Evidence-led assessments
Recommendations are grounded in field observations, certified laboratory data, and accepted technical methods.
Summit Environmental, Inc. helps businesses, property owners, and public agencies solve complex environmental challenges involving buildings, soil, groundwater, surface water, and air quality.
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.
Recommendations are grounded in field observations, certified laboratory data, and accepted technical methods.
We translate federal, state, and local requirements into practical steps that stand up to review.
From initial assessment through corrective action and closure, you work with one coordinated team.
From contaminated soil to compromised air quality, Summit Environmental delivers regulator-ready assessments and remediation strategies across five critical domains.
Asbestos surveys, mold investigations, lead paint testing, and indoor air quality audits for commercial, industrial, and residential properties.
Phase I, II, and III ESAs with remediation design for petroleum hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and persistent organic pollutants.
Watershed characterization, stormwater compliance, and sediment investigations for industrial and municipal projects.
Monitoring wells, aquifer testing, contaminant plume delineation, and long-term groundwater quality programs.
Ambient air monitoring, stack testing, dispersion modeling, and emissions inventories aligned with regulatory standards.
Experienced leadership focused on practical, science-based environmental solutions.
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.
Summit Environmental’s history was shaped by experienced professionals whose technical leadership, fieldwork, and commitment to clients helped build the company’s longstanding reputation.
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.
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.
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