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OUR PEOPLE
Bruce Carter Associates takes great
pride in the diverse experience of our personnel.
Meet a few of our people...
Bruce
Carter, President
James P. Perron,
Associate
John Kilmer, Certified
Hazardous Materials Manager
David J. King,
Certified
Professional Geologist
David W. Scovel,
Geologist, Project Manager
Elizabeth Hill,
Technician, Project Manager
David Donathen,
Manager of Contract
Operations
Please click on an
individual person to view a summary of his or her qualifications. For a
complete listing of all our personnel, refer to our Staff
Directory.
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Mr. Carter has worked as an
environmental professional for 30 years.
He began his career in 1971 working first in the Division of
Water Quality in
Muncie
,
Indiana
then as a consultant to
industry. In 1982 he moved
to
Elkhart
, where he worked for two years as Elkhart City Engineer and four
years as Director of Environmental Affairs for Miles Inc.
From 1986-1988, he served as State Representative for the Third
District. In 1987 he
established the consulting business he continues to head.
In his experiences, Mr.
Carter has served as both a consultant and in-house staff member to a
broad range of manufacturing and governmental entities.
In this capacity, Mr. Carter has advised numerous facilities on
a broad range of environmental issues including solid and hazardous
waste, ground water contamination, air emissions, and wastewater and
pretreatment concerns. Specifically,
Mr. Carter has been responsible for the following projects:
- Investigation,
design and construction of remedial measures for a major municipal
well field groundwater contamination project in
Northern Indiana
;
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Permitting, construction and upgrade of a 18-MGD
municipal wastewater treatment plant;
§
Design, construction and startup of an interceptor well
system that protected a municipal well field from ground water
contamination;
§
Permitting, construction and startup of a $13 million
wastewater pretreatment plant for a pharmaceutical facility; and
§
Permitting and construction of a sanitary landfill under
newly-promulgated landfill design standards.
Recently
Mr. Carter has advised numerous manufacturing facilities regarding air
emissions issues. Mr.
Carter has directed staff at BCA in providing Prevention of
Significant Deterioration (PSD) analysis, air emissions inventories,
air permitting, air permitting strategy development and air consulting
services to numerous manufacturing facilities.
In
addition, Mr. Carter has a broad background in professional training.
He has served on the staff of
Indiana
University
’s Division of Continuing Education and Indiana Vocational Technical
Institute’s Division of Continuing Education.
In addition, Mr. Carter has provided seminars on a broad range
of topics including hazardous waste, air permitting, Title V
permitting, FESOP permitting and operating agreements.
Born
in
South Bend
, Mr. Carter has a Bachelor of Science degree from
Ball
State
University
and a Master of Science degree in Environmental Health Engineering
from the University of Notre Dame.
From 1987 to 1992, he served on the Indiana Environmental
Policy Commission. He is a
Registered Engineer in
Indiana
.
Mr. Carter can be
contacted at the Elkhart
office or via email at bcarter@bcaconsultants.com
After
serving four consecutive terms as Mayor of the City of
Elkhart, Jim Perron formed The Perron Group, Inc., a firm
dedicated to public policy management, urban affairs innovation, and
regional development. His
firm formed an alliance with Bruce Carter Associates, LLC. And more
recently merged, forming BCA Consulting, Inc.
During
his time as mayor, a major focus of Perron’s administration dealt
with environmental issues. Tackling
a severe groundwater contamination problem Perron spearheaded an
effort to bring the EPA and the Indiana Department of Health to look
at groundwater contamination issues in
Elkhart
in a more comprehensive way. The
result was that the City of
Elkhart
was the first city in the
United States
to be completely grid-sampled by the EPA for groundwater
contamination. Perron’s
efforts brought heightened awareness to
Elkhart
citizens for the need for environmental protection.
The result today is that
Elkhart
remains a community with the highest participation in citywide
curbside recycling in the State of
Indiana
. This is particularly
remarkable in that recycling is not mandatory by city ordinance.
Citizen awareness has brought community participation and
compliance.
Perron’s
administration also brought environmental awareness through the
redevelopment of a former municipal dump into an environmental park
known as the
Elkhart
Environmental
Center
.
Today it is a nationally recognized model for environmental
redevelopment with an educational theme directed to
Elkhart
area children.
Mayor Perron was particularly instrumental in bringing about
reform to the EPA’s Superfund Program.
In 1990, Perron identified what essentially became known as the
brownfield problem even before the term “brownfields” were coined
sometime in the mid 1990’s.
His administration’s efforts to redevelop an old industrial
site in the city’s downtown made it clear that if the city came into
the chain of title it would have made the city liable for millions of
dollars.
Thus, redevelopment was forestalled for a number of years and
it was only recently that the contemplated Riverwalk has actually come
under construction.
In 1990, Perron brought the matter to the attention of his
national colleagues in the US Conference of Mayors.
He was a presenter at a number of mayoral meetings and it was
discovered that the issue of brownfields was one that plagued many
cities, particularly older industrial communities throughout the
Midwest
and the northeast.
He became a member of the Brownfields Task Force and as a
result of his initial instigation over ten years ago, significant
reforms have taken place in the brownfield arena.
Mr. Perron can be
contacted at the Indianapolis
office or
via email at jperron@bcaconsultants.com
Mr.
Kilmer has over 15 years experience in environmental consulting,
primarily in the areas of investigation and remediation of
contaminated soil and groundwater, as well as air permitting,
hazardous waste, water and regulatory compliance.
He has an M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering from the
University
of
Illinois
, a B.A. (double major) in Chemistry and in Environmental Science from
the
University
of
Virginia. He
is a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager - Master Level.
