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Panther
Technologies, Inc - Key Personnel |
| Peter
J. Palko, P.E., CHMM |
• Technical
Specialties
• Experience
Summary
• Credentials
• Professional
Affiliations
• Key
Projects |
| Technical Specialties |
| Decontamination
and Demolition; Mechanical, Industrial, and Civil engineering
design; soil and ground-water investigation and remediation;
remedial option analyses and cost estimating; treatment
systems construction and design; production, injection,
monitoring, observation, and recovery wells design; Vertical
turbine, submersible, and diaphragm pump design; UST investigations
and remediations; construction and project management. |
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| Experience Summary |
| 14 years
experience: General Manager/Senior Project Manager for
Panther Technologies, Inc.
Formerly, Vice President with Site Management Inc. (Roux
Subsidiary 1999); Principal, Senior and Project Engineer
at Roux Associates, Inc. (1991 to 2000); Senior Project
Manager at A.C. Schultes (1988-1991). Managed numerous
investigative and remediation activities at sites throughout
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia,
Connecticut, and New York. Principal areas of management
and engineering responsibility have included proposal
preparation to project completion in RCRA, CERCLA, and
multiple State remedial investigations and design, environmental
capping and remediation, landfill leachate recovery and
treatment systems; air pollution control evaluation and
design, municipal water treatment plants; innovative technology
implementation, SVE/air sparge/reactor wall design, and
design of mechanical, civil and electrical systems. |
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| Credentials |
• B.S.
Commerce and Engineering/Operations Management Drexel
University, Philadelphia, PA
• Licensed Professional Engineer (DE,
PA, OH)
• Certified Hazardous Materials Manager
(#7025)
• NJ Licensed Soil Boring Installer (#B0327)
• NJ Licensed Water Treatment Superintendent
(#T-3082)
• NJ Licensed Water Distribution Superintendent
(#W-2669)
• NJ Certified Subsurface Evaluator (#0003318)
• NJ Certified Closure (#0003318)
• OSHA 40-hour Health and Safety Training
• OSHA 8-hour Supervisor Training |
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| Professional Affiliations |
• Institute
of Industrial Engineers
• National Water Well Association |
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| Key Projects |
• Provided
project management and engineering services for a $2MM
remedial construction project at the Lipari Landfill (#1
NPL) in NJ which consisted of drilling and installing
twenty-two, 6-inch diameter, stainless-steel extraction
wells, eleven 6-inch diameter injection wells, one 250
gpm double cased production well for potable supply, and
landfill perimeter monitoring wells. Involved in submersible
pump design installations and disposal of over 1,000 drums
of hazardous waste including lab packing, approvals, loading,
manifesting, and complete removal of six waste streams.
• Provided senior project management and
technical engineering supervision on over 100 remedial
engineering/ construction projects including the development,
implementation, data evaluation and reporting of numerous
SVE and air sparging remedial programs in Pennsylvania,
Delaware, New York and New Jersey.
• Developed equipment specifications and
final design drawings for dozens of ground-water pump
and treat, free product recovery, air sparging, SVE, air
stripping, UV/oxidation, catalytic oxidation and thermal
incineration systems ranging in water flows from 5 to
2,200 gpm and air flows from 100 to 500 SCFM in Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and New York.
• Provided project management and engineering
services for a Fortune 500 industrial client during a
CERCLA Remedial Investigation of their Marcus Hook, PA
site which included full-time site supervision during
the installation of over 150 test pits. Compounds investigated
included asbestos, metals, VOCs, SVOCs, PCBs and cyanide.
• Provided project management and senior
engineering services for a Fortune 500 industrial client
during a $5MM remedial cleanup of PCB-impacted soils to
a depth of thirty feet BGS including the design and construction
of a 100 gpm temporary ground-water treatment system and
injection trench, vertical barriers to 55 feet BGS, and
grading plan design and installation of a 2-acre encapsulated
area.
• Provided senior engineering services
for the design of a ground-water pump and treat system
for #6 fuel oil, gasoline and sulfuric acid including
a multiple extraction well array, conveyance piping, treatment
plant and components, and distribution piping to a secondary
on-site treatment system for a major pigments manufacturer
located in Pennsylvania.
