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Personnel

Following are summaries of the credentials for GEI personnel.  Detailed resumés are available upon request.

Mr. I. Keith Gordon, P.E., serves as Principal Engineer and President for Gordon Environmental, Inc. (GEI).  He has over 34 years of engineering experience in the planning, design and execution of complex environmental projects.  Many of Mr. Gordon’s projects are solid, hazardous and radioactive waste management facilities, including landfills, transfer stations, and materials recovery facilities (MRFs); as well as landfill gas control/recovery systems.  Successful implementation of these projects routinely involves compliance with an array of regulatory requirements.  Mr. Gordon has extensive project experience with USEPA RCRA Subtitle C (Hazardous) and Subtitle D (Solid) Waste Programs; Federal (CERCLA) and State Superfund remediations; and local siting/zoning approvals.  He regularly provides expert witness testimony at public hearings and in legal proceedings.  Mr. Gordon was appointed to the Technical Advisory Committee providing assistance to USEPA on national solid waste facility siting issues; and was retained as editor for EPA’s “Solid Waste Transfer Stations:  A Manual for Decision Making”.

Mr. Charles Fiedler, P.E., serves as a Senior Project Director for Gordon Environmental, Inc.  He has over 33 years of experience in municipal solid waste and environmental engineering, and is a nationally recognized expert in landfill construction and landfill gas system design and development. Mr. Fiedler has both a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Texas A & M University specializing in solid waste management.  Mr. Fiedler was the Engineer-of-Record for leachate recirculation and bioreactor development for the City of Denton, Texas landfill; the design, and permitting of the West Texas Regional Landfill near Lubbock, Texas; and the Clint Landfill near El Paso, Texas, among others.  In New Mexico, he was responsible for the initial Permitting of Dog Canyon Landfill in Alamogordo, NM and the WMNM Landfill in Rio Rancho, NM.  Mr. Fiedler has supervised Permit Application development and quality assurance for over 2,000 acres of landfill construction across the southwest US, including four landfill projects in NM.

Mr. Jerry L. Kamieniecki, P.E., serves as a Project Engineer for Gordon Environmental, Inc.  He has over 27 years of professional experience in managing a wide variety of complex environmental projects.  These projects have included detailed environmental studies of solid waste disposal facilities, industrial manufacturing operations, abandoned hazardous waste sites, and petroleum storage facilities.  Responsibilities as Senior Project Manager on these projects require assigning and scheduling personnel; supervising field and data management activities; providing technical support to assigned personnel; acquiring specialty services from subcontractor firms; and acting as a liaison with the client, regulatory agencies and the public.  Mr. Kamieniecki is also active with professional organizations such as Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA), and served as New Mexico Chapter President from 2001 to 2003.  Mr. Kamieniecki is actively involved with the New Mexico Roadrunner Chapter of the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA).  He has served on the Board of Directors since 1997 and has been active in organizing, promoting, moderating and making presentations at local symposia.  He currently serves as Chapter President.

Mr. Michael J. Crepeau, P.E., serves as Project Manager for Gordon Environmental, Inc.  His experience encompasses a wide variety of solid waste issues, primarily related to landfill engineering and regulatory compliance.  His responsibilities include management of environmental monitoring projects, landfill preliminary screening and permitting, landfill gas and groundwater sampling/reporting, groundwater monitoring training, and groundwater statistics. Additional experience includes preparation of Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPPs) for 12 airports, 2 Landfills, and 4 transfer stations in New Mexico.  He has also provided Tier 2 sample probe installation and sample collection oversight, and performed Tier 2 testing, reporting, and emissions calculations for landfills in New Mexico and Arizona.

Mr. Michael Heinstein, P.E., is a Senior Project Engineer with Gordon Environmental, Inc.  He has 23 years of experience in environmental and civil engineering and is well versed with regulations and guidelines in a number of states. His responsibilities include landfill permitting and design, stormwater management, specification writing, compliance reporting, environmental construction management and construction quality assurance.

Ms. Dacia R. Tucholke serves as a Project Manager for Gordon Environmental, Inc.  Her experience encompasses a wide variety of solid waste related issues.  Her responsibilities include project management on landfill permitting and regulatory compliance projects, site characterization for solid waste, hazardous and radioactive waste processing and disposal facilities, and State and Federal environmental regulatory compliance.  Ms. Tucholke has served as both a project and field manager for varied Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs), groundwater monitoring, and continued investigations.  She has experience with geologic data management and served in this role on a subcontracted Federal project for Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).  She has also prepared environmental monitoring reports and collected environmental samples.  In addition, Ms. Tucholke has served as a cultural resources professional conducting research, survey, excavation, and material culture analyses.  She has managed site investigations including the research and evaluation of characteristics such as topography, access, water resources and supply wells, floodplains, seismic stability and geology, cultural and biological resources, and site use history. 

Mr. Jerome M. Curley, E.I.T.,  serves as Staff Engineer for Gordon Environmental, Inc.   His experience encompasses a wide variety of solid waste related issues, primarily within landfill engineering.  His responsibilities include preparation of site-specific Contract Documents and Technical Specifications, landfill permitting and regulatory compliance, landfill preliminary screening, landfill gas and groundwater sampling, air permitting, groundwater monitoring training, and preparation of landfill gas and groundwater monitoring reports. He has prepared the Technical Specifications for landfill closure and cell construction.  Specifically Mr. Curley has performed Settlement, Drainage, and Erosion calculations necessary for landfill permitting. Waste diversion technologies; groundwater monitoring; as-built documentation and Summary Report.

Mr. Michael L. Hermann serves as a Senior Geologist for Gordon Environmental, Inc.  He has over 24 years of professional experience in a wide variety of geologic projects.  These projects have included geothermal resource and mineral resource exploration.  His education concentrated on natural, earth, architectural, environmental and engineering sciences.

Mr. Andrew Yuhas serves as a Project Scientist for Gordon Environmental, Inc.  His assignments focus on a wide variety of solid waste issues primarily associated with Applications for Solid Waste Facility Permits and Regulatory compliance.  His responsibilities include the preparation of permit applications, preparing landfill gas and groundwater monitoring reports, and the collection of environmental samples.

Ms. Jewel F. Paschke serves as Technical Assistant for Gordon Environmental, Inc.  Her assignments focus on Autocad Design Drafting and Mapping, compilation of survey data to generate existing site condition mapping, design of intermediate and final grading plans.  Cross-section drawings, drainage plans, leachate line and pond drafting, engineering details and associated supporting graphics as needed.