He is a member of the Association of Groundwater Scientists and
Engineers, and the Indiana Society of Hazardous Materials Managers.
Mr.
Kilmer is the manager of the
Indianapolis
office and is responsible for the technical oversight of all Phase I
and Phase II investigation and remediation work performed by BCA.
He has extensive experience in soil and groundwater contaminant
investigation and remediation, regulatory compliance for manufacturing
facilities and air emissions permitting.
Mr. Kilmer has managed most of BCA’s major site assessment
and remediation projects (see Representative Projects) for the last
eight years.
His projects have included groundwater flow and contaminant
transport modeling as well as design of several remediation systems.
In addition, he has performed hundreds of projects involving
Phase I and Phase II assessments, consulting for legal counsel,
environmental compliance audits, air permits air modeling, emissions
inventories, TRI Form R/A, Tier I/II, materials inventory software,
storm water pollution prevention plans and spill prevention control
and countermeasures plans.
Mr. Kilmer can be contacted at the
Indianapolis
office or via email at jkilmer@bcaconsultants.com
Technical
Specialty: Investigation
and Remediation of Contaminated Soil and Groundwater.
Mr.
King has over 18 years of environmental experience, including over 8
years of investigation and remediation of contaminated soil and
groundwater. Other areas
of experience have included geographic information systems (GIS),
landfill monitoring, wetland delineation, asbestos abatement, acid
mine drainage and geological exploration.
He has a B.S. degree in Geology from
Indiana
University
and is a Certified Professional Geologist in Indiana, a Certified
Professional Geologist in
Kentucky
, and a Registered Professional Geologist in
Pennsylvania
.
Mr.
King is a project manager in the
Indianapolis
office and is responsible for performing Phase I and Phase II site
investigations and Brownfield investigations and remediations.
He has considerable experience in designing, implementing, and
managing investigation and remediation projects.
Mr. King has experience in investigation and clean-up of
numerous petroleum sites including tank removals, site
characterizations, corrective action plans, remediation and
monitoring. Mr. King has
conducted numerous geological/hydrogeological studies of solid waste
landfills, including field operations leader for a CERCLA RI/FS at a
landfill on the Superfund list. He
has conducted contaminant, hydrogeologic and geotechnical
investigations of factories, abandoned mines and bedrock contamination
areas.
Mr. King can be contacted at the
Indianapolis
office or via email
at
dking@bcaconsultants.com
David
W. Scovel joined BCA Consultants, Inc. as an Environmental Scientist
in the Spring of 2005 after completing a two-year contract with BCA
conducting well surveys in 2004.
Mr. Scovel graduated from
Ball
State
University
in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology.
He had worked for three years as a field geologist for the
Indiana Geological Survey and the Indiana Department of Transportation
before joining BCA.
His experience includes field sampling, data management, and
water well monitoring.
His primary duties include conducting Phase I and Phase II
Environmental Site Assessments.
Mr. Scovel can be contacted at
the Indianapolis
office or via email at dscovel@bcaconsultants.com
Mr.
Donathen graduated with a degree in Public Affairs and Environmental
Policy from
Indiana
University
. He is an environmental
professional with multiple certifications in waste water and drinking
water operations, as well as a wide-range experience in utilities
management, project management and employee safety programs.
Before joining BCA, Mr. Donathen served as Environmental Health
and Safety Manager for National-Standard Company in
Niles
,
Michigan
, and was directly responsible for the environmental and safety
compliance, policy implementation and training for 250 employees.
He also developed several waste minimization projects, with a
potential annual savings of $200,000 in waste disposal costs.
Mr. Donathen also served as Public Works Director for the Town
of Albion, IN, Operator for the Chain O’Lakes Correctional Facility
Waste Water Treatment Plant in
Albion
,
IN
, Superintendent for the Town of
LaGrange
, IN Waste Water Treatment Plant and Environmental Manager for Maple
Leaf Farms, Inc. In
addition, Mr. Donathen has also provided services to General Mills in
New Albany
,
IN
, Precision Extrusion in
Bensenville
,
IL
and Baycote Metal Finishing in
Mishawaka
,
IN.
Mr.
Donathen is a member of the American Water Works Association, Water
Environment Federation, Indiana Rural Water Association, Indiana Water
Environment Association and Northern Indiana Operators Association.
Mr. Donathen can be contacted at
the Elkhart
office or via email
at ddonathen@bcaconsultants.com
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Miss
Hill graduated with degrees in Environmental Administration and
Political Science from the
University
of
Evansville
in
Evansville
,
Indiana
. Since joining BCA in
March of 2003, she has been extensively involved with air monitoring
and compliance projects. These
projects have included emission inventories, annual compliance
certifications and both quarterly and monthly emissions record
keeping. Miss Hill has
also prepared EPCRA Section 313 Form R reports.
Miss Hill has had experience with a broad range of
manufacturing operations including surface coating, RV and mobile home
manufacturing, piano manufacturing, diesel engine manufacturing,
fiberglass fabrication and meat rendering operations.
She has also assisted clients with air permit modifications,
renewals and amendments. She
has also assisted clients with Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT)
compliance reports and Best Available Control Technology (BACT)
analysis. Ms Hill is a
member of the Environmental Management Association of Northern Indiana
and the Elkhart Chamber of Commerce Environmental Council.
Miss Hill recently completed “Environmental Managers Training
Series” offered through the Environmental Institute and BCA.
Ms. Hill can be contacted at the
Elkhart
office or via email
at
ehill@bcaconsultants.com
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