• Provided senior engineering and compliance
services involving the preparation of a facility SPCC
plan for an international communications client's site
located in Queenstown, Maryland following the release
and remediation of 2,000 gallons of #2 fuel oil to a neighboring
surface-water body.
• Provided senior engineering services
for the design and installation of a 2,200 gpm pesticide
contaminated ground-water treatment project in Dayton,
New Jersey consisting of an Old Bridge aquifer extraction
system, three 1,100 gpm injection wells, mechanical piping,
control instrumentation, and custom well heads and concrete
vaults, for a Fortune 500 industrial client.
• Provided senior engineering services
for the installation of a 250 SCFM combined ground-water
pump and treat and SVE extraction system utilizing five
6-inch extraction wells, pneumatic recovery pumps, over
600 feet of vapor and ground-water discharge pumping,
a fully-operational treatment compound equipped with oil/water
separation, bag filtration, and carbon adsorption equipment
for ground-water treatment and thermal/catalytic oxidation
for vapor-phase treatment. All system components including
instrumentation were installed with a fully operational
PLC and complete telemetry control to operate remotely.
• Provided senior engineering and civil
design services for a one-acre asphalt cap and one-half
acre vegetated cap for a Fortune 500 client located in
Kenilworth, New Jersey. Design services included using
DCA civil engineering software to prepare cross-sections
for stream encroachment, waterfront development and wetlands
permit approvals.
• Performed over thirty remedial options
analyses and cost estimates for numerous in-situ and ex-situ
remedial technologies for both soils and ground water
ranging from multi-thousand dollar excavation projects
to $60MM thermal incineration projects.
• Provided senior engineering design services
for a Fortune 500 client in Slatington, PA for the transportation
and disposal of over 350,000 gallons of treatment plant
lagoon aqueous and sediment contents and the closure of
four treatment lagoons associated with chrome pigment
manufacturing including backfilling, geotechnical compaction,
and the installation of a vegetated cap.
• Provided design and construction management
for new municipal pumping station that collected storm
water flow from the Borough of Sayreville, New Jersey.
The project included the redesign and construction of
three 10,000 gpm vertical turbine pumps, a sheet-piled
detention area with surface grating, 24-inch effluent
piping and a concrete weir.
• Provided project management for two
new 150' deep production wells and well houses in Medford
Township, NJ equipped with vertical turbine pumps and
a $1MM treatment plant which treated iron, manganese,
as well as organics using manganese greensand pressure
filtration, carbon adsorption, gas chlorination and pH
adjustment.
• Provided project management and engineering
services for the installation of over 200 production,
extraction, injection, and monitoring wells throughout
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and New York
utilizing auger, mud, reverse, and air rotary drilling
methods ranging in diameters from 2 to 48 inches and depths
to 2,250 feet.
• Provided senior management and engineering
services for a project consisting of three triple-cased
production wells and well houses with a new $3MM treatment
plant consisting of eight 10½' diameter vertical-pressure
filters, potassium permanganate and lime feed, sodium
hypochlorite feed, backwash recycle system, and full distribution
system between new wells and plant including 3,000 feet
of 12" D.I.P. of force mains and 1,500 feet of concrete-reinforced
sanitary sewers.
• Designed over 100 permanent vertical
turbine and submersible pump installations ranging from
5 to 10,000 gpm including ancillary equipment such as
column pipe, discharge heads, hollow-shaft motors, controls,
well houses, and manholes. Criteria evaluated included
bowl diameter, impeller tolerances, shaft lengths and
diameter, shaft elongation, and total dynamic head.
• Provided project management and engineering
for two new 1300' production wells and well houses into
the Raritan Formation for Manchester Township, NJ and
a 2050' production well and treatment plant upgrades for
NJAWC in Brick Township, NJ.
• Provided project management and engineering
for an 18" x 12" x 700' deep production well
for the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland including
pumping equipment, wellhouse, and distribution piping.
• Performed and designed over thirty 72-hour
aquifer pumping tests including evaluation of hydrologic
data for production well and permanent pump design.
