Douglas W. Bauman, P.E., MSE
Principle Engineer and Director
Position and Responsibilities
As the Principle Engineer, Mr. Bauman oversees all activities of the Environmental Engineering Departments.
Principal functions include organic and inorganic chemistry, laboratory management, training of analysts, equipment calibration, operation and maintenance, reviewing analytical reports and supervision of field sampling. Mr. Bottorf has over twenty years of experience in environmental chemistry covering all standard matrices (air, water, wastewater and soil).
Project Experience
Mr. Bauman has over 15 years of experience in the field of Environmental Engineering, a Master of Science in Engineering, and is a Florida Licensed Professional Engineer. His experience was obtained both as a consulting engineer and while serving 5 years as Corporate Environmental Engineer for a large, heavy regulated manufacturing company based in the southeastern United States, with distribution and sales centers nationwide. The majority of his experience is centered on air permitting and compliance at all levels, design and troubleshooting of major air pollution control systems, industrial wastewater treatment design and permitting, regulatory compliance for industry, indoor air quality and industrial hygiene, contamination assessment and remediation, and storm water permitting. Much of Mr. Bauman’s environmental engineering work is conducted in conjunction with proposed new industrial facilities. Mr. Bauman has a unique advantage, in that he has spent much of his time within manufacturing plants, on the floor where the products are being manufactured, and enjoys merging the manufacturing side of things with environmental compliance, while not jeopardizing unit production efficiency, maintaining or even lowering unit cost, and controlling environmental risk. Mr. Bauman has several well-known clients throughout Florida, many of who are Major Sources of air pollution, large quantity industrial wastewater generators, large quantity generators of waste for which he provides Professional Engineering services on an ongoing basis.
Air Pollution Control and Permitting
- Asphalt Plants - Involved in construction/operation permitting and testing of a half-dozen asphalt plants in Central Florida. Permitting including New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for this type of facility.
- Citrus and Food Processors - Involved in air permitting and testing for a wide variety of peel dryers, pellet coolers, fryers, boilers, and gas turbines. Most of the citrus plants have been clients for over 20 years.
- Concrete Batch and Block Plants - Involved in the permitting and testing for several plants.
- Soil Thermal Treatment Facilities - Involved in permitting and testing of four treatment facilities for soil contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons.
Hazardous Waste and Groundwater Monitoring
- Citrus Packing and Processing Plants - Involved in establishing Ground Water Monitoring Plans, monitor well installation and sampling, and regulatory reports for over a twenty facilities. These facilities generally utilize percolation ponds or spray fields for effluent disposal.
- Soil Thermal Treatment Facilities - Mr. Bottorf oversees all per-burn, virgin, and post-burn soil analysis. At two of these facilities, the ground water monitoring and reporting is also conducted.
- Soil Analysis, Regulatory (FDEP) input - Provided substantial input into revision of sampling and analytical requirements in state regulations. Due to this input, the requirement for analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in pre-burn soil samples was eliminated. Since, by definition, these samples were contaminated, there was no need to provide redundant analysis. The reference in these regulations to analysis of "halides", which refers to a water media, was changed to halogenated compounds, which is more appropriate for soil.
- Soil Analysis for Environmental Assessments - Oversees sampling and analysis of soil samples from potentially contaminated sites. Parameters include Total Recoverable Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TRPH), VOCs, pesticides, herbicides, heavy metals, extractable organics and field parameters.
- Hazardous Waste Identification and Analysis - Routinely performs analysis and identification of hazardous wastes using RCRA protocols
Water and Wastewater
- Citrus Packing and Processing Plants - Oversees the sampling and analysis, including Volatile and Extractable Organics, Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD5), Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), Total Organic Carbon (TOC), surfactants (MBAS), metals, ammonia, nitrate-nitrite, Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen (TKN), composite samples and field parameters.
- Domestic Wastewater Plants - Oversees the sampling and analysis, including BOD5, percent solids, residual chlorine, composite sludge samples, total coliform, fecal coliform, metals and field parameters.
- Entertainment Parks - Oversees weekly and monthly monitoring at local theme parks for Class III water quality standards.
- Metal Fabricators - Oversees monitoring for domestic waster pretreatment requirements at metal plating and finishing facilities.
- Public Drinking Water Systems - Performs sampling and analysis for Community and Non-Community Public water systems. Oversees main clearances for developers and piping contractors.
- Restaurants and Food Services - Provides sampling, analysis and process quality control services as well as monitoring for domestic waste pretreatment standards.
- Concrete Plants - Oversees routine monitoring of waste water from concrete block and batch plants.
Indoor Air Quality
- Industrial Production Facilities - Designed and performed sampling and testing protocols for indoor air quality at manufacturing facilities.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering, University of Central Florida, May 1992
Master of Science in Environmental Engineering, University of Central Florida, May 1994
Certifications
- Visible Emissions Evaluator
- Professional Engineer License No. 0050807 - State of Florida Board of Professional Engineers