Geo-Hydro, Inc.

Charles H. Norris, P.G.

1928 East 14th Avenue

1763 Corktree Lane

Denver  CO  80206

Mt. Prospect, IL  60056

(303) 322-3171

(847) 635-8335

Fax: (303) 322-8649

Fax: (847) 635-8335

cnorris@geo-hydro.com

cnorrisghi@aol.com

www.geo-hydro.com

*  Twenty plus years of professional experience in geology, hydrogeology and management in the applied and theoretical geosciences. Experience includes performance, oversight review, or management of site assessment; RI/FS; computer modeling of fluid flow, contaminant transport, and geochemistry (applications and code development); policy and rule making procedures; aquifer evaluation; resource development; and litigation support; nationwide and internationally.

Professional Experience 

*  GEO-HYDRO, INC., Denver, Colorado, (1996-present), Principal, President

*  HYDRO-SEARCH, INC., Golden, Colorado, (1992-1996), Director of Hydrogeology

*  UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Urbana, Illinois, (1987-1992), Research Associate; Manager, Industrial Consortium for Research and Education for the Laboratory for Supercomputing in Hydrogeology

*  Consulting Hydrogeologist/Geologist, Champaign, Illinois and Denver, Colorado, (1980-1992)

*  MGF OIL CORPORATION, Denver, Colorado, (1985 - 