Certified Environmental Consulting Since 1978

Engineering a cleaner tomorrow.

Summit Environmental, Inc. helps businesses, property owners, and public agencies solve complex environmental challenges involving buildings, soil, groundwater, surface water, and air quality.

1,500+Sites Assessed
45+Years Operating
98%+Compliance Success
01 Built Environment Asbestos, mold, lead, and indoor air quality
02 Soil Assessment and remediation planning
03 Groundwater Monitoring, investigation, and closure
04 Surface Water Testing, compliance, and spill response
05 Air Quality Monitoring, permitting, and emissions support
About Summit

Practical solutions backed by science, field experience, and regulatory knowledge.

Summit Environmental provides clear, defensible answers for environmental risk, compliance, and remediation. Our work is designed to help clients move projects forward while protecting communities, ecosystems, and long-term asset value.

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01 / SCIENCE

Evidence-led assessments

Recommendations are grounded in field observations, certified laboratory data, and accepted technical methods.

02 / COMPLIANCE

Regulatory fluency

We translate federal, state, and local requirements into practical steps that stand up to review.

03 / PARTNERSHIP

End-to-end stewardship

From initial assessment through corrective action and closure, you work with one coordinated team.

What We Do

Environmental expertise, engineered for resilience.

From contaminated soil to compromised air quality, Summit Environmental delivers regulator-ready assessments and remediation strategies across five critical domains.

B 01

Building & Indoor Environments

Asbestos surveys, mold investigations, lead paint testing, and indoor air quality audits for commercial, industrial, and residential properties.

  • Pre-demolition hazardous materials surveys
  • VOC and particulate IAQ monitoring
  • Abatement oversight and clearance
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S 02

Soil Assessment & Remediation

Phase I, II, and III ESAs with remediation design for petroleum hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and persistent organic pollutants.

  • Phase I and II site assessments
  • Soil sampling and delineation
  • Remedial design and closure
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W 03

Surface Water Studies

Watershed characterization, stormwater compliance, and sediment investigations for industrial and municipal projects.

  • Stormwater compliance
  • Surface-water sampling
  • Spill response planning
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G 04

Groundwater Investigation

Monitoring wells, aquifer testing, contaminant plume delineation, and long-term groundwater quality programs.

  • Monitoring-well installation
  • Aquifer and pump testing
  • Plume delineation
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A 05

Air Quality & Emissions

Ambient air monitoring, stack testing, dispersion modeling, and emissions inventories aligned with regulatory standards.

  • Indoor and ambient monitoring
  • Emissions inventories
  • Permitting support
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Leadership

Meet the people behind Summit Environmental.

Experienced leadership focused on practical, science-based environmental solutions.

Ph.D.

Dr. Wayne Dorband

President

Dr. Wayne Dorband leads Summit Environmental with decades of experience in environmental science, consulting, education, and entrepreneurship. His work emphasizes practical, science-based solutions that protect environmental quality while helping clients move important projects forward responsibly.

Previous Staff

History

Summit Environmental’s history was shaped by experienced professionals whose technical leadership, fieldwork, and commitment to clients helped build the company’s longstanding reputation.

Previous Staff
M.S. · CMC · RPIH · HHS

Brad Harr

Former President and Senior Environmental Scientist

Brad Harr has more than 39 years of environmental science experience, including 31 years in environmental site assessment; soil, water, and air contaminant characterization; damp-building assessment; and contaminated-site remediation and closure.

His technical expertise includes regulatory compliance, risk assessment, environmental characterization for property transfers, permitting, building science, microbial evaluations, and clandestine drug-lab evaluation and remediation. Brad managed Summit’s site-assessment services, quality assurance, and large-project planning, budgeting, and cost control. He served as project manager for numerous UST, RCRA, and Superfund hazardous-waste remediation projects for government agencies, private industry, and private citizens throughout the Northwest.

Brad holds B.A. degrees in Biology and Botany and an M.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Montana. He has served on the Boise State Environmental Health Advisory Committee and participated in four international environmental standards-writing committees at ASTM and IICRC. He is a Registered Professional Industrial Hygienist, Certified Microbial Consultant, and Healthy Homes Specialist. Brad also served on the Indoor Environmental Standards Organization board and provided expert-witness testimony involving gasoline releases, hazardous-waste cleanup, and damp or mold-impacted buildings.

Previous Staff
CMI · CRI

Michael A. Larango

Former Vice President and Manager of Field Operations

Michael “Mike” Larango has more than 29 years of experience in environmental and building science. As Vice President and Manager of Field Operations for Summit Environmental, Inc. and Royal Inspection, his responsibilities included building inspections, fungal assessments, health and safety management, contractor oversight, multi-media sampling, groundwater monitoring, Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessment research and reporting, Health and Safety Plans, microbial evaluations, and documentation of field activities.

Mike’s additional expertise includes data research and collection, soil and waste sampling, hazardous-waste management, heavy-equipment operations, UST decommissioning, professional-witness assistance, and air monitoring and sampling. He is emergency-response trained and is a Certified Real Estate Inspector and Certified Microbial Investigator.

A Montana native and longtime Boise-area resident, Mike enjoys meeting people and helping them with environmental and building-purchase needs. Away from work, he and his wife enjoy traveling, camping, skiing, motorcycling, sports, and spending time with their children and grandchild.

Site Assessments Available

Let’s solve your environmental challenge.

Tell us about your site, building, compliance question, or urgent environmental concern. A senior consultant will review your request and respond promptly.

24/7 Spill Line(303) 810-6365
Headquarters

16878 Meadow Lane
Nampa, ID 83687

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Knowledge Base

Questions, answered by experts.

Environmental assessments can feel complex. We've gathered the questions our clients ask most often about soil, groundwater, air quality, and building remediation — answered by our licensed environmental consultants.

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