FACILITY DESIGN
5,000 Drum per Month Non-hazardous Chemical Waste Transfer Station, North Chicago, Illinois. The facility receives drummed liquid and solid non-hazardous, industrialwastes and consolidates compatible materials for bulk shipment to thermal destruction. The design included waste receiving, storage, and processing facilities.
- Responsible for the process design.
- Developed the facility’s Waste Acceptance Plan.
- Developed the Operations Plan for the facility.
- Prepared permit Documents
Pease Air Force Base, Massachusetts. Successfully developed the technical rational to enable the State of Massachusetts and USEPA to approve minimally invasive closure for three of the six landfills at the base.
- Developed the strategy to permit one landfill to remain with volunteer vegetation and the soil cover originally placed by the operator.
- Design approach for one of the landfills that was threatening a wetland, incorporated wetland enhancement, landfill mining and provided material to facilitate the closure of another landfill on the site.
Landfill closure and design of wetland system to polish stormwater and treated leachates, Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority, Lancaster County Pennsylvania.
- Cap of completed landfill was host for the wetland design.
- Wetland polished stormwater and treated leachate form the Authority’s active landfill.
- Developed a strategy where the wetland qualified for wetland banking by both the County and the State.
City of New York, Department of Sanitation. Minimizing litter in the waters adjacent to the marine transfer station and barge unloading facilities for Fresh Kills Landfill as the Department of Sanitation’s Marine Operations Consultant. These measures included modifying crane buckets, tipping floor operations, and solid waste processing equipment (compactors, use of intermodal containers, balers, etc.) One significant measure evaluated was the development of intermodal transfer from the marine transfer stations to the Fresh Kills landfill or landfills outside of New York City.
- Developed intermodal design for city transfer.
- Expert witness before a Federal Magistrate.
- Lead design for marine off-loading station.
- Developed operations plan that, when coupled with the recommendations for equipment modifications, lead to a marked reduction in water borne litter.
Performed geological investigations of abandoned clay mine to determine the suitability of the site for use as a landfill. This site, in Saginaw, Michigan, had filled with stormwater and the geological borings were done in the dead of winter, enabling drilling rigs to go out on the ice surface to obtain samples of geologic materials throughout the site.
- Developed technical approach
- Managed data gathering activities of two drilling rigs and a field staff of 9 professionals.
Upgraded and expanded a 5-acre landfill in Lapeer, Michigan, to a state-of-art facility of 80-acres. The design included liner and leachate collection systems, a piggy-back expansion, and groundwater monitoring system upgrades.
- Designed the first piggy-back expansion involving liners in Michigan.
- Managed design team of 7 professionals.
- Managed the permitting of the landfill expansion.
- Maintained responsibility for construction oversight at the completion of design.
Successfully designed and permitted the first land-based, municipal co-disposal facility in the nation for PCB and municipal solid wastes at the John Sexton Sand and Gravel Corp. Landfill, Des Plaines, IL.
- Developed the project concept to assist local newspaper in their efforts to receive paper using the Chicago River.
- Refined design concepts by developing a thorough knowledge of Polychlorinated biphenyl materials and their chemistries.
- Performed all the work necessary to obtain the United States Environmental Protection Agency Permits and Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Permits.
- Developed Waste Acceptance Plan and Receiving Plans for the project.
- Developed the Operations Plan.
Performed a hydrogeological evaluation of a clay pit in Saginaw County. The evaluation included the preparation of a permit to remove 28,000,000 gallons of surface water from the pit, and the defense the Dewatering Permit before the Michigan Environmental Hearing Board.
- Prepared Michigan Dewatering Permit.
- Served as an Expert Witness before the Michigan Environmental Hearing Board in defense of the dewatering project.
Eastmont Sanitary Landfill, Wenatchee, WA. During the development of the operations plan it was discovered that the landfill had not been originally permitted with the State of Washington. The permitting was undertaken as a part of the operations plan development and a design was developed to enable permitting under the revised Washington regulations.
- Developed Operating Plan for desert landfill.
- Lead design modifications to obtain permit.
- Developed permitting strategy
- Successfully negotiated a reduction in groundwater monitoring requirements as part of permit development.
- Developed a municipal wastewater treatment sludge soil admixture to provide cover materials that met Washington standards and incorporated the process in the permit for the facility.
Above-grade Hazardous Waste Landfill, Beecher Development Corp. The hazardous waste landfill, along with a municipal waste landfill, was to be an "anchor" for an industrial park. The above grade design enabled visual monitoring of leachate generation and recovery.
- Design for the hazardous waste facility was unique for its time; the base of the liner system was at the original grade for the site.
- Designed leachate collection system that enabled visual confirmation of leachate flows.
300,000 GPD Hazardous Waste Treatment Complex for John Sexton Contractors, Hillside, Illinois. The facility would receive bulk liquid wastes and, using waste-to-waste processing and Sequencing Batch Reactor technology, treat the wastes to contaminant levels suitable for discharge to sewer.
- Design approach used Sequencing Batch Reactor and Waste-to-Waste technology.
- Developed Waste Acceptance Procedures, Waste Screening Procedures and Operations Plan for the facility.
300 TPD Static Pile Compost Facility for yard wastes, landscape wastes, and municipal leaf collection wastes.
- Design supported landfill operation.
- Separated yard, landscape, and leaf wastes at the landfill.
Drinking Water turbidity Removal.
- Designed a lime addition system to remove turbidity from a 600,000 GPD drinking water system supplying a trailer park in Shepps Valley, NJ.
Anerobic digester design for Municipal Wastewater Treatment Facility
- Designed and conducted a bench-scale simulation for a two-stage anaerobic digester.
- Data developed from the simulation were used to redesign the feed-sludge conditioning system at the Lindenwold Sewage Treatment Plant, Lindenwold, NJ.
Groundwater Recharge
- Performed hydrogeologic evaluation of a wastewater percolation bed for trailer park complex.
- Designed monitoring program for the wastewater percolation bed.