Albert Machlin, P.E., DEE

Expertise: Regulatory Affairs, Environmental Engineering Management

Professional Profile

A co-founder of ETG, Mr. Machlin has over 40 years experience as a professional engineer.  He has extensive consulting experience in all aspects of environmental engineering with industry and government.  As a former Assistant Regional Director, and Regional Engineer for Environmental Quality for Region I (Long Island) of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, he was involved in major solid waste, hazardous waste, air quality, wastewater, groundwater, and marine issues.  Prior to his work with the DEC, Mr. Machlin served as Vice President and Division Engineer for Hydrotechnic Corporation, an international consulting and engineering firm situated in New York City, and provided Civil/Sanitary Engineering services at other New York consulting firms. 

In addition to his work within the Empire State, Mr. Machlin has extensive international experience.  He served as the Senior Technical Consultant for the United Nations Development Program, proposing storm water, sanitary sewage, and solid waste facilities for the city of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana.  Other International experience includes the engineering of surface groundwater supplies and wastewater facilities in Peru, Vietnam, Somalia, the Dominican Republic, Italy, and Spain.  He also serves as an expert witness for law firms and insurance companies, where he provides testimony and advice on cause and origin, for complex insurance claims.  Mr. Machlin also has lead responsibility for ETG’s training and environmental technology seminar programs.

A Registered Professional Engineer in New York and New Jersey, Mr. Machlin is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Environmental and Mechanical Technology Department at the New York Institute of Technology, and is an Assistant Professor of Wastewater and Water Supply Systems at the Graduate Engineering School, State University of New York at Stony Brook.  He also lectures on Environmental Engineering issues at the Waste Management Institute, SUNY at Stony Brook and New York University, School of Continuing Education.  Mr. Machlin is past President of the Metropolitan Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and is the Regional Director for the Upper Mid-Atlantic Region of the Inter-American Association of Sanitary Engineers and Environmental Sciences (AIDIS).  In addition, he is a member of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (Diplomate), the American Water Works Association, and the New York Water Pollution Control Association.  Mr. Machlin holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering Degree from the College of the City of New York, a Master of Civil Engineering Degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and a Master of Science Degree in Environmental Engineering from the City University of New York.  Mr. Machlin has been listed in ‘Who’s Who in the East’, and in 1985, received a World Health Organization Traveling Fellowship to study and report on Reclamation and Reuse of Water in Israel and its applicability to Long Island.

Representative Experience

College Point, Queens, N.Y.
  •  Project Engineer on the cleanup of an 8 1/2 acre contaminated site.

Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA)/University of Puerto Rico

  • Environmental Review Contractor, Project Manager.  Responsible for monitoring the compliance of a USEPA Consent Decree with PREPA, for correction of air, water pollution, and hazardous waste violations on 4 major electrical generating plants.

Incorporated Village of Bayville.  Long Island, NY

  • Flood Plain Management Study
  • Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan
  • Non-Point Contamination Source Study
  • Recreational Trails Project.

Safety and Environmental Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY

  • Air Pollution Permit Program
  • Groundwater Monitoring Program
  • Peconic River Management Plan
  • Sewage Treatment Plant Operation

Metcalf and Eddy, Consulting Engineers.  New York, NY

  • Preparation of Proposal Documents for Sludge Chemical Fixation Plant for Wards Island.

Eder Associates, Consulting Engineers, Locust Valley, NY

  • Construction and Demolition Debris Facility, Queens, NY

Lewin & Laytin, Attorneys: New York, NY

  • Storm Drainage Project, Town of East Hampton, NY

Caldwell Trucking Company, Caldwell, NJ

  • Superfund Site

Eastern Star Products, Inc., Hicksville, NY

  • Environmental Assessment

Star Recycling, Inc., Brooklyn, NY

  • Wood-Fired Waste-to-Energy Facility

Mackenzie Smith Lewis Mitchell & Hughes, Attorneys, Syracuse, NY

  • Water Treatment Plant, Oswego, NY

Town of Hamptonburg, Seevers Associates, New York, NY

  • Maybrook Lagoons Hazardous Waste Site

New York University, New York, NY

  • Environmental Education Consultant School of Continuing Education

Publications

  • Co-Author, “The Plain Language Guide to Sanitary Sewer Overflows”, Citizens Environmental Research Institute (Under a Grant by USEPA).  2001
  • Co-Author, Groundwater Contamination on Long Island, New York. Third International Conference for Environmental Quality and Ecosystem Stability. Jerusalem, Israel. June 1988.
  • Long Island Water Resource Problems, A Lesson for Developing Countries. International Conference on Resource Mobilization for Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation in Developing Nations. San Juan, Puerto Rico. May 1987.
  • Co-Author, Uncertainty of Water Supply Demand Estimates. Symposium on Water-Use Data for Water Resources Management. Tucson, Arizona. 1988.
  • Co-Author, Multi-layered Sampling in Water Table Region of a Sandy Aquifer. Journal of Groundwater, May-June 1991.

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