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With
over twenty-seven years of experience in the environmental industry,
Mr. Granata has supervised in excess of $10 million dollars in
environmental projects annually. In such an oversight capacity,
he has experienced virtually every type of environmental project from
remediation of major oil terminals to on-call rapid response contracts.
A Hydrogeologist by training, Mr. Granata began his career
in May 1980 investigating, designing and implementing remedial action
plans for petroleum releases at retail gasoline stations and bulk
storage terminals throughout the northeast.
From
1981 to 1986 Mr. Granata’s experience turned to natural resource
management and water rights adjudication, while working with The State
of Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Survey, and the Water
Resources Division, Department of Natural Resources.
From
1986 to 1997 Mr. Granata served first as Senior Hydrogeologist and
Project Manager, then as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for
a medium size (125 person) environmental consulting firm with five (5)
offices across the Northeast.
Most recently, Mr. Granata is
serving in a principal capacity overseeing consultants and field
personnel performing real estate risk assessments, Brownsfield
Redevelopment and Reclamation, remedial investigations and system
operations and maintenance.
Mr. Granata has an undergraduate degree in Environmental Earth
Science. Additionally, he has completed industry specific
training in hazardous materials and occupational health and safety. He
is also current with ASTM 2005 Standards in Environmental Site
Assessments and is pursuing his Licensed Environmental Professional
designation.
Tina is the Co-Founder of GO Environmental.
Tina serves as Chief Executive Officer, project manager and liaison
with clients, suppliers, subcontractors and regulatory agencies. Tina
coordinates all aspects of project development from initial client
contact and proposal preparation to final job quality analysis. She
received a Bachelors of Science Degree, Magna Cum Laude from Sacred
Heart University and GE’s coveted Information Systems Management Program,
a two-year proprietary MBA designed to groom graduates for management
positions requiring a thorough understanding of technology issues and
solutions. Tina is highly effective in communication and customer
relations.
Tina’s role at GO Environmental
is as diverse and unique as there are individual client needs. Since
1997, Tina has worked in the Environmental Field managing the
development of a new commercial environmental consulting division,
later to become GO Environmental with her business
partner, Michael Granata, by targeting Financial Lending Institutions
and Commercial Realtors to provide high quality realistic environmental
site assessments for commercial properties and transfers. Tina
has over 9 years training in environmental consulting including
hands-on subsurface investigations and remediation. Tina has worked for
IBM, GE Capital and Coopers & Lybrand developing new client
accounts through thorough research and understanding of the clients’
needs and goals.
Tina has attended numerous ASTM
Technical & Professional Training courses on Environmental
Investigations and is current with the State of Connecticut Remediation
Standard Regulations (RSRs) and The CT Transfer Act. Tina has served on
the Board of the Network of Executive Women and the Milford Rotary and
is a recipient of several awards of distinction for her service. She is
also a member of the Environmental Professionals of Connecticut;
Society of Women Environmental Professionals, The Rotary Club of
Milford, and the Milford, Norwalk, and New Haven Chambers of Commerce.
Mr. Foss earned his Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Sciences from
the University of Connecticut in 1998. Since that time, he has worked
as an environmental consultant for several environmental firms in the
State of Connecticut. Mr. Foss has been with GO Environmental since
2003 and in his capacity as Senior Environmental Analyst is responsible
for training and development of new staff members and has conducted
over 500 Phase I and Transaction Screen Site Assessments. Mr. Foss has
also acted as the Project Manager for numerous Phase II and Phase III
Site Investigations as well as Remedial and Site Closure
Activities. He has a broad range of experience involving soil and
groundwater collection, drilling, underground storage tank testing,
LUST closures, Asbestos sampling, airborne mold/air quality sampling,
soil vapor surveys, low-flow groundwater sampling, and environmental
research and records review.
Mr. Foss has completed the ASTM Phase I Environmental Site Assessment
Practices for Commercial Real Estate training course. He is current
with EPA's All Appropriate Inquiry (AAI) Rule and ASTM E 1527-05
Standard Practices for Environmental Site Assessments (effective
11/06). Mr. Foss completed the State of Connecticut Remediation
Standard Regulations (RSRs) Fundamental Review Course.
Mr. Foss is a State of Connecticut Licensed Environmental Professional
(LEP #502) and a Connecticut Licensed Asbestos Inspector (Lic.# 000458).
As
manager of Land Tech Remedial, Inc.'s Farmingdale, New York office
since December, 1993, and as Director of Applied Sciences with Handex
since their acquisition of Land Tech Remedial, Inc. in September, 1998,
Mr. Douthit has been directly involved in all aspects of petrochemical
release management, including assessment, remediation system
feasibility testing and implementation, regulatory negotiation and
closure. For In Aqua Veritas, LLC, Mr. Douthit is primarily
responsible for management and implementation of the technical aspects
of the company’s environmental fate and transport modeling, risk-based
corrective action and natural attenuation services. To that end,
recent projects include the regulatory advocacy and application of
risk-based corrective action (RBCA) in several states, refinement of
air sparging techniques, risk assessment utilizing computer-based
dissolved-phase contaminant fate, transport and 3-D visualization
modeling, co-producing guidance documents on field analytical methods
for the American Petroleum Institute (API), and protocol development
for field documentation of in-situ, intrinsic bioremediation at
petrochemical release sites for a major oil company. Additional
activities include the development, calibration and implementation of
proprietary computer software for the application of Domenico (1987),
Baetsle (1969) and Johnson and Ettinger (1991) contaminant
fate-and-transport equations. A primary focus of these
applications is the better understanding and quantification of indoor
air exposure scenarios.
Mr. Douthit has been a member of the New
York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Risk-Based
Corrective Action Advisory Group, the American Society for Testing and
Materials (ASTM) Task Group on Remediation by Natural Attenuation
(RNA), and was a co-author of the ASTM Standard Guide for Remediation
by Natural Attenuation at Petroleum Release Sites (E-1943).