Leaving Your Mark: Changing the World Around You Through Engineering

ABSTRACT

Working as an environmental engineer has given me the opportunity to leave an impact at many sites, often returning contaminated properties to beneficial use, or removing hazards that can impact the local community and ecology. Starting as a field engineer, and progressing through my career, the sense of satisfaction from completing projects has increased. In this talk I will touch on several projects where the remediation process has had a stark impact on the property and will focus on one project example. The former Harrison Avenue Landfill in Camden, NJ which is now the Cramer Hill Waterfront Park and is home to a Salvation Army Community Center. The talk will review how good environmental engineering played a role in this successful project that transformed a local liability into a valuable community resource.

BIOGRAPHY

Howard Nichols, PE, has over 25 years of experience in soil and groundwater remediation with a proven record of remediating complex contaminated sites in state and federal regulatory programs. He has designed and implemented many remediation technologies, and leads the Environmental Engineering Group for the New Providence, New Jersey office of TRC, where he focuses on site remediation and water/wastewater treatment projects. Howard has Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hoboken, New Jersey.