DEP Stop Work Order Help for Hempstead Owners and Builders

DEP asbestos stop work orders are issued by the city's environmental agency, and they reach only projects inside the five boroughs. They do not apply in Hempstead or anywhere in Nassau County, where asbestos work is governed by New York State rules. The people reading this are usually owners, builders, landlords or property managers from around here whose job in the city has been stopped. The story is usually similar. Asbestos was disturbed without the proper filings or controls, sometimes during demolition, sometimes because no survey was done. An inspector arrives, the order goes up and the site goes quiet. Lifting it takes a sequence of steps. In general, that means filing what was missing, having the material in question abated by a licensed contractor, monitoring the air during and after the work, and getting DEP sign-off. How quickly DEP acts is up to DEP, and no one should promise you a date. What a contractor can control is doing every step on its side correctly and in the right order. That is where we come in: assessing what was disturbed, preparing the filings, enclosing the area, removing the material wet under air monitoring and pulling together the records needed to request sign-off.