Warren Knotts P.G.

Warren E. Knotts, P.G. Geomorphologist | Hydrologist | Geochemist Aquatic Resources Restoration Specialist AllStar Ecology, LLC, Fairmont, West Virginia Office: 304.816.3460 E-mail: Appalachian.Geologist@Frontier.com Curriculum Vitae: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/warren-e-knotts-p-g-/35/97b/608/     SUMMARY   Mr. Knotts has over twenty five years of continuous professional, postgraduate experience in engineering geology, stream restoration and natural channel design, conservation easement negotiations and acquisitions, mitigation banking, CWA, NEPA due diligence investigations, NPDES permitting, surface and deep mine permitting, cumulative hydrogeologic impact assessments, comprehensive erosion and sediment control designs, plans and implementation, mine reclamation, acid mine drainage treatment and abatement, surveying, groundwater hydrogeology, aqueous geochemistry, multimedia contaminant fate and transport modeling, groundwater flow modeling, surface water hydrology and hydraulics, mineral lease negotiations, Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) landfill siting, permitting, design, construction, maintenance and closure, geo-hazards investigations, low impact development, Superfund and Brownfields project management, environmental risk assessments, remediation and reuse, operation and maintenance (O&M) of remedial systems at sites contaminated with chlorinated solvents, explosives, petrochemicals at DoD installations, chemical manufacturing, retail, bulk storage and refinery facilities, Environmental Site Assessments, and hold professional geologist licenses in the states of Florida and Alabama with licensure reciprocity in 30 states.   Specialties: Projects Supervision, Project Management, Budgeting, Scheduling, Tasks Prioritizing, Technical Work Scoping, Cost Analysis & Pricing, Construction Management, Regulatory Affairs Policy Liaison, Public Relations Facilitation, Team Building, Riverine & Riparian Ecosystem Restoration, Natural Channel Design, Floodplain Mapping, Brownfields & Superfund Site Cleanups (including NPL Listed DoD Sites), Risk-Based Corrective Action Cleanups, MSW Landfill Siting, Permitting, Design, Construction, Monitoring, Maintenance, Closure & Post-Closure Care, Mining & Reclamation Design, Expert Witness   WORK HISTORY   •           AllStar Ecology, LLC, Fairmont, West Virginia (December 2013 – Present)   •           Mid-Atlantic Highlands Hydrology, Principal, Parsons, West Virginia (March 2010 – December 2013)   •           Evans, Mechwart, Hambleton & Tilton, Inc., Water Resources Engineering Division, Senior Geomorphologist, Columbus, Ohio (November 2005 – March 2010)   •           WV Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Land Restoration, Office of Environmental Remediation, Project Manager, Voluntary Remediation & Redevelopment Act (Brownfields) Program, Superfund Program, Charleston, West Virginia (May 1998 – February 2005).   •           Handex Environmental, Inc., Southeast Region Risk-Based Corrective Action Manager, Mount Dora, Florida (April 1994 – May 1998).   •           WV Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Water & Waste Management, Solid Waste Management Section, MSW Landfill Permitting Unit, Charleston, West Virginia, State Geologist (August 1989 – April 1994).   •           Terra-Tech Associates, Inc., Civil – Mining – Environmental Engineering & Surveying Consultants, Consulting Environmental Geologist, Kingwood, West Virginia (May 1987 – August 1989).                     EDUCATION   Bachelor of Science Degree - Geology: West Virginia University, 1987.   Associate in Arts and Sciences Degree - Geology:  Potomac State College of West Virginia University, 1985.   River Restoration & Natural Channel Design (Rosgen Level 4), Wildland Hydrology, Inc., Research and Educational Center for River Studies, David L. Rosgen, Ph.D., P.H., Fort Collins, Colorado, presented in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, 2006.   Professional Electives and Post-Graduate Course Work   Surveying, Advanced Surveying and Boundary Law, Underground Mine Surveying, Groundwater Hydrology, Aqueous Geochemistry; Advanced Groundwater Hydrology; Groundwater Seminar; Technical Communications; Surface Mining Methods and Design.   Undergraduate Internships: KC&M Mining Company, Inc.; Simms & Shores Consultants, Inc.; Mountain State Surveying, Inc.; (Mining, Surveying & Environmental Consulting), Kingwood, West Virginia, (May 1983 – May 1987).   PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS AND LICENSES   State of Florida, Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Division of Professions, Board of Professional Geologists, P.G. License No. 1762.   State of Alabama, Board of Licensure for Professional Geologists, P.G. License No.123.   OSHA, 1910.120, Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response, 40 Hour Course, Certificate No.: HAZ9411010404.   PEER RECOGNITION   Wellington Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals – Lifetime Honors Member, inducted 2008-2009. See press release at http://www.1888pressrelease.com/wellington-who-s-who-selects-warren-e-knotts-p-g-as-an-hon-pr-120238.html .   10 Year Distinguished Service Award, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, Charleston, West Virginia, July 2004.   National Register’s Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals; Professional biography published in the National Register’s Who’s Who 2004 Edition, registered at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. in a leather bound, gold leaf edition.    