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Landfill Postclosure Land Use Symposium

Todd Adair
Todd Adair is a principal at BKF Engineers (Civil Engineering and Surveying) in Redwood City, California. He has been the project manager for 10 postclosure landfill commercial developments throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento. In addition, Mr. Adair is currently working as a technical consultant for the City of Everett, Washington as they prepare for the commercial development of their 60-acre landfill along the Snohomish River north of Seattle.
E-mail: tadair@bkf.com Phone: (650) 482-6401 Website: www.BKF.com

Thomas J. Bois
Thomas J. Bois, J.D., REA, managing partner, Bois and Macdonald, has been in private practice for 23 years. Mr. Bois' law practice emphasizes the representation and counseling of businesses on a wide range of environmental issues including landfill closure and Brownfields redevelopment. He has written two legal reference books and is an instructor at the University of California, Irvine.
E-mail: tbois@boismac.com Phone: (949) 660-0011 Website: www.boismac.com

Amy Brownell
Amy Brownell, P. E. has over 20 years experience as an environmental engineer. The last 12 years, she has worked as a technical advisor and project engineer for the San Francisco Health Department, the SF Redevelopment Agency and other City Departments on the Navy’s cleanup of the Hunters Point Shipyard. Starting in 2005, she also has an oversight role on the redevelopment of Parcel A.
E-mail: amy.brownell@sfdph.org Phone: (415) 252-3967 Website: www.sfdph.org/eh/

Dennis Corcoran
Dennis Corcoran, M. Sc., is an environmental scientist at CIWMB. He has over 25 years of work experience with Cal/EPA programs including air, pesticides, solid waste, toxics and water. He is the principal author of Pollution Prevention Primer as well as Glyphosate (Roundup): A Water Quality Assessment.
E-mail: dcorcora@ciwmb.ca.gov Phone (916) 341-6395 Website: www.ciwmb.ca.gov

Don Dier, Jr., P.E.
Mr. Dier recently retired from the State of California. He has held positions with the CA Air Resources Board, CA Energy Commission, Department of General Services and, for the past 23 years, with the CA Integrated Waste Management Board. While with the Waste Board, he managed programs to develop waste-to-energy facilities; transport, store and dispose of waste tires; certify operators and inspectors of solid waste landfills; and permit, inspect and close solid waste facilities. He is currently under contract with the Permitting & Enforcement Division to assist with landfill postclosure activities.
E-mail: ddier@ciwmb.ca.gov Phone: (916) 324-6001 Website: www.ciwmb.ca.gov

R. Jeffrey Dunn, Ph.D., P.E., G.E.
Dr. Dunn, Senior Principal Engineer and the Solid Waste Practice Leader for Kleinfelder in Pleasanton, CA. He has over 29 year of experience working with solid waste disposal facilities and postclosure development of landfills.
E-mail: jdunn@Kleinfelder.com Phone: (925) 484-7000 Website: www.Kleinfelder.com

Patricia Henshaw
Patricia Henshaw is the supervisor for the LEA program for Orange County and started working for Orange County Environmental Health in 1984 and became the supervisor for the LEA section in 1992. She is a member of the Enforcement Advisory Council (EAC) and was a team member on the original Partnership taskforce group that was instrumental in establishing the LEA/CIWMB Partnership Conference. Patti is from Seattle, WA. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Seattle Pacific University, a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Health from University of WA, and a Master of Public Administration from California State University, Long Beach.
E-mail: phenshaw@ocha Phone: (714) 433-6270 Website: www.ocgov.com

Jeff Ludlow
Jeffrey Ludlow is a Senior Project Manager and partner at Treadwell & Rollo. He is a professional geologist and manages environmental projects for urban infill redevelopment programs. Mr. Ludlow developed Treadwell & Rollo’s vapor mitigation practice and has designed landfill gas and vapor control systems for over a dozen commercial and residential development projects.
E-mail: jfludlow@treadwellrollo.com Phone: (415) 955-9040 Website: www.treadwellrollo.com

Abel Martinez-Centeno
Abel Martinez-Centeno, Ch. Eng., MS C.E. is a waste management engineer working for the Closed Illegal and Abandoned Site Section at the CA Integrated Waste Management Board since December of 2000. With a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and a master’s degree in civil engineering he has over 10 years of experience in the chemical and environmental fields, providing technical and regulatory expertise to both the private sector and government agencies. While at the Board, he has worked in coordination with various LEAs performing phase I and phase II environmental assessments at closed sites focusing on landfill gas migration and control issues.
E-mail: amartine@ciwmb.ca.gov Phone: (916) 341-6724 Website: www.ciwmb.ca.gov

Joseph Mello
Joseph Mello is currently the Land Disposal Program Manager at the State Water Resources Control Board, where he is in charge of maintaining the $10 million program. He has also worked at two of the Regional Water Quality Control Boards and worked as an environmental consultant for 10 years. He is a California professional geologist and certified hydrogeologist.
E-mail: jmello@waterboards.ca.gov Phone: (916) 341-5622 Website: www.swrcb.ca.gov

Richard Montevideo
Mr. Montevideo obtained his BA in 1981 from Ohio State University, graduating summa cum laude, and received his JD from the Ohio State University College of Law in 1984. Mr. Montevideo has been with the law firm of Rutan & Tucker since 1984 and has been a partner since 1992. Mr. Montevideo is presently the Chair of the Orange County Bar Association, Environmental Law Section.
E-mail: rmontevideo@rutan.com Phone: (714) 662-4642 Website: www.rutan.com

