource conditions, client expectations and budget restrictions.
“This allows us to formulate and implement cost effective resource management plans, thereby providing our clients with optimal results,” he said.
Gutzmer’s client list includes power companies, railroads, manufacturing companies with environmental permits, Indian tribes, fishing and hunting clubs, golf courses, city municipalities, state fish and wildlife agencies, homeowner and lake associations, real estate agencies, private ranches, farms and resorts.
Gutzmer’s firm can offer fishery and lake management services, including stocking, fish habitat improvement, lake aeration system design and installation, water quality evaluation and management, algae and weed control, and shoreline development and protection.
Its terrestrial division provides wetland consultation, land mapping, food plot design and construction, and big game management services and pollution remediation.
“NCE has a primary mission in assisting companies with environmental assessment services before any development or construction impacts result or after a pollution event has occurred,” said Gutzmer. “We help clients maintain compliance with federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations and help prevent natural resource impacts and endangerment to human health and society”.
The company also provides environmental services related to grant writing, waste minimization, pollution sampling, permit compliance, new construction permitting, property development, environmental impact analysis and assessment, waste remediation, environmental auditing, route selection and virtually every aspect of water resource and terrestrial mapping, inventory and analysis is available.
Gutzmer said the lake maps his firm produces can be used for boating and fishing, sedimentation monitoring, aquatic weed control, fisheries management, habitat development, land use planning, construction and excavation, lake safety and renovation.
“As politics plays an ever-increasing role in our lives, so does it also affect what is actually implemented in the management of our natural resources and impacts to our world,” Gutzmer wrote in a recent e-mail. “Enforcement of regulations begins at the federal level and who is in the White House makes a big difference in what is enforced at the local level.
“The stable integrity of our ecosystems requires acute awareness, reasonable monitoring of contaminant, ever-increasing technologies and approaches to effective conservation and strategies to harmonize mans impact to our one and only environment”.
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