Qualifications Summary
Ms. Adams recently joined the CES team with several years of experience in municipal government, namely in freshwater and drinking water analysis, and wastewater compliance. Her main environmental focus is industrial compliance and regulation; however, she also enjoys the fields of sustainability, urban gardening, and data analysis.
Her environmental experience encompasses industrial inspection and regulation; and she spent several years working under an EPA mandated Industrial Pretreatment Program identifying pollutants in industrial discharges to Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW) and surface waters.
Experience
Ms. Adams’s most recent experience was working directly with Industrial Users to maintain or achieve compliance with local and regional environmental regulations. This involved learning and understanding industrial and manufacturing processes, the nature of the chemicals used in the processes, safety in handling and storing chemicals, and waste storage and disposal.
Ms. Adams’s experience working in Regulation and Compliance included:
- Providing educational assistance to Industrial Users on local, state and regional regulations.
- Conducting facility compliance inspections, identifying chemical storage and housekeeping dangers, and potential threats to wastewater and stormwater.
- Protecting POTW infrastructure and receiving waters by managing wastewater effluent quality and ensuring compliance with environmental laws and regulations using analytical, engineering, geological, biological/qualitative, quantitative/statistical and educational methods.
- Identifying instances of pollution and potential non-compliance by monitoring aquatic biological health where outfalls meet surface water, and leading investigations to evaluate and abate sources of pollution.
- Performing post-response testing and communication with various first responders and governmental agencies, such as PADEP and EPA.
- Producing government related guidance documents, Standard Operating Procedures, and technical manuals.
- Using complex critical thinking skills to determine potential impacts to human health and the environment as a result of a spill (spill path, rate of flow, threats to public, treatment plants, laboratory workers, ecological impacts).
- Providing reports, oral and written notification, photographs, measurements, diagrams, legal statements and maps detailing potential impacts to municipal treatment systems, and NPDES regulatory applicability, and related local, state and federal regulatory obligations.
- Administering the PCB Pollution Minimization Plan set forth by PADEP, to identify sources of and reduce the discharge of PCBs to the POTW infrastructure.
Education
B.S., Environmental Science, Temple University
Certifications
40-hour HAZWOPER certification
Certifications in OSHA Confined Space Training, and Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response through FEMA