Julia Yates

INTERA’s Joseph Pere, Technical Director of Air Quality and Senior Engineer, will be a panelist at the Air & Waste Management Association’s (A&WMA) 116^th Annual Conference & Exhibition, Smart Growth: Balancing Development, Restoration, and Resiliency, on June 5- 8, 2023 in Orlando, Florida.  The session entitled, Defining Environmental Externalities in a Changing Energy Landscape, will take place on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, at 3:30PM in the Florida A meeting room. In this session, the speakers will focus on current regulatory models for addressing NO2 and PM2.5 pollutants and whether there is an imbalance when factoring in associated health and environmental impacts, among other topics. To learn more, visit: https://awmaace23.eventscribe.net/index.asp?presTarget=2327218

To learn more about INTERA’s Air Quality services, visit: https://www.intera.com/services/environmental/air-quality/

The Volusia County Coastal Division has selected INTERA-GEC, LLC to provide coastal engineering services for post-Hurricane Nicole beach restoration efforts. The two-pronged project includes separate strategies to restore the beaches north and south of Ponce de Leon Inlet. For the north beaches, the County is coordinating with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to use beach quality dredge materials from upcoming maintenance dredging of the inlet and Intracoastal Waterway. USACE will hydraulically dredge and pump the anticipated 700,000 cubic yards of sand into a large stockpile area on the adjacent beach, and the County will truck and place the stockpiled sand along 5 to 10 miles of shoreline. South of the inlet, the County will offload 550,000 cubic yards of sand from Florida Inland Navigation District’s Rattlesnake Island dredge material management area and place the sand along approximately 5 miles of beach via hydraulic dredge.

For both projects, INTERA-GEC will design the dune/berm fill templates, conduct site assessments including mapping/characterization of environmental resources and protected species habitat, obtain permits from Florida Department of Environmental Protection and USACE, assist the County with bid administration and contractor selection, and provide daily construction observation and coordination services.  This is an important win for INTERA-GEC, as highlighted by Mark Gosselin, VP of Coastal Services at INTERA, when he stated “It is our first win of a beach project that includes design, permitting and construction observation. I couldn’t be more proud of the job Mike Trudnak and Mike Krecic did in securing this win for INTERA.”

INTERA’s Patrick Williamson, Principal Hydrogeochemist, will be presenting at the “CGS Ecuador 2023” conference, held in Quito, June 12^th – 13^th. Patrick’s presentation, entitled “Planning for Water Stewardship”, will take place on June 13^th at 8:30 during the Environment Session. To learn more and to register, visit: https://cgsorg.com/cgs-events/cgs-ecuador/