Michael G. Hauptmann, P.E.

Expertise: Multi-tasking Project Management, Federal Facility Environmental Cleanup

Professional Profile

Mr. Hauptmann has twenty-five years of experience in environmental investigation and remediation for industry, and federal and municipal government. His areas of expertise include multi-tasking project management, federal facility environmental cleanup, public presentations of technical issues, groundwater modeling, and innovative cleanup technologies. His experience includes design and construction of groundwater remediation and treatment systems under CERCLA and RCRA. He has also performed optimization of treatment system operations emphasizing lower cost solutions and of-the-shelf equipment. As a consulting engineer, Mr. Hauptmann has estimated cleanup costs and apportioned environmental liabilities among separate parties. He has delineated water supply aquifer protection areas. He has implemented site closure and cleanup projects under CERCLA, RCRA, TSCA, SDWA, CWA, ISO14001, New York, Connecticut, Indiana and other local regulations. These projects have succeeded because of his technical expertise, team leadership and regulatory agency negotiation abilities. Other strengths include: budget planning, scheduling, and cost estimating; project management/subcontractor management; written and verbal communication; and data collection, management, evaluation, and presentation.

As Project Manager and Task Leader for Brookhaven National Laboratory, Mr. Hauptmann successfully completed significant portions of the EM groundwater cleanup program including managing various soil restoration and groundwater remedial action design and construction projects. He negotiated cost-effective designs with the regulatory agencies, and emphasized combined approach of active plume remediation with natural attenuation. Mr. Hauptmann’s specific responsibilities include plume definition, conceptual design, and design engineering for treatment systems including energy conservation measures and minimization of construction and operating costs; the construction of seven groundwater treatment systems including the first ever built at BNL.; writing O&M manuals, startup testing, data evaluation, BNL ORE completion, routine operations for treatment plants, and reporting to the regulatory agencies and other stakeholders. Additional focus includes budget and schedule management, cost estimating, value engineering, report writing, project management, use of innovative technologies, and presentation and communication of issues and results to stakeholders. Focused on data analysis (database management, computer modeling, statistical evaluation) and interpretation as well as CERCLA remedial action work plans preparation. Prior to his work at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Mr. Hauptmann served as Office Manager, Project Manager, and Group Leader at Geraghty & Miller, Inc.

A Licensed Professional Engineer in New York and Connecticut, Mr. Hauptman holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology and Biophysics, a Master of Science Degree in Regional Planning, and a Master of Science in Engineering Degree in Civil and Urban Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
 

Representative Experience

• Project Manager for $5 million construction of four groundwater cleanup systems at USDOE facility to remove chlorinated volatile organics. Strategic combination of construction contracts for three of four treatment systems in addition to competitive bidding resulted in $500K cost savings. Substitution of activated carbon for air stripping treatment saved additional $100K.
   

• Managed operations and maintenance of six groundwater treatment systems at BNL in compliance with Suffolk County Article 12, SPDES, SDWA, CERCLA, New York Air Guide 1, and UIC program to minimize electric, maintenance, and carbon cost and to shorten total operating period. Responsible for health and safety, quality management, scope, schedule, budget, invoice approval, and contract closeout.

• Project Manager for construction and all aspects of health and safety and quality management for an innovative technology recirculation well groundwater treatment system at the BNL. Utilized off-the-shelf air stripping trays to streamline installation.
   

• Responsible for excavation and disposal of 500 cubic yards PCB-containing soils from former scrapyard site. Managed all aspects of the health and safety for construction, earthmoving equipment, labor, analytical laboratory work, soil disposal, and waste transportation. Optimized excavation and transportation logistics to maximize cost savings and minimize project duration.
   

• Task leader and Project Manager during HFBR Tritium Plume Remediation Project. Achieved successful design and construction of hydraulic containment system within 60 days. Was recipient of Brookhaven National laboratory Engineering Award. Also responsible line manager for plume characterization and program management including budget and schedule control. Project involved extensive interaction with regulatory agencies, USDOE Headquarters and the public. Successfully achieved timely shutdown approval from the USEPA/NYSDEC of the HFBR Tritium Plume Pump and Recharge System.
  
   Negotiated Consent Decree during design of Seymour Superfund site remedial action program. Involved review of previous RI/FS studies including modeling. Formulated technical arguments to revise USEPA's recommended alternative. Resulted in more cost effective ground-water remediation and innovative soil vapor extraction system and bioremediation of soil.
   

• Project manager during design phase of Seymour Superfund site remediation. Remedial design included a 12-acre, RCRA-type cap, horizontal vapor extraction system, pumping and treatment of ground water, and soil bioremediation. Responsibilities included oversight of design engineers, regulatory agency contact, budget management, client contact, and subcontractor management.
   