Pete Oda
Pete Oda, REHS, has worked with the LA County Department of Health Services for 24 years. He now works in the Solid Waste Management Program where he is a supervisor in charge of seven field inspectors and is involved with all aspects of permitting, closure/postclosure, composting, transfer stations, and landfills.
E-mail: poda@ladha.org Phone: (626) 430-5541 Website: www.lacounty.info/

William O’Rullian
William O'Rullian, R.E.H.S., has over 25 years experience as an environmental health specialist for Los Angeles and Kern County. Since 1989, he has supervised the Kern County LEA Solid Waste Program.
E-mail: billo@co.kern.ca.us Phone: (661) 862-8731 Website: www.co.kern.ca.us

Dawn Owen
Dawn Owen is a waste management specialist at CIWMB with a bachelors degree in environmental studies (focus biology). She worked for the Air Resource Board for a year in vapor recovery before coming to the Waste Board. She now works in the Closed, Illegal and Abandoned Site Investigation Section, assisting LEA's with their closed sites.
E-mail: dawno@ciwmb.ca.gov Phone: (916) 341-6723 Website: www.ciwmb.ca.gov

Sigrida Reinis
Sigrida Reinis is a civil engineer at Treadwell & Rollo, Inc. with 20 years experience in construction management and environmental mitigation projects, providing a variety of technical and project management services for remediation and redevelopment projects. Dr. Reinis also provides vapor mitigation design services on urban infill redevelopment projects.
E-mail: sreinis@treadwellrollo.com Phone: (415) 955-9040 Website: www.treadwellrollo.com

Greg Schirle
Mr. Schirle has over 14 years experience as an environmental health specialist employed with the County of San Mateo, and nine years with the local enforcement agency for San Mateo County. As LEA, he has experience with over 30 landfill postclosure development projects in San Mateo County.
E-mail: gschirle@co.sanmateo.ca.us Phone: (650) 363-4797 Website: www.co.sanmateo.ca.us

Dorinda Shipman
Dorinda Shipman is a professional geologist and certified hydrogeologist with 19 years experience in managing military base redevelopment projects involving industrial, landfill, and petroleum sites. Ms. Shipman also directs groundwater flow and fate and transport modeling for risk assessments and remedial system design and optimization. She manages the environmental group in T&R’s San Francisco office.
E-mail: dcshipman@treadwellrollo.com Phone: (415) 955-9040 Website: www.treadwellrollo.com

Marty Strauss
Marty Strauss, Integrated Waste Planning Superintendent, City of Sacramento. Mr. Strauss has over 20 years experience managing landfills and doing city planning. He is educated in both natural resource management and city planning. Mr. Strauss currently works for the Department of Utilities, Solid Waste Services for the City of Sacramento. His duties include implementing the closure/postclosure requirements for the City’s closed landfill now being converted into Sutter Landing Park. When not commuting to Sacramento, Mr. Strauss lives in Colfax and works on remodeling his Victorian. Also, he writes novels.
E-mail: mstrauss@cityofsacramento.org Phone: (916) 433-4934 Website: www.cityofsacramento.org

Patrick S. Sullivan, R.E.A., C.P.P
Patrick Sullivan is the solid waste practice leader for SCS Engineers in California and is a national expert on landfill gas and air quality issues for landfills. He is the Chairman of the Rules and Regulations Committee of the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) Landfill Gas Division and a member of the CIWMB's Technical Advisory Group for landfill gas. He has directed over 25 projects in California related to landfill gas engineering, permitting, and compliance for active and inactive landfills.
E-mail: psullivan@scsengineers.com Phone: (916) 361-1297 Website: www.scsengineers.com

Gerardo Villalobos
Gerardo Villalobos has over 10 years of experience with LA County environmental health programs. He has experience inspecting transfer stations, waste haulers, and closed sites. He is currently the designated inspector at Sunshine Canyon Landfill in Sylmar where he oversees daily operations and technical document review.
E-mail: gvillalobos@ladhs.org Phone: (626) 430-5540 Website: www.lacounty.info/

Michael Wochnick
Michael Wochnick: Mr. Wochnick is the Senior Waste Management Engineer in charge of the Integrated Waste Management Board's Closure and Technical Services Section. He has been with the CIWMB for over 14 years. During this time he has been in charge of the Closure Section except for a brief time when he headed the EA Section. Previously, he spent 10 years with the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board where he was in charge of the Regulation and Enforcement Section, which was responsible for all permitting, inspection, monitoring, enforcement, and closure for all disposal sites. Mr. Wochnick is a registered professional engineer (civil) in the State of California.
E-mail: mwochnic@ciwmb.ca.gov Phone: (916) 341-6318 Website: www.ciwmb.ca.gov

Ben Woodside
Benjamin W. Woodside, ASLA, RLA, Principal: Mr. Woodside has over eight years experience as a landscape architect and site planner for Callander Associates Landscape Architecture, Inc. While at Callander Associates he has worked on several landfill postclosure development projects including; Sutter’s Landing Park Feasibility Study, Burlingame Landfill Sports Park and the Bayside Park Rehabilitation.
E-mail: bwoodside@cavalleyoffice.com Phone: (916) 631-1312 Website: www.callanderassociates.com

Landfill Postclosure Land Use Symposium

 

Last updated: November 01, 2007


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