EDUCATION

M.S. - Civil Engineering, University of Kansas, 1994

B.S. - Civil Engineering, University of Kansas, 1985

B A. - English, Kenyon College, 1973

  PROFESSIONAL LICENSES

Professional Engineer – Kansas, Iowa, and Louisiana

  PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ms. English is a program director with experience leading project teams performing environmental engineering activities at multiple sites.  Her experience ranges from environmental audits and due diligence to remediation construction with clients that include private corporations, municipalities, and state and federal agencies. She has extensive experience in managing complex environmental investigations, including development of statistically-based sampling plans and monitoring programs. She has also initiated and managed design-build  remedial construction projects that have included asbestos/lead inspections and abatement, demolition, excavation and containment, and ground water treatment system installation and startup.

Since joining SCS, Ms. English has managed or directed a variety of environmental projects.  Examples include:

• Environmental investigation and risk assessment for Kansas City, Missouri, Parks and Recreation Department. Investigation involves surface soil sampling over 88 acres to collect data that is being used in a human health risk assessment. The risk assessment will evaluate risk associated with exposure to lead in soil using the Integrated Exposure Uptake Biokinetic Model for Lead in Children.

• Multiple environmental audits and compliance for a confidential private client at warehouse facilities. Audits evaluate compliance with local, state, and federal regulations governing solid and hazardous waste, wastewater and storm water, air quality, oil spill prevention, above-ground and underground storage tanks, and emergency planning and community right-to-know.  Compliance follow up involves preparing Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure plans, Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans, and Hazardous Waste Management Plans.

Prior to joining SCS, her professional experience included the following:

• Coordinated vulnerability assessments for eight community water utilities serving populations greater than 50,000 persons. The assessments completed in 2002 involved three separate project teams performing concurrent assessments using two different methodologies and included surveys of water facilities ranging from dams, reservoirs, and ground water supply wells to distribution pump stations and piping. Developed templates for vulnerability assessment proposals, inspections, and reports that improved cost-effectiveness by standardizing these tasks.

• Responsible for planning, budgeting, scheduling, and technical control of environmental work at 27 sites for a major Midwest utility. Site activities ranged from negotiations with state and federal regulators through investigations, pilot studies, and design/construction.

  • Developed statistically-based monitoring programs that standardized procedures and documents to maximize efficiency and reduce costs in the overall program.

  • Implemented a design-build approach to provide complete construction services, which minimized construction costs and expedited the schedule. Construction projects included asbestos/lead inspections and abatement, demolition, and ground water treatment system installation and startup.

  • Evaluated and implemented a variety of cost-saving techniques including use of field tests, onsite laboratories, geoprobing and hydropunching, geophysical methods, and chemical fingerprinting.

  • Implemented technologies ranging from source and soil stabilization, excavation, and ground water extraction and treatment to soil vapor extraction, thermal desorption. and natural attenuation.

• Managed remedial investigation/feasibility study (RI/FS), engineering evaluation/cost analysis (EL/CA), and removal action for proposed Superfund site for major Southern utility.    

  • Supported client in negotiations with EPA on administrative orders on consent, work planning documents, and proposed plan for the removal action. Successfully negotiated to limit scope of removal action to treatment of area of exposed contamination and ground water remediation to a natural attenuation evaluation.

  • Supervised field investigation under initial full-time EPA oversight. Quality and efficiency of the investigation led EPA to suspend full-time oversight. Successfully demonstrated that contaminated ground water was not having a measurable impact on river surface water or sediment. Used quantitative ecological risk assessment to demonstrate that site was not affecting an adjacent wetland.

  • Managed development of engineering design documents and resident engineering for dredging and capping of contaminated sediment. Negotiated with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the state of Louisiana to meet permit requirements for dredging, discharge of treated water to the river, and air emissions. Successfully provided technical support to client to minimize disputed contractor costs.

• Managed remedial investigation for USACE at a former air force base, including landfill, burn pan, and low level radiation area in accordance with USACE extensive guidance and review procedures, including tracking, management, and validation of data using a geographic data management/information system. Successfully demonstrated that no further action was required in any of the areas.

• Managed and performed RI/FSs, EE/CAs, pilot studies, remedial actions, RCRA facility assessments (RFAs), RCRA corrective measures study (CMS), and oversight of removal actions for private, state, and federal clients.

• Supervised all technical site-related activities, including field investigations, treatability studies, and design and implementation of an in situ bioremediation pilot study and a remedial action including source and soil removal and onsite ground water extraction and treatment for the Fairfield Superfund site for IES Utilities Inc.

• Conducted four RFAs, an EE/CA for the Vertac Chemical Corporation dioxin Superfund site, oversight of the removal action at the Dutchtown Oil Treatment Facility, and two operable unit RI/FSs for the Kern-Pest Laboratories site under the REM IV contract for EPA.

• Evaluated alternatives for remediation of contaminated ground water that would be compatible with design of a new training area in a CMS for a fire protection area at Offut Air Force Base.

• Directed two phased feasibility studies for soil and ground water at the LaSalle Electrical Utilities Superfund site for the Illinois EPA.

  PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Published papers in Civil Engineering, Vol. 62, No. 3 and Bioremediation of Pollutants in Soil and Water, 1995.   Prepared or presented papers at various conferences including AWWA, AWMA GTI, and ASTM.  Delivered papers at London Contaminated Land conference in 1996 and Manufactured Gas Plant symposium in Prague in 1995.  Complete list and copies of papers available upon request.