Remediation Godfathers: Part 2

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Remediation Godfathers: Episode 2 brings 2 more 'Godfathers' of the remediation industry together to relay their lessons learnt, insights, and all things remediation in this Master Class from our speakers with over 60 years combined experience in the industry! Learn from Jim Cummings and Dick Raymond on all the best advice they wish they had had at the beginning of their careers. This webinar will provide you with years of insights to help provide direction in your line of work!

Jim Cummings is in the Technology Assessment Branch in the Office of Site Remediation and Technology Innovation at EPA headquarters. He has over twenty-five years of experience in the development, evaluation and deployment of innovative tools for the characterization and remediation of hazardous waste sites. He provides technical support to federal and state RPMs in cleanup of wood treaters, former Manufactured Gas Plants (MGPs) and chlorinated solvent sites. Building on extensive experience in supporting selection and deployment of in situ thermal technologies, he prepared an EPA report on “Lessons Learned in the Use of In Situ Thermal Technologies.” 

Dick Raymond is the President of Terra Systems, Inc. He founded the company in 1992 after his first bioremediation company, Biosystems, Inc., was purchased by the DuPont Company in 1989 and became DERS (DuPont Environmental Remediation Services). He has over thirty-five years’ of experience in designing and operating aerobic and anaerobic bioremediation systems for hydrocarbon and chlorinated solvent remediation. Terra Systems holds U.S. Patent No. 6,398,960 B1, “Aquifer Remediation Using Emulsified Oils,” for the use of emulsified vegetable oil substrate for reductive dechlorination of chlorinated solvents.

Presenters:

Jim Cummings, Technology Assessment, OSRTI, U.S. EPA

Dick Raymond, President, Terra Systems

Jim Cummings is in the Technology Assessment Branch in the Office of Site Remediation and Technology Innovation at EPA headquarters. He has over twenty-five years of experience in the development, evaluation and deployment of innovative tools for the characterization and remediation of hazardous waste sites. He provides technical support to federal and state RPMs in cleanup of wood treaters, former Manufactured Gas Plants (MGPs) and chlorinated solvent sites. Building on extensive experience in supporting selection and deployment of in situ thermal technologies, he prepared an EPA report on “Lessons Learned in the Use of In Situ Thermal Technologies.” He has chaired sessions and presented at dozens of domestic and international remediation conferences. Recent interests include the use of combined remedies to exploit synergies among technologies and accelerate site closure. In a collaboration between EPA and the National Groundwater Association, he has moderated and presented at a series of Combined Remedy workshops around the country.

Contact: [email protected] // (703) 603–7197

Dick Raymond is the President of Terra Systems, Inc. He founded the company in 1992 after his first bioremediation company, Biosystems, Inc., was purchased by the DuPont Company in 1989 and became DERS (DuPont Environmental Remediation Services). He has over thirty-five years’ of experience in designing and operating aerobic and anaerobic bioremediation systems for hydrocarbon and chlorinated solvent remediation. Terra Systems holds U.S. Patent No. 6,398,960 B1, “Aquifer Remediation Using Emulsified Oils,” for the use of emulsified vegetable oil substrate for reductive dechlorination of chlorinated solvents.

Of historical interest is that Dick Raymond’s father, Richard Raymond, Sr., holds the first U.S. aerobic bioremediation patent for the remediation of gasoline, based on work done at a site in Ambler, Pennsylvania in 1972. Dick was involved in the first anaerobic bioremediation of TCE, which was first demonstrated in 1992 (DuPont; Victoria, TX).

Contact: [email protected]  //  (302) 798–9553