PLANNING
Engineering Services required to monitor the landfill operations contractor in Charles City County, VA. The project is ongoing with groundwater monitoring data interpretation, continuing construction monitoring, operations monitoring and an annual review of closure design and post closure plans.
- Supervised review of the permit documents and engineering design of the landfill to enable the County to meet its contractual commitment of approving permitting and design.
- Provided oversight of landfill construction and review of change orders.
- Provided operations oversight.
- Met regularly with the County Board of Supervisors to review status of operations at the landfill.
Established the groundwork to enable the Dearborn County Solid Waste Management District to take full control of their operations. Provided a strategy to modify operations to more clearly achieve the goals of the District’s Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan.
- Performed detailed review of District Operations.
- Correlated operational objectives with Comprehensive solid Waste Management Plan goals.
- Developed a series of recommendations that compose a strategy which, when implemented will bring the District into full control of it’s operations.
Led the Solid Waste Committee of the Joliet, Illinois, City Council in determining the most feasible solid waste disposal alternative for the Joliet for the next 20 years. The project involved identifying the residential waste generation rate for the City, identifying suitable technologies, assessing the most cost effective alternative and assisting the committee in making a recommendation before the Mayor and City Council.
- Lead a subcommittee of City Council in a Structured Decision Making process.
- Assisted committee in development of recommendations to the full City Council
- Provided content support to the committee.
- Project was completed under budget and on schedule.
- Saved city the expense of a new City-owned landfill.
Successfully privatized a new 5,000-ton per day landfill for Charles City County, Virginia. The project in response to the forced closure of the Charles City County landfill which was receiving 20 tons per day of county waste. After responding to a request for proposals in which bidders were to provide the site, design and operations plan. Each bidder presented his proposal to the citizens of Charles City County in a public meeting and the successful contractor was selected after several rounds of round-robin negotiations. The siting of the facility occurred without opposition. The primary conditions of the contract between the County and the Contractor were developed in Focus Groups with key opinion leaders in the county. The new landfill rewards the county with revenue on the order of $5 million per year.
- Developed project concept after discussions with County leadership.
- Developed detailed specifications used in the Request for Proposals.
- Facilitated several focus groups to establish Critical Success factors for the project.
- Assisted the County Board of Supervisors in determining shortlist of proposes using a structured decision making process.
- Developed a Proforma Operating Statement for each proposal.
- Developed negotiation strategies.
- Developed specimen contract using outcomes of the focus groups.
- Negotiated with proposers.
- Provided the County with assessments of each round of negotiations.
- Participated in the drafting of the final contract.
Saved the Northeast Indiana Solid Waste Management District some $190 per ton of recyclables processed through the privatization of the District’s recyclables processing centers.
- Developed procurement process for the District.
- Procurement included recyclables collection and processing.
- Developed the detailed specifications for the procurement.
- Assisted the District in contractor identification.
- Provided assistance in bid review procedures.
Managed the procurement of new office facilities for the Northeast Indiana Solid Waste Management District. The procurement was centered on a performance specification developed in concert with the District.
- Developed procurement process to provide the District with affordable, custom office space.
- Developed the detailed specifications for the procurement.
- Assisted the District with contractor selection process.
Developed the overall plan for solid waste management in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. This five year plan is based on the determination of municipal waste and special (industrial) waste generation rates in the county and was developed to encourage both residential and industrial development while maintaining cost effective recycling and disposal costs.
- Developed basic waste generation data for the County.
- Integrated industrial waste into the plan and planning process.
- Identified opportunities for intergovernmental agreements that would provide the County with cost savings similar to regionalization with respect to municipal solid waste recycling and landfill disposal options.
- Managed three public hearings on the Plan.
- Prepared final plan within budget and on schedule.
Successfully managed the identification of solid waste management technologies and assessed the relative merits of those technologies as part of the solid waste management planning efforts for the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The technology identification and assessment phase of the project was the corner stone of the subsequent solid waste management plan.
- Developed a database of solid waste management technology in use or planned for use in the United States.
- Provided a detailed assessment of the capability, economics, and requirements of each technology.
- Presented the technologies and their assessments in a structured dialog format in a public meeting.
Evaluated the available landfill capacity and alternatives to landfill for the City of Newark, New Jersey, as part of preparation of documents to stay the closing of the Hackensack Meadowlands landfill, the largest landfill in New Jersey and the current home of the Hackensack Meadowlands Sports Complex.
- Prepared volume calculations for the landfills in the Hackensack Meadowlands complex.
- Prepared expert testimony establishing sufficient volume to continue landfill use.
- Completed project on schedule and within budget constraints.
Drinking Water Sludge Management Plan, DesPlains, Illinois.
- Based on high radium levels in the water source strata the water treatment lime sludges exhibited excessive levels of radioactivity.
- Assisted in the development of a new regulatory schemata for these wastes.
- Developed special permitting to ensure proper handling of marginally radioactive lime sludges.
- Revised facility Operations Plan to meet the requirements of the special permitting.
Water Treatment Sludge Management Plan.
- Developed lime sludge, from drinking water treatment, evaluation and acceptance techniques for landfill facilities in Michigan and Illinois.
- Researched lime sludge drying and calcining techniques for developing agricultural and wastewater treatment-quality lime.
Feasibility Study of a 300 TPD of yard wastes, landscape wastes, and municipal leaf collection wastes composting facility.
- Compared static pile, aerated pile, and in-vessel composting.
- Developed comparative designs and
- Comparative economics.
Developed public participation program to obtain public acceptance of privatizing county landfill. The project would occur at no cost to the County, the project would be totally funded by increasing daily tonnage to 1000 tons. Nine hundred tons per day of waste would come from outside the county.
Geochemistry of wastewater
- Determined source-sink relationships for nitrogen and phosphorus in marine sediments as for the Cape May County Utilities Authority, New Jersey.
- The nitrogen and phosphorous data was used in the siting and design of two ocean outfalls.