• Provided compliance consulting services
involving the preparation and obtainment of waterfront
development, stream encroachment, and freshwater wetlands
permits for a fortune 500 industrial client in northern
New Jersey as part of a remedial action. Additional compliance
services included the preparation of a RCRA contingency
plan; coordinating with local officials, emergency services
coordinators and health officials regarding community
relations programs; and obtainment of DGW and Treatment
Works Approval waivers from the State of New Jersey.
• Provided senior engineering services
for the design and installation of a total fluids/LNAPL
recovery and ground-water treatment system for treatment
of a kerosene plume for a major industrial client's RCRA
facility in Nitro, West Virginia. Additional design considerations
included utilizing chemical sequestering agents and biocides
associated with excessively high iron.
• Provided CERCLA project management and
senior engineering services for the preparation of two
90-page technical/legal response documents defending a
position not to list an industrial client's Pennsylvania
site in USEPA Region II regarding an inflated HRS score
received by our client. The site has since been successful
in receiving approval by PADEP to enter the Act 2 process
and thus prevent listing.
• Provided project management and engineering
for the installation of ten recovery and monitoring wells,
and an on-site air stripping and carbon adsorption system
at an Air Force Base in Niagara Falls, New York.
• Provided project management and senior
engineering services for a Fortune 500 industrial client
in regard to a petroleum contaminated soils project in
Camden, New Jersey. Project requirements included completion
of the fast-tracked project in an eight-week period and
consisted of preparations of plans and specifications,
completion of a bidding process, construction management
and reporting for removal of over 1000 cubic yards of
contaminated soils to a depth of 20 feet.
• Provided CERCLA consulting engineering
support and preparation of expert opinions for a Fortune
500 industrial client in regard to an attempt by private
parties and USEPA to name their former manufacturing facility
as a source of PCB contamination along the Passaic River.
• Provided senior engineering services
to a Fortune 500 client at their Portland, Connecticut
facility involving the remediation of LNAPL contaminated
ground water. An LNAPL extraction well array consisting
of 11 extraction wells was installed and manifolded to
a custom designed total fluids mobile SVE system consisting
of a 25HP blower, electric control valves, moisture separator,
controls, trailer and capable of being operated via remote
telemetry
• Provided senior engineering services
for the design and installation of a total fluids/LNAPL
recovery and ground-water treatment system for treatment
of a kerosene plume for a major industrial client's RCRA
facility in Nitro, West Virginia. Additional design considerations
included utilizing chemical sequestering agents and biocides
associated with excessively high iron.
• Provided senior engineering services
for the design of landfill leachate extraction, conveyance,
and treatment systems associated with landfill closure
activities on a CERCLA site in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.
Specific activities included preparation of design drawings
and specifications for the treatment of 12,000,000 gallons
of heavy metals contaminated leachate. Treatment components
included chemical precipitation, sand and bag filtration,
and ion exchange filtration
• Provided project management and senior
engineering services for the remedial investigation and
design of a chlorinated VOC ground-water plume consisting
of TCA and TCE. Remedial alternatives which were pilot
tested and extensively evaluated included ex-situ pump
and treat technologies, in-situ SVE/methane sparge curtains,
and in-situ reactor walls. A remedial action work plan
is currently being prepared for this New Jersey site which
documents the extensive reductive dechlorination which
is occurring naturally.
• Provided project management and senior
engineering services in regard to a pharmaceutical company's
printing operation. Services included preparation of air
emissions inventory and numerous air permits for submission
to the State of New Jersey. Additional activities performed
included preparation of an air emissions report and engineering
reports associated with the use of an existing 12,000
SCFM recuperative thermal oxidizer. At the request of
our client, extension HVAC and oxidizer replacement evaluations
were conducted and included 20,000 SCFM recuperative,
catalytic and regenerative thermal oxidizers.
• Provided construction management and
engineering support for the U.S. Department of Corrections
at the Federal Correctional Complex in Fairton, New Jersey
including the installation of 2 well houses with miscellaneous
piping and pumps, installation of over 1200 linear feet
of water main, construction of a water treatment plant
consisting of cation exchange filters, water softening
systems, and chlorination chemical feed equipment. This
project also involved the implementation of an operation
and maintenance program and supervisory operator training.
