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Dr. McKelvey is the director of the Geotechnical Design Division at Earth Engineering Inc. in East Norriton, Pennsylvania. He is a registered professional engineer (P.E.) in California, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Dr. McKelvey is also a Diplomate (D.GE) of the Academy of Geo-Professionals and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (F.ASCE).

Dr. McKelvey has extensive experience in geotechnical engineering including site assessment and field investigations, deep and shallow foundation design for buildings, bridges, and other structures, retaining wall design, embankment stability, mechanically stabilized soil structures, and subsurface hydrology.

He also has significant experience in mitigating heavy construction claims and in litigation support pertaining to impacted heavy construction projects. Dr. McKelvey has also handled construction support and construction quality assurance projects. His environmental engineering experience includes technical contributions to the remediation of many Superfund sites and over 50 landfill design projects.

Dr. McKelvey has published over 30 technical papers in journals, conference proceedings and trade magazines. He is the past chair for the Delaware Valley Geo-Institute (DVGI) and is a voting member in ASTM committees Soil and Rock (D18), and Geosynthetics (D35). He is an editorial board member of the Geotechnical Testing Journal. Dr. McKelvey also serves on two Geo-Institute committees: Earth Structures and Embankments and Dams. For the latter, he is a member of the subcommittee on landslide risk assessment.

Mr. Jones, P.E., is president of Hartech Engineering, which was founded in 2007 as a multi-discipline civil engineering consulting firm providing infrastructure, development, and municipal design services for the public and private sectors. Bringing over 30 years of engineering expertise along with specific state-of-the-art, computer-aided technology to achieve efficient, cost saving design solutions, he also provides hydrology and hydraulic studies and reports along with general civil engineering support for prime consultants to PennDOT or local municipality projects. Mr. Jones is a licensed pilot and studied Military Civil Engineering while serving in the U.S. Air Force and continues his master’s education locally through Penn State. He is also a registered professional engineer in the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Arizona, and Georgia.

Mr. Jones, P.E., is president of Hartech Engineering, which was founded in 2007 as a multi-discipline civil engineering consulting firm providing infrastructure, development, and municipal design services for the public and private sectors. Bringing over 30 years of engineering expertise along with specific state-of-the-art, computer-aided technology to achieve efficient, cost saving design solutions, he also provides hydrology and hydraulic studies and reports along with general civil engineering support for prime consultants to PennDOT or local municipality projects. Mr. Jones is a licensed pilot and studied Military Civil Engineering while serving in the U.S. Air Force and continues his master’s education locally through Penn State. He is also a registered professional engineer in the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Arizona, and Georgia.

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Ms. Campbell is a Chambers-ranked litigation partner at the firm focusing on environmental, toxic tort and class action litigation and Superfund and RCRA remediation matters. In addition to her litigation and remediation practice, she has also been involved for many years in activities involving Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for toxic pollutants, advocating on behalf of individual clients and a regional coalition of industrial and municipal dischargers. Through this work, Ms. Campbell has been able to develop a detailed understanding of the nuances of the Clean Water Act and the TMDL regulatory program, and the contours of TMDL litigation at the federal and state levels.

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Mr. Daly concentrates his practice on environmental litigation and has broad experience litigating a wide variety of environmental and administrative matters including responding to and defending against agency enforcement actions, as well as defending against citizen suits under the federal Clean Water Act and the Pennsylvania Clean Streams law, among other environmental statutes.

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Mr. Dillon works in the firm’s complex industrial and regulatory practices, with a particular focus in the areas of air, water quality, and endangered species regulation. He has worked with a wide array of clients, including those in the manufacturing, waste, power generation, commercial development, transportation, education, and municipal sectors. Mr. Dillon counsels clients on environmental matters at both the state and federal level, including permitting, agency enforcement, and regulatory compliance involving air emissions, wastewater, stormwater, impacts to endangered species, and solid and hazardous waste.

