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.