Environmental Repair Consultants: 6

Robin D. Franks, PG, CHMM, RSO has over 30 years of relevant industry experience as a professional Geoscientist / Geologist and Certified Hazardous Materials Manager. Ms. Franks has been the President, Founding Principal, and Managing Director of TGE Resources, Inc., for over 30 years. Her specialties include Real Property Assessment and Characterization, Clean-up, and Closure in the commercial, industrial, oil and gas, and healthcare industries. 

Consulting Services Include:

• Real Property Assessment
• Industrial Compliance Auditing
• Oil and Gas Real Estate Clean-up
• Well Blow-out / Underground Storage Tank Project Management
• Redevelopment, Clean Closure Services
• Asbestos - Sick Building Management
• Lead-based Paint Management
• Industrial Hygiene / Indoor Environmental Quality - Mold / Fungus Assessment, Testing, and Remediation

Ms. Franks has been actively involved in more than 35 "merger/acquisition" projects encompassing over 750 sites nationwide. As senior Technical Advisor, she has been involved in thousands of real property investigations, many of which have involved remediation/closure projects within Texas and throughout the United States. Ms. Franks is a professional lecturer who delivers presentations and instruction throughout the United States.

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Dr. Dennis Stainken has over 30 years of Industrial and Government experience managing Pollution Control and Hazardous Waste Projects. His experience includes assignments in engineering, analytical and toxicology sciences for regulatory compliance, product registration, risk assessment, technology development.

Dr. Stainken is a national expert in Environmental Toxicology & Ecological Research on the transport, fate and effect of pollutants, and in quality assurance in government and industry.

Areas of Expertise:

Health Effects Toxicology Chemical Exposure Health Issues/Physiology/Chemistry Water & Waste Water Ecological Services Contamination & Remediation Analytical Chemistry

Natural Resource Damage Assessments Property Assessments Hazardous Waste Water Quality Risk Assessment Wetlands Industrial Services Gasoline & Oil Issues

Peninsula Urban Forestry is a Tree, Plant, and Ecological consultancy with a philosophy of holistic, preventative care. They specialize in urban trees and landscapes, plant pathology, plant health, marine and freshwater shorelines, steep slopes, and native landscapes.

Arborist Services:

Preventive Tree Care Tree and Plant Health Care Tree Risk Assessment Tree and Landscape Appraisal

Advanced Tree Diagnostics Tree Management Training Tree Protection Plans

John Bornsworth, Owner and Consulting Arborist has a decade of progressive experience in the practice and management of Arboriculture, Horticulture, Restoration Ecology, Vegetation Management, Plant Pathology, and Mycology.

Credentials:

• Member, American Society of Consulting Arborists
• International Society of Arboriculture Certified Arborist
• ISA Certified Municipal Specialist
• Qualified Tree Risk Assessor
• WSDA Licensed Commercial Applicator with aquatic, horticultural and right-of-way endorsements
• WA Dept. of Ecology, Western Washington Wetlands Rating System Certificate
• Graduate of the rigorous Community Tree Management Institute (CTMI). Hosted by Urban and Community Forestry programs in Oregon and Washington

Affiliations:

• Member, Society of Consulting Arborists
• Member of the International Society of Arborists
• Member of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the ISA
• Member of the Society of Municipal Arborists
• Member of the Society of Ecological Restoration

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Philip T. Tringale, PhD, PE is a registered Professional Civil Engineer with over 25 years of Environmental Consulting experience. Dr. Tringale has served in senior technical and management positions throughout his thirty year professional career. With experience gained from a start-up consulting firm as well as from well-established engineering companies, he continues to focus his energies on leading technical projects and overseeing technical and geographic expansion activities.

Consulting Services Include:

• Site Assessment and Remediation Program Direction
• Mergers & Acquisitions Assistance
• Public Participation Programs
• Regulatory Agency Interaction
• Litigation Support for Litigation involving Source Identification, Nature and Extent of Contamination, Cost Allocation, and Compliance with the National Contingency Plan

As a registered professional engineer, Dr. Tringale has directed numerous site assessments and remediation programs involving soil and groundwater contaminated primarily by organic solvents, metals, and petroleum products. He has particular expertise in site characterization and in the use of in-situ testing to evaluate soil properties. Dr. Tringale has provided final design for remedial actions that involve excavation, containment, bioremediation, vacuum extraction, monitoring, and groundwater treatment.

Selected Projects:

• Historic Schlage Lock manufacturing complex in San Francisco which was rezoned mixed-use commercial and residential. Services included excavation of sumps and contaminated soils, and the design and installation of a soil vapor extraction system to remove volatile organic compounds
• Contra Costa Waste Service Landfill - provided monitoring, remedial planning, and design of landfill closure services for this Superfund Landfill site

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Dr. James J. Connors is a certified Professional Hydrologist and a licensed Professional Geoscientist with more than 39 years of experience. He has worked across the U.S. and in New Zealand on hydrological, hydrogeological, and environmental consulting projects / cases. Dr. Connors has also taught university-level hydrology and hydrogeology, received several awards for his professional and teaching / academic service activities, and been designated as an expert witness in more that 70 cases.  

His clients have included private citizens, attorneys, insurance companies, consulting firms, government agencies, & public / private companies. He has worked on sites contaminated with PFAS compounds, PCBs, benzene / BTEX, metals, chlorinated solvents, mercury, arsenic, nutrients, pesticides / nerve agents, herbicides, radiation, VOCs / SVOCs, disinfectants & related by-products, landfill leachate, crude oil & brine, fuel, explosives, unexploded ordinance, etc. His work has been at various facilities including oil, gas, & gasoline pipelines; landfills; chemical plants; leaking above-ground tanks & UST sites; refineries; fertilizer plants, casinos; neighborhoods & apartment / housing complexes; junk yards; theme parks; bottled water plants; agricultural & animal facilities (oyster, fish, alligator, & dairy / CAFO); construction sites; estuaries & bays; commercial & residential properties; beaches, rivers, ponds, & lakes; oil & gas fields; accident sites; railroad facilities; airports; water & sewage treatment plants; chemical & oil spill sites; military bases; & others.

Dr. Connors' hydrology consulting services include:

• Contamination Assessments/Investigations
• Stormwater Inspections & Management (BMPs)
• Groundwater Modeling & Statistical Analysis
• Contract Research into Environmental Issues
• Presentations to the Public & Regulatory Agencies

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Advanced Building Consultants provides expert services for a wide range of Construction and Environmental issues. Their clients include homeowners, insurance companies, businesses, and attorneys. Advanced Building Consultants serves clients throughout the Southeastern United States.

Construction Services: Construction Management Building Codes Building Construction Roofing Cost Estimating

Environmental Services: Causation and Origin Healthy Habitat Remediation Damage Estimates

Principal, Clinton J. Ford, MS, ACA, CGC, CIAQM, CIE, CMR, CRMI, is a former Continuing Education Sponsor for the Florida Construction Licensing Board and has been a licensed Florida Certified General Contractor since 1981. He has many years of construction experience on projects ranging from $5,000 to $50,000,000 and has been providing consulting and expert witness work for both construction and environmental issues since 1994.

Mr. Ford has obtained both field experience and education in the following four distinct but often related disciplines of Construction, Environmental, Real Estate and Insurance, and holds many titles and over thirty years of construction experience with twenty-five years as a State Certified General Contractor.

Over the years Mr. Ford has combined his extensive construction knowledge with cause and origin of water intrusion and environmental issues offering an exceptional understanding of Building Science and its relationship to contamination from biological agents such as toxic mold, mycotoxins, bacteria and endotoxin’s.

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