• Provided Principal engineering for a
100 SCFM SVE system in Millville, NJ for a private retail
gasoline supply company. System components include two
soil vapor extraction wells, a 2 hp regenerative blower,
a 100 SCFM catalytic oxidizer, and related control and
electrical apparatus. Ongoing system monitoring and maintenance
is performed for state regulatory compliance.
• Provided Principal engineering associated
with a combination ground-water SVE (100 SCFM) remediation
system in Brooklawn, NJ for a private retail gasoline
supply company. System construction included the installation
of multiple vapor and water pipelines in approximately
140' of trench, construction of a metal building with
concrete foundation and floor, retrofitting of 3 wells
for the purposes of ground-water and soil vapor extraction,
installation of a 100 amp electrical service with explosion-proof
components, installation of control and telemetry equipment,
and the installation of remedial equipment including an
iron filtration unit, liquid phase carbon absorption units,
and a catalytic oxidizer. Ongoing system monitoring and
maintenance is performed for state and county regulatory
compliance.
• Provided senior management and engineering
for the voluntary cleanup actions associated with seven
retail gasoline underground storage tank sites throughout
southern New Jersey. Tasks included coordination and completion
of ground-water gauging, bailing and sampling events,
and correspondence with state agencies concerning remediation
system performance and the progress of cleanup activities.
• Project Manager and Principal Engineer
for a RCRA sewer SWMU corrective measure project at a
large chemical manufacturing facility in West Virginia.
Project includes a $15MM sewer stabilization and rehabilitation
program. This facility sewer system dates back to 1915.
Negotiations with USEPA Region III were necessary to avoid
extensive integrity evaluations via video camera and subsequent
assessment of soil impact. The corrective measures requirements
were limited to the process sewers only and the existing
system can be left in place for all non-process waters
without rehabilitation. After extensive options evaluations,
a combined underground/aboveground new process sewer system
was selected.
• Project Manager and Principal Engineer
of a multi-million dollar RCRA Facility Investigation
and Corrective Measure Program for a 120-acre rubber chemical
plant in USEPA Region III. Project included successful
negotiations to target ground water as the primary media
of concern as only 26 soil borings were necessary to establish
that further soil investigations were not warranted. Ground-water
investigations included a study area approach focused
on the downgradient perimeter which is bordered by a major
river. Ground-water/surface-water modeling performed indicated
that concentrations are being diluted by a factor of 5,000
to 35,000. This modeling was used in conjunction with
a site-specific risk assessment to convince the USEPA
that corrective measures were warranted in only three
isolated hot-spot areas. The corrective measures study
was subsequently approved and design/implementation is
proceeding for LNAPL recovery, limited ground-water extraction
and in-situ biosparging in these three areas.
• Managed pre-design investigations and
final design for recovery of catastrophic releases of
product from No. 6 fuel oil and gasoline USTs. Project
design required significant geochemical analyses and material
compatibility considerations for recovery pumps and piping
due to acidic ground-water conditions. Implementation
is pending.
• Project manager and Principal Engineer
for a fast-tracked Phase III Remedial Investigation (RI)
and Remedial Action (RA) at a CT manufacturing facility
impacted with petroleum hydrocarbons and separate-phase
product. Project included negotiations to get project
into CT Urban Sites Renewal program to facilitate CTDEP
reviews. The RI field work and report were completed within
60 days and the RA Work Plan was approved by the CTDEP.
Remedial actions consisting of source soil removal and
off-site thermal desorption, and separate-phase product
recovery from six wells using high vacuum extraction were
completed within 9 months, and facilitated property sale
ahead of schedule.
• Principal-in-charge of design, permitting,
construction and operation of a combined SVE and ground-water
depression system for a PA site impacted by petroleum
hydrocarbons. System includes five soil vapor/ground-water
extraction wells; an oil-water separator; GAC units for
aqueous treatment; thermal catalytic oxidation unit for
vapor-phase treatment; and a sophisticated alarm/remote
control/telemetry/data acquisition system. In 12 months,
system achieved over 99% reduction of BTEX constituents
in vapor phase and ground water.
• After performing an evaluation of existing
stormwater treatment system, performed final design and
implementation of an upgraded treatment system for an
NPDES-permitted stormwater outfall in PA. Existing oil-water
separator was found to be grossly underdesigned and required
new equipment specifications to meet stringent discharge
limits under peak storm-water flow conditions (70 gpm).
