AEG Carolinas Dinner/Meeting
Legal and Technical Aspects of the GenX Issue
Thursday, August 2, 2018
Clouds Brewing, Raleigh
The Carolinas Chapter of the
Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists Presents
Guest Speakers:
Heather Kennealy and Ed Woloszyn
Meeting Details – Note the Times are Different from Past Meetings!
Place: Clouds Brewing, 126 N. West Street, Raleigh
Date: Thursday, August 2, 2018
Time: 5:00 PM socializing begins, 6:30 PM buffet dinner, 7:30 PM Presentations begin
Cost: AEG and ASCE members $30; non-members $40; public-sector employees, teachers, and general public $20, students free with college ID. Cost includes one drink ticket courtesy of Hazmat Emergency Response and Remediation (HERR) and SGS North America. Thanks to Al King of HERR and Kendall Sutler of SGS!
Reservations: Please make reservations with Rick Kolb (rick.kolb1@gmail.com) by 5:00 PM on Monday, July 30, 2018. Attendees that walk in without a RSVP will be charged $5 on top of meeting cost. Beware that the meeting may sell out in advance, so make a reservation on our website, www.aegcarolinas.org.
Abstracts for the Presentations
Emerging contaminants are being targeted by environmental regulatory agencies. For those chemicals with scant toxicological data on the effects to human health, the regulatory community will take a conservative approach for establishing health goals or action levels, as well as implement stringent restrictions on the release of these unregulated chemicals that can be costly to manufacturers. One such emerging chemical is GenX, which is in a group of chemicals referred to as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Upon discovery of this unregulated chemical in drinking-water plants along the Cape Fear River in North Carolina, Chemours was identified as the source of GenX and has been targeted by state regulatory agencies and is subject to third-party lawsuits to mitigate releases; to pay for state-directed costs to assess the distribution of GenX to surface water, soil and air; and to be responsible for cleanup costs.
Résumés for Heather and Ed
Heather Kennealy
Heather Kennealy is an attorney with 16 years of environmental law experience working for both private law firms and the federal government. Her litigation experience has involved class action, Multi-District Litigation and complex tort matters in state and federal courts. Mrs. Kennealy is serving as Of Counsel, and working on GenX matters, with the Law Offices of F. Bryan Brice, Jr. in Raleigh. Mrs. Kennealy also maintains her own shop (Kennealy Law Practice) in Hillsborough, where she focuses on smaller agricultural and land-use cases. She received her undergraduate degree in Public Health and Environmental Science from UNC-Chapel Hill and her law degree from Vermont Law School. Mrs. Kennealy holds a Master’s in Environmental Law and is licensed to practice law in North Carolina and Massachusetts.
Ed Woloszyn
Ed Woloszyn is a Principal Scientist/Project Manager at S&ME’s Raleigh office location with over 28 years of experience in environmental consulting. In 1985, Ed received his undergraduate degree from the College of Charleston in Marine Biology, earning an award for Outstanding Student in the Field of Marine Biology from The Navy League of the United States Charleston Chapter. His first career position was in analytical chemistry at General Engineering Laboratories. Ed then pursed and received a Master’s of Science degree at North Carolina State University from the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in 1990. Ed continued his career at Westinghouse Environmental and Geotechnical Services working on CERCLA human health risk assessments and then moved on to project management at S&ME in 1993. Since then, he has managed compliance specialists, engineers, and industrial hygienists. Ed then transitioned his career to managing environmental contracts with the Department of Defense and with the State of North Carolina. Ed is currently responsible for multi-disciplinary engineering, industrial hygiene and testing services for the manufacturing industry.
Chapter Sponsors
Thanks to our chapter sponsors, without which our meeting dinners would be more expensive, and we couldn’t offer reduced rates for the public-sector employees and teachers, and free dinners for students. Be sure to tell them thanks for supporting AEG and our profession.
TITANIUM SPONSORS
Enviro-Equipment, Inc., 11180 Downs Road; Pineville, NC 28134; www.enviroequipment.com
Rand Ratterree, rand@enviroequipmnt.com
Pace Analytical Services, Inc., 9800 Kincey Avenue; Huntersville, NC 28078; www.pacelabs.com
Korey Drew, 704-875-9002, Korey.drew@pacelabs.com
Eastern Solutions, 10909 Rozzelles Ferry Rd., Charlotte, NC 28214; www.easternsolutionsenv.com
Edgar Alcaraz, ealcaraz@easternsolutionsenv.com
PLATINUM SPONSORS
Pine Environmental, 8411 Garvey Dr., Suite 113, Raleigh, NC 27616; www.pine-environmental.com
Paul Federline, 919-713-0008, pfederline@pine-environmental.com
Schnabel Engineering, 11A Oak Branch Drive, Greensboro, NC 27407; www.schnabel-eng.com
Gary Rogers, grogers@schnabel-eng.com
SGS North America, Inc., 5500 Business Dr, Wilmington, NC 28405; www.sgs.com
Kendall Sutler, 910-465-5958, Kendall.Sutler@sgs.com
GOLD SPONSORS
Clean Vapor, LLC; 148 State Route 94, PO Box 688, Blairstown, NJ 07825; Kristin Hatton, 908-362-5616
khatton@cleanvapor.com, www.cleanvapor.com
Contaminant Control, Inc. (CCI), 3434 Black & Decker, Road; Hope Mills, NC 28348; www.cci-env.com
Mark Vestal, 910-484-7000, mark.vestal@cci-env.com
Geologic Exploration, Inc., 176 Commerce Blvd.; Statesville, NC 28625; www.geologicexploration.com
Matt Tischler, 800-752-8853, mtischler@gexnc.com
Hart & Hickman, PC; 2923 South Tryon Street, Suite 100; Charlotte, NC 28203; www.harthickman.com
Rebecca Deal, 704-887-4636; rdeal@harthickman.com
Municipal Engineering Services Company, P.A., 68 Shipwash Drive, Garner, NC 27529; www.mesco.com, Maddie German, 919-772-5393, mgerman@mesco.com
Pyramid Environmental, P.O. Box 16265; Greensboro, NC 27406; www.pyramidenvironmental.com
Eric Cross, 336-335-3174, eric@pyramidenvironmental.com
SILVER SPONSORS
AE Drilling Services, Inc., 30 Grant Park Place; Greenville, SC 29673; www.aedrilling.com
Lynn Hendrix, 864-288-1986, lhendrix@aedrilling.com
Con-Test Analytical Laboratory, 39 Spruce Street; East Longmeadow, MA 01028; www.contestlabs.com
Paul Konnik, 314-302-0431, paul.konnik@contestlabs.com
EGIS, PA; 441 Northside Drive; Chapel Hill, NC 27516; www.waterwellvideos.com
Mike Vaught, 919-929-8363, gwinvest@juno.com
ENCO Labs; 102-A Woodwinds Industrial Court, Cary, NC 27511; Jim Hays, 919-812-4471, jhays@encolabs.com, www.ENCOLabs.com
Environmental Data Resources, 6 Armstrong Road; Shelton, CT 06484; www.edrnet.com
Todd Elmore, telmore@edrnet.com
Parratt-Wolff, 501 Millstone Dr., Hillsborough, NC 27278; www.pwinc.com
Gary Ellingworth, gellingworth@pwinc.com
Prism Laboratories, P. O. Box 240543; Charlotte, NC 28224-0543; www.prismlabs.com
Adam Phillips, 919-451-3370, aphillips@prismlabs.com
SAEDACCO, 9088 Northfield Drive; Ft. Mill, SC 27406; www.saedacco.com,
Pete Byer, (803) 548-2180, pbyer@saedacco.com
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