Manufacturing and industrial facilities can occupy whole neighborhoods, industrial parks, or stand-alone properties. The uses are varied ranging from automobile service, boat building, engine manufacturing, electronics manufacturing, etc. Older facilities often discharged wastes into dedicated structures such as impoundments and drainfields. While these discharges were considered Best Management Practices at the time, these types of activities resulted in serious environmental problems on and off the property.

The regulations involving more recent industrial and manufacturing activities are more stringent, but All Appropriate Inquiry is necessary to determine the likelihood of accidental discharges from the subject property or impact from area-wide discharges that could impact the subject property.