August 2, 2005

Environmental Watch: Ridolfi adds staff, moves office

Bowden

Chan

Ridolfi

Tom Bowden is a scientist and geologist with 24 years of experience doing studies on hazardous waste, sediment quality and geology. Jina Chan is an ecologist. She interned for Ridolfi while earning a master's in environmental horticulture and urban forestry from the University of Washington. Joseph S. Mathieu joined as a civil engineer. His expertise is in preparing plans, specifications and cost estimates for site development and drainage improvement projects. Senior engineer Sheila M. Fleming has 14 years of experience, including work on site investigations, human health and ecological risk assessments, and litigation technical support.

The company's president and principal engineer Callie Ridolfi recently received a master's in sustainable business from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute.

Ridolfi's new office is at Waterfront Place, 1011 Western Ave., Suite 1006 in Seattle. It moved from 1411 Fourth Ave.

Anchor expands natural resources staff

SEATTLE — Anchor Environmental added six people to its staff. In its Seattle office, Calvin Douglas will work on natural resource planning and environmental permitting, Brad Thiele will focus on environmental planning for Interstate 405 and Robert Hannon will do accounting.

Pat Powers was a fisheries engineer with the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, and is now working in Anchor's Olympia office. Ben Hung joined the company's Portland office to work on sediment projects in Portland Harbor. Jason Kase is in Ocean Springs, Miss., where he is working on projects along the Louisiana and Texas coasts.

Anchor is an environmental science and engineering firm that focuses on shoreline projects.

New hires join EnviroIssues in Seattle

SEATTLE — EnviroIssues, a local public involvement and facilitation firm, added staff in Seattle.

Molly Edmonds and Toby Crittenden have joined as project coordinators. Edmonds was an intern at APCO Worldwide, and Crittenden was a legislative intern for Seattle City Councilmember Peter Steinbrueck. New associate Emily Fishkin has worked with nonprofits based in Washington, D.C.

Graphic designer Danielle Johnson was with Minuteman Press. Marshall Aune is a graphics intern working on a degree in design and multimedia. Intern Lauren Stensland was a transportation and legislative intern at the Washington Public Interest Group.

EnviroIssues consults with government and industry on technical and regulatory projects. Offices are in Seattle, Richland and Portland.

Huckell/Weinman Associates adds two

KIRKLAND — Environmental and economics planning firm Huckell/Weinman Associates added two to its Kirkland headquarters.

Amy Harrison Keenan is a land use planner with four years of experience in public sector planning. She has worked on planning projects within city and county jurisdictions and has reviewed land use applications for compliance with zoning and critical areas regulations. Keenan is working on campus master plans for Shoreline Community College and Yakima Memorial Hospital.

Jack Middleton is an associate planner with experience in natural resource economics, environmental law and policy, and forest planning. He is working on a master plan for South Seattle community college and other projects in DuPont and Connell.

Huckell/Weinman specializes in land use, regulatory compliance, and environmental planning and economics.

SCS doing waste plan for NW tribes

BELLEVUE — Solid waste management firm SCS Engineers is working on a document for Northwest tribal governments to use in managing solid waste. The Tribal Solid Waste Advisory Network got a $60,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency and hired SCS to prepare the template. A draft is set to be complete by late fall.

"Nonpermitted illegal dumps is one issue they're trying to address," said SCS spokesman Scott W. Lester. Reservations are often in remote areas, he said, which makes it expensive to hire private haulers to move waste to large regional facilities.

The Bellevue office of SCS is working with its Long Beach, Calif., headquarters to write the template document on managing solid waste. It will cover options for recycling and ways to handle hazardous waste, for example, as well as case studies of other municipal and tribal solid waste programs. Users can customize it based on specific regulations and desired results.

Lester said tribal representatives, regulatory agencies and waste haulers are also helping create the document.

The Tribal Solid Waste Advisory Network represents tribal governments in Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Alaska. Members can use the document on a voluntary basis. No deadline is set to put it into practice.

PUD offers $35 for your old fridge

EVERETT — Snohomish County PUD and a company called Jaco Environmental are offering customers $35 for old refrigerators and freezers.

This program is designed to help customers get rid of older, inefficient units that can use up to three times the energy newer models use, PUD officials say. It will run through the end of this year, or when 3,700 units are collected, whichever occurs first.

Jaco is an appliance recycler. It will pick up units and bring them to its recycling facility in Portland. More than 90 percent of each refrigerator or freezer will be recycled there, through a process Jaco uses to dispose of toxins and CFC-11, ozone-destroying chloroflourocarbon gases. These are released from foam insulation.

Appliances must be 1995 models or older, in working condition and between 10 and 27 cubic feet in size. For more information, Snohomish County PUD customers can call (877) 577-0510.