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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 30 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. Jerry L. Kamieniecki, P.E., serves as a Project Engineer for Gordon Environmental, Inc.  He has over twenty-three 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 20 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.

Mr. Larry M. Coons, P.E., serves as Project Director for Gordon Environmental, Inc. (GEI).  Mr. Coons possesses over 25 years of professional experience in New Mexico and throughout the Southwest Rocky Mountain area.  He is a certified Diplomat of Environmental Engineering through the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, and is the only Diplomat in New Mexico certified in the specialty of Solid Waste Management.  Mr. Coons possesses unique credentials in his training and education, which combine geology hydrogeology, and applied engineering.  Mr. Coons has served as an expert in both judicial and quasi-judicial proceedings.  His is a classified expert witness in groundwater hydrology, aquifer hydraulics, disposal cell performance assessments, and civil engineering.

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 twenty 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.

Ms. Sarah Fretz serves as Engineering Technician for Gordon Environmental, Inc.  Her assignments focus on environmental sampling (groundwater, landfill gas, soils), boring and monitoring well installation, CQA oversight for composite liner installation, and compliance reporting.

Mr. Don Gray serves as Engineering Technician for Gordon Environmental, Inc.  His assignments focus on environmental sampling (groundwater, landfill gas, soils), boring and monitoring well installation, CQA oversight for composite liner installation, and compliance reporting.

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.