Existing pumps and inline filters were reutilized to provide
system redundancy.
• Performed an evaluation and redesign
of an aging separate-phase product recovery system for
a chemical manufacturing facility in New Jersey. Redesign
included refurbishing and reuse of dual ground-water and
separate-phase product recovery pumps and specification
of skimming devices with automated controls to replace
ineffective ejector pumps in the recovery of weathered
No. 6 fuel oil. New system has been installed and has
resulted in significant O&M savings.
• Project manager and senior engineer
for spill response, investigation, remediation and upgrade
of fuel system for a training facility in MD. Project
included successful investigation and removal of 20,000
gallon UST, associated piping and impacted soils. Evaluation
of fuel usage led to a design of a dual replacement system,
using a much smaller manifolded duel AST system. Implementation
included preparation of SPCC plan and assistance in training
on-site personnel.
• Provided Principal engineering services
including a Professional Engineering certification for
a major Chemical Company's RCRA closure of a Spent Acid
Lagoon area located along the Delaware River in the State
of Delaware. Closure activities included the installation
of a subsurface limestone bed beneath a backfilled granular
layer to maintain neutral pH conditions associated with
acid discharges and runoff into the former lagoon area.
• Principal Engineer and Manager-in-Charge
of preparing over 50 pages of technical/legal responses
to USEPA Region IV regarding the proposed listing on the
National Priorities List (NPL) of Dredge Spoils Areas
(DSA's) neighboring our client's Pesticide Manufacturing
Facility in Brunswick, Georgia. The fast-turn project
required the development of expert technical opinions
and arguments including the preparation of responses over
a 30 day time frame. Experts opinions were provided on
a number of technical areas including ecological and toxilogical
factors (including slope and bioaccumulation factors)
used by USEPA to support their HRS score as well as previous
disposal practices and civil engineering related arguments
associated with the construction of the DSA's by the Corp
of Engineers.
• Provided Principal Engineering and setup
support of a pilot landfill gas extraction system for
a paper manufacturer landfill in Lee, Massachusetts. Tasks
performed on the project included pilot system layout,
procurement of materials and equipment, coordination of
electrical subcontractors for temporary power, construction
of the system including a 1000-foot PVC header, management
and performance of landfill gas static testing, system
step testing, and system constant rate testing, dismantlement
of the landfill gas extraction system, and preparation
of a landfill gas extraction test report including a preliminary
design of a permanent landfill gas extraction and treatment
system.
• Principal Engineer-in-Charge of a 300
gallon per minute air stripper system design to treat
TCE-contaminated drinking water for a municipal water
supply in central New Jersey. Tasks included the selection
of a proper low-profile air stripper and the associated
design of a building addition, water storage reservoir
modifications, electrical service modifications, control
equipment, and all mechanical piping. Tasks also included
the preparation of a complete specifications package using
CSI formats, preparation of contract design drawings,
management of the contractor bidding process, and overall
contractor and project management.
• Principal Engineer-in-Charge of a Feasibility
Study for the treatment of process and stormwater associated
with a major surfactant manufacturer's effluent discharge.
Influent concentrations ranged from 37,000 milligrams
per liter (mg/l) of COD to 15,000 mg/l of BOD with high
suspended and dissolved solids concentrations as well
as oil and grease. Options evaluated for batch treatment
(25 gpm plant) of the total combined effluent included
biological treatment alternatives (RBCs, SFBs, Mesophilic
reactors, thermophilic reactors), physical treatment options
(GAC, Reverse Osmosis, Distillation, Ion exchange, Zimpro
PACT), and chemical treatment options (ultraviolet, chlorine
dioxide, supercritical water oxidation, supercritical
carbon dioxide extraction). Thermophilic biological treatment
and distillation were identified as the most viable forms
of treatment based on our client's strategic objectives.
• Provided senior engineering and remediation
cost evaluations for two litigation support projects.
Both projects involved multi-million dollar cleanups and
had multiple remedial alternatives to be considered for
addressing areas of concern including: disposal pits,
lagoons, leachate, buried drums, and leaking tanks. |
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