PUBLICATIONS   Characterization of the Geology and Hydrology in the Vicinity of the LCS Services, Inc., North Mountain Waste Management Facility in Berkeley County, West Virginia, and Impacts of the Facility on the Environment and Water Supplies , Peter Lessing, Ph.D., Senior Research Advisor, WV Geologic Survey, Stuart L. Dean, Professor of Geology, University of Toledo, Henry W. Rauch, Ph.D., Professor of Hydrogeology, WV University, Joseph P. Shock, P.P.H., P.E., Director, Office of Environmental Services, WV Department of Health and Human Resources, James R. Barnhart, Sanitarian, Berkeley County Health Department, Shad Kianouri, Geologist, Waste Management Section, WV Division of Natural Resources, and Warren E. Knotts, P.G., Waste Management Section, WV Division of Natural Resources (a.k.a. The North Mountain Site Environmental Review Team), March 1991.   Florida Risk-Based Corrective Action Guidelines under Proposed Changes to Chapter 62-770, Florida Administrative Code , Florida Petroleum Marketer’s Association, Petrogram, Volume 13, Number 3, March 1997.   Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Sensible Approach to Cost Effective Petroleum Contamination Assessment and Remediation through 62-770, Florida Administrative Code , Florida Petroleum Marketer’s Association, Petrogram, Volume 13, Number 4, April 1997.   Achieving Conditional Site Closure at Petroleum Release Sites through the Use of Institutional and Engineering Controls , Florida Petroleum Marketer’s Association, Petrogram, Volume 13, Number 9, September 1997.     CONTINUING EDUCATION     •           Highland Problems and Downstream Connections, An Environmental Summit for the Mid-Atlantic Highlands, West Virginia University, Environmental Research Center hosted by the Canaan Valley Institute, Davis, West Virginia, March 2010.   •           NPDES MS4 TMDL Permit Renewal Process for Municipalities in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Watershed Management, Stormwater Planning & Management Section, Barry A. Newman, M.S., P.E., February 21, 2012.   •           Understanding Dynamic Equilibrium in Natural Streams, The Ohio State University, Professor Andy Ward, Ph.D., P.E.   •           AutoCAD for Stream Restoration & Design, NC State University, David Bidelspach, P.E.   •           Stream Restoration Construction Certification, North Carolina State University, Greg Jennings, Ph.D., P.E.   •           Erosion & Sediment Control Design at River Restoration Sites, North Carolina State University, Greg Jennings, Ph.D., P.E.   •           River Restoration & Natural Channel Design, Wildland Hydrology, Inc., Research and Educational Center for River Studies, David L. Rosgen, Ph.D., Fort Collins, Colorado, presented at Pagosa Springs Resort, Colorado, August 2006.   •           River Assessment & Monitoring, Wildland Hydrology, Inc., Research and Educational Center for River Studies, David L. Rosgen, Ph.D., Fort Collins, Colorado, presented at Lubrecht Experimental Forest, Missoula, Montana, September 2005.     •           River Morphology & Applications, Wildland Hydrology, Inc., Research and Educational Center for River Studies, David L. Rosgen, Ph.D., Fort Collins, Colorado, presented at Cacapon State Resort, Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, June 2005.   •           Applied Sediment Transport, Canaan Valley Institute, Education, Science & Technology Outreach Program, Thomas, West Virginia, August 2004.   •           Applied Fluvial Geomorphology, Wildland Hydrology, Inc., Research and Educational Center for River Studies, David L. Rosgen, Ph.D., Fort Collins, Colorado, presented at Blackwater Falls State Resort, Davis, West Virginia, April 2004.   •           Environmental and Natural Resources Conference, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Center for Expertise, Fort Worth, Texas, April 2003.   •           The Princeton Remediation Course, Princeton Groundwater, Denver, Colorado, April 2001   •           Department of Defense, Groundwater Modeling System (GMS v 3.1), Boss International, Charleston, West Virginia November 2000.   •           Department of Defense, Groundwater Modeling System (GMS v 3.0), Environmental Modeling Systems, Inc., Provo, Utah, October - November 1998.   •           PC Applications in Risk Assessment, Remediation, Modeling and GIS, National Groundwater Association, San Francisco, California, October 1998.   •           ASTM User Training in Risk-Based Corrective Action Applied at Petroleum Release Sites, Tampa, Florida, 1995.   •           Groundwater Pollution and Hydrology - The Princeton Course, Princeton Groundwater, Orlando, Florida, 1994.   •           2D/3D Geologic and Hydrologic Modeling using Earth Vision® Software, Educational Services, Dynamic Graphics, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland, 1993.   •           Designing with Geosynthetics, Department of Civil Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1992.   •           Design, Operation and Closure of Municipal Solid Waste Landfills, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1992.   •           Clay Liners and Covers for Waste Disposal Facilities, College of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 1991.   •           Sanitary Landfill Design, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 1990.   •           Site Characterization for Subsurface Remediation, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Dallas, Texas, 1989.