• Evaluated potential remedial liabilities at 10 large manufacturing facilities in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions as part of a corporate merger between Martin Marietta and General Electric. Responsibilities included manufacturing facilities inspections, existing data assessment, and development of technical data necessary to estimate probable remedial cost. Participated in selection of remedial designs and in estimation of associated costs. Information was critical to the successful completion of the multi-million dollar merger.
   

• Recruited by USDOE Headquarters to serve on four technology/feasibility review teams for other USDOE facilities. The first involved the potential application of natural attenuation to the Weldon Springs site in Missouri. The second involved evaluation of technical and community relations issues associated with a potential tritium leak at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. The third assessment was of the technical and administrative response by ORNL to a potential leak of tritiated water from the High Flux Isotope Reactor. The fourth, for Bechtel Nevada, was to evaluate a potential tritium leak at the USDOE North Las Vegas Facility.
   

• Developed and participated at BNL in many information and outreach activities with the public, elected officials, regulatory agencies, community groups, and clients. Helped the concerned public to accept the proposed conservation and environmental cleanup measures. Planned and presented at numerous public meetings, workshops, and developed written and graphic information (cleanupdate articles, fact sheets, maps) to involve stakeholders and solicit input about environmental restoration decisions.
   

• Managed several innovative technology proposals with the USDOE (in situ iron filing VOC treatment, bioremediation, possible tritium treatment, natural attenuation). Development of proposals has involved collaboration with other national laboratories (LANL, SNL, PNNL). Reports of progress have been presented at recent USDOE Technical Information Exchange conferences.
   

• Designed, constructed and operated a low flow tritium groundwater removal project to enhance plume management and provide longer decay period. Timely data collection procedure supported cost-effective pumping and disposal of tritiated groundwater.
   

• Directed project to design and implement aquifer protection program in Connecticut. Project involved assessment of hydrogeologic conditions at 23 public water supply well fields and requires the use of numerical modeling to define legally-defensible aquifer protection zones for land use restrictions.
   

• Provided expert testimony and litigation support on behalf of Superfund site PRPs challenging USEPA cost recovery assessment. Involved technical interpretation of several versions of the National Contingency Plan and historical data base and document review. Resulted in preliminary division to allow reduction of cost liability.
   

• Directed project and gave expert testimony during design of erosion control system in East Windsor, CT. Responsible for quality assurance technical review, supervision of project staff, and testimony at public hearings of Inland Wetlands Agency.
   

• Provided litigation support for a responsible party in Dedham Water Company versus Cumberland Farms. Developed additional modeling data showing that a stream was not a hydraulic boundary, contrary to what had been determined previously.
   

• Provided expert testimony support during Rhode Island hearings regarding impacts to groundwater at a construction waste landfill. Resulted in reduction of enforcement monitoring program.
   

• Provided litigation support and designed reduced frequency monitoring program for former Chevron gasoline station in Shelton, Connecticut. Successfully negotiated reduced monitoring program with further frequency reduction as concentration milestones are achieved. Eliminated the need for active remediation based on the demonstration of natural bioattenuation activity.
   

• Project manager for phased Groundwater Characterization Study of Colonial Pipeline Company petroleum hydrocarbon rupture sit in Herndon, Virginia. Responsibilities included work plans and QAPP preparation, development of technical approach, negotiation with VDEQ and USEPA Region III. Additional responsibility included participation in development of biological treatment for residual soil contamination.
   

• Project manager for risk-based closure of former asphalt mixing plant in Norfolk, Virginia. Risk-based arguments focused on lack of movement of contaminants, lack of receptors, and in-situ natural biodegradation. Presented arguments to VDEQ Water and Waste Divisions and secured preliminary approval to proceed with pilot testing to demonstrate biodegradation.
   

• Project manager for petroleum UST removal and risk-based closure of excavation site in Norfolk, Virginia. Prepared reduced sampling program that was accepted by VDEQ.
   

• Project manager for historical data evaluation and design of an air stripping system for removal of chlorinated organics from a public water supply well in Palmer, MA. Personally responsible for conceptual design and preparation of technical submission to Mass DEP.
   

• Project manager for installation of free product recovery pumping system at fuel oil spill contamination of a public water supply reservoir. Responsible for pump sizing, electrical installation, budgeting, and obtaining permits from the CTDEP. Investigative activities included soil gas survey, test borings, and monitor well installation.
   

• Project manager for investigation and remedial design to address a historic leak of tetrachloroethylene in Manchester, CT. Responsible for design of investigation including a soil gas survey, soil boring program, monitoring well installation, and data review and interpretation including gradient mapping and plume delineation. Additional responsibilities include design of recovery trench system, evaluation of treatment alternatives, supervision of project staff, budget control, technical review and preparation of remedial work plan for submission to CTDEP.

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