Mill City Environmental Corporation

Ask around Lowell about asbestos and the name that comes back is Brian Chapman's. Mill City Environmental has been incorporated in the city since November 2001, runs about 46 employees out of two Lowell addresses, and takes the jobs most contractors hand off — asbestos abatement, decontamination, hazardous waste transportation, soil remediation, site restoration and spill cleanup — for residential and commercial customers across the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, according to its BBB profile. The company says it has been doing environmental work since 2001, roughly 25 years by its own count. Most of the praise comes from people who hire environmental contractors for a living, and that is worth knowing going in. One reviewer in March 2025 described a 21E issue on a property they had listed that Chapman walked them through to a favorable outcome. Another, writing the same month, said they had worked with him across multiple projects over two and a half decades, always on time and on budget. In September 2025 a customer on an asbestos abatement project rated the crew 4 stars, calling them professional and communicative and noting the owner stepped in himself to explain the complications. A March 2025 reviewer who used the company for everything from dumpster rentals to hazardous waste and asbestos removal said they were up front about pricing. Two accounts cut the other way, and both come from residential work. In January 2024 a homeowner who hired them for an asbestos remediation repair called the experience abysmal — the estimate visit was professional, they wrote, and the trouble started on the day the work began. On BBB, a customer describes the lead who came out as rude and unprofessional. That same BBB page carries an A+ grade and accreditation dating to April 2013, and Google shows 4.5 stars across 19 ratings, so those two sit against a mostly positive run. They are also both about how the crew conducted itself in someone's house, which is the part a homeowner is actually buying. One more thing a careful reader will notice: most of the five-star writing landed in a single week at the end of March 2025, and the written record on file runs 2021 through 2025. On credentials, the state registry shows Massachusetts Supplier Diversity Office certifications as both a Minority Business Enterprise and a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise, currently active, the MBE through April 2027 — which matters if the work falls under a public contract. The Lowell Sun reported in May 2025 that the company worked with teaming partner Atlas Technical Consultants on a hazardous material survey report. If you have a documented environmental problem — a 21E, contaminated soil, asbestos that has to leave the property with paperwork behind it — this is a firm built for that scale of work. Ask who the lead on site will be, and get the scope and the price in writing before the crew arrives.