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A River Runs Through It

October 15 @ 7:00 pm 8:30 pm

New Jersey has the most Superfund sites in the nation, despite being the fourth smallest state. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has embarked on an ambitious program to remediate these sites for public health and safety. In the last twenty years there has been an added push to restore these sites, often of large size, to open space and native wildlife habitat.

Early on, Bob Swain of the Dawson Corporation (now SumCo Eco Contracting) decided to pursue these projects. He obtained all the hazardous waste credentials and invested in equipment and workforce to comply with strict EPA and Army Corps of Engineers requirements for work of this nature.

Bill Young, working for Dawson, was project manager on no less than forty of these hazmat sites in NY/NJ/PA and DE. On this talk, Bill will provide details, insights, and results from four high profile projects. Because these sites can never be built on, it is a rare opportunity to provide critical habitat and bring wildlife back. And many of these cleaned up sites provide a measure of environmental justice to underserved communities.

Bill’s bio: 

An experienced field scientist, Young has more than 39 years’ experience in wetland banking, mitigation, building wetlands, monitoring, and permitting. His project portfolio includes more than 45 coastal salt marsh and freshwater wetland projects as well as upland habitat projects, Living Shorelines, and Green Infrastructure. He has helped restore the shrunken island of Jamaica Bay, NY, including Yellow Bar Hassock. 

Young’s experience ranges from the design of wastewater treatment wetlands to restoration of Superfund/Brownfield sites. Bill is just as comfortable in construction as he is in consulting. In fact, he is most at home out in the field running crews.

Young is certified as a professional wetland scientist (PWS) by the Society of Wetland Scientists, a Certified Ecological Restoration Specialist (CERP)with SER and has full Army Corps of Engineers training in Construction Quality Management and 40-hour HAZWOPER certification as well.

He is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania where he has taught Ecology in the Graduate School of Design for the past 22 years. Bill has also taught at City College of New York and Temple University.

Register Here – NOTE: This webinar is on Tuesday!