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Mr. Franey has experience in counseling and representing clients on a range of environmental and energy matters. His practice has focused on regulatory compliance and transactional matters, particularly in the areas of air and water quality, redevelopment, sustainability, permitting, energy efficiency and renewable energy development. Over the last several years, Mr. Franey has primarily worked with complex regulated industries, notably including petroleum refining, chemical processing, oil and gas operations, metal manufacturing, and electric generating facilities.

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Mr. Hill concentrates his practice on environmental litigation. Prior to joining MGKF, he began his career at a large national firm based in Philadelphia where he gained extensive experience in white collar criminal defense, internal investigations, and complex commercial litigation. He also advised and represented clients in corporate governance and securities matters along with breach of contract claims and charter school law.

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Mr. Hitchcock brings nearly a decade of experience to the firm from his time spent in the chemical manufacturing sector. With degrees in both Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, he has a diverse skill set that allows him to advise clients on complex technical and regulatory issues. He can explain complex technical arguments in ways that are easily understandable to decision-makers who may not have extensive scientific backgrounds or familiarity with the subject matter.

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Ms. Hunt concentrates her practice in environmental regulatory compliance and permitting matters, with a particular focus in the areas of air and solid waste. Prior to joining MGKF, she was an assistant counsel for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Protection where she counseled the Department’s Air Quality and Solid Waste programs since 2014. In law school, Ms. Hunt was a law clerk for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a law clerk for the Philadelphia Water Department, and a legal intern for Aqua America.

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Ms. Hustis Gotanda has over 25 years of experience representing and counseling business clients on environmental matters, including regulatory compliance, permitting, transactions, project development, and enforcement. Her practice addresses a broad range of complex issues involving the regulation of water, waste, air, and chemical substances and she has handled significant ma tters involving wastewater discharge and stormwater permitting, total maximum daily load (TMDL) development, and water allocation; site remediation and brownfield redevelopment; waste handling, treatment and disposal; business and real estate transactions, due diligence and contracting; occupational safety and health (OSHA); and spill prevention and emergency response.

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Mr. Kantorczyk has extensive experience advising clients on complex issues related to regulatory compliance, litigation, and transactional matters, particularly in the areas of wetlands and stormwater permitting, chemical regulation, air, climate change, and energy. His practice has included matters related to chemical regulation under the Toxic Substances Control Act, as well as natural gas production in the Marcellus Shale Region and associated infrastructure development, including cutting-edge issues affecting the regulation of upstream and midstream natural gas operations under federal and state air quality and water resource programs.

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Mr. Koslap concentrates his practice in regulatory compliance and transactional matters, with a particular focus on water, waste, brownfield redevelopment, permit compliance, agency enforcement and environmental justice matters. Prior to law school, he was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Macedonia, where he specialized in local government and community development. Mr. Koslap also completed service with AmeriCorps, working in small business development at the Lower Manhattan Business Solutions Center.

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Mr. Nines serves as one of the firm’s senior technical consultants and is a licensed professional engineer with diverse environmental engineering experience gained through previous employment in the manufacturing sector, environmental consulting, and with an international chemical manufacturing trade association. He focuses on the intricacies of the firm’s client’s complex manufacturing facilities, development projects, and related technologies to fully comprehend relevant multi-media regulatory concerns while maintaining a corporate management perspective to problem solving. Mr. Nines has specifically supported the firm’s clients in various water quality issues such as stormwater permitting, wastewater utility permitting, sewer planning, and stormwater fee mitigation among others.

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Ms. Silva concentrates her practice in environmental litigation, including statutory contribution and cost recovery actions, toxic tort claims, contractual disputes, and administrative enforcement actions. She also counsels clients on environmental regulatory compliance matters, as well as permitting related to land development issues. Ms. Silva has helped represent one of the largest international pipeline entities with environmental compliance counseling project management support in addition to litigation defense in several forums. She is also experienced in the defense and resolution of claims asserted under the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, the Clean Water Act, the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law, and many other state and federal regulations.

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Mr. Spergel handles a wide variety of environmental legal issues, including the environmental aspects of commercial transactions and brownfields sites, environmental insurance procurement and coverage issues, public funding opportunities, regulatory compliance counseling, and litigation for commercial, industrial, residential, and individual clients. He is the former Managing Partner of Manko, Gold, Katcher and Fox and served as general counsel for a regional real estate development company that focused on the redevelopment of brownfield sites early in his legal career.

AECOM’s North America Industrial PFAS Lead, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Mr. Cuthbertson is an associate vice president with AECOM and has over 29 years of environmental consulting experience supporting primarily industrial clients. His primary focus during the past six years has been PFAS, and during this time has managed and supported over 80 projects across North America involving various PFAS constituents. He is experienced in analytical testing and methodologies, PFAS fate and transport, assessment and investigation, and treatment technologies. Mr. Cuthbertson has worked seamlessly with clients’ management and legal executives to develop internal PFAS programs/policies and strategies, has led and directed clients’ national PFAS programs, and has assisted with addressing risk management issues.

Americas PFAS Lead at AECOM, Washington D.C. Metro Area
Dr. Gwinn has provided technical and project management expertise to private and government clients for over 25 years. Her focus has primarily been on the characterization and remediation of environmental contamination including chlorinated solvents, explosives, and metals. Dr. Gwinn’s specialty focus areas range from bioremediation to applying statistics to environmental questions relating to risk, distribution, and trends. She developed an incremental sampling methodology to characterize the level of munitions constituents in stream sediments. Dr. Gwinn has successfully managed federal and commercial projects in values ranging from $10K to $20M, and is a certified project manager.

Professor Jaffé’s research interests relate to the physical, chemical, and biological processes that govern the transport and transformation of pollutants in the environment and their application toward the remediation of contaminated systems. Areas of current emphasis include laboratory and field experiments as well as mathematical simulations of biogeochemical processes in porous media, such as: (1) understanding the mechanism as well as environmental distribution of the Feammox process (ammonium oxidation under iron reducing conditions); (2) Applications of the Feammox process for ammonium removal in engineered systems and for the cometabolical degradation of recalcitrant organics such as PFAS; (2) biogeochemically mediated dynamics of trace metals, metalloids, and radioisotopes in sediments, wetland soils, and groundwater; (4) nitrogen processing in urban settings coupled to urban hydrology; and (5) design of novel biological waste treatment processes.

GHD’s Environmental Risk Assessment Lead, North Wales, PA
Francis C. Ramacciotti is a Principal and Senior Risk Assessor of GHD with over 20 years of experience in environmental health risk assessment, with a specialty in human health assessments. He approaches and uses risk assessment/evaluation as a tool to inform and guide site characterization, remediation, communication, and completion of remedial activities (as appropriate) to ensure protection of human health and the environment. He uses risk-based principles under RCRA, CERCLA, and state cleanup programs to ensure collecting data of sufficient quality and quantity to perform a risk assessment that can be used to balance the risks, benefits, and trade-offs associated with competing remedial alternatives, while also being able to communicate the decisions. He has contributed to ITRC’s technical guidance documents on Risk Communication Toolkit (trainer), RISK-3 (section lead), TPHRisk-1 (section lead and trainer), 1,4-dioxane (section lead), and the Soil Background & Risk teams.  

Drawing on his experience as an environmental engineer with a background in per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) treatment and remediation research, Mr. Yates designs innovative solutions to address existing and anticipated PFAS-related regulations. In addition to leading industrial and domestic wastewater treatment and evaluation projects, he actively advocates for clients on compliance issues. Through numerous journal publications and presentations at seminars and conferences across the US, he has helped shape discussions around PFAS-related issues including fate and transport, health implications, and treatment technologies.