Jerome Wentz, P.G., M.S., B.S., B.A.

President

 

Mr. Wentz is an environmental professional with 20 years of experience in report preparation, project management, field inspection, sample collection & documentation. Mr. Wentz is a Florida State Board-certified Professional Geologist and Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) Qualified Stormwater Management Inspector.

 

Mr. Wentz graduated in 1996 with a Bachelor of Science in Geology and a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. From late 1996 to early 1999, Mr. Wentz taught science, math and English, as a secondary school teacher, while serving as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in the Solomon Islands, South Pacific.

 

Shortly after, Mr. Wentz earned his Master of Science degree in Geology from West Virginia University. His graduate thesis research focused on laboratory batch tests of coal combustion fly ash by-product mixed with known concentrations of common petroleum contaminants found in groundwater, in order to measure the organic sorption of fly ash, as a potential remediation surrogate.

 

From 2002 until the present, Mr. Wentz has worked full-time as a private consultant on projects in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, District of Columbia and Florida. Mr. Wentz prepares reports and manages field work for Due Diligence, Phase I & II Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs), Underground Storage Tank (UST) & Above Ground Storage Tank (AST) Closure Assessments, throughout various commercial and industrial sites, using: Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), hand-auger, sonic and direct-push, hollow-stem-auger and mud-rotary sample collection and monitoring well installation methods, in order to delineate the extents of metals, light non-aqueous phase liquids (LNAPL) and dense non-aqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) in soil and groundwater.

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Environmental and Geological Services:

• Due Diligence;

• Quality Assurance;

• Ground Penetrating Radar surveys;

• Construction Dewatering permitting;

• Aquifer Testing & Groundwater Modeling;

• Class V, Group 6 Stormwater Drainage Well permitting;

• NPDES Stormwater and Sedimentation Control permitting & inspection;

• Drilling oversight, borehole logging, soil and groundwater sampling;

• UST, AST, Dry-cleaner and Agrichemicals Site Assessments;

• Phase I & II Environmental Site Assessments;

• Drinking Water & Well Water Sampling.

 

License and Certifications:

• Professional Geologist, Florida, License #2563

• Qualified Stormwater Management Inspector,                    FDEP, Inspector #28066

• EPA Lead-Safe Renovator, Certification #170522

 

Specialized Education & Training:

• U.S. EPA 8-hour Lead-Safe Renovator Course, Seagull Environmental Management Company, 2017;

• Stormwater Erosion and Sedimentation Control Inspector Training Program, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, 2012;

• Construction Quality Management for Contractors, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 2011;

• Theory and Practice of Applying Subsurface Interface Radar in Engineering and Geophysical Investigations, Geophysical Survey Systems, Inc., 2011;

• Introduction to ArcGIS, ESRI, 2008;

• Advanced Aquifer Testing Techniques Featuring Aqtesolv: New Concepts, Field Methods, and Data Analysis Procedures, Midwest Geoscience Group, 2006;

• Nuclear Gauge Safety Training, Troxler Electronic Laboratories, Inc., 2006;

• Regulatory Training in Underground Storage Tanks, Cook College-Rutgers University, 2003;

• 40-hour Hazardous Waste Site Worker (OSHA 1910.120), All American Environmental Services, Inc., 2002

 

Education:

• West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

• Master of Science in Geology, 2004

• Bachelor of Science in Geology, 1996

• Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry, 1996

 

Professional Society Memberships:

• American Institute of Professional Geologist

• Florida Association of Professional Geologist

• Everglades Geological Society

• Fossil Club of Lee County

• National Speleological Society

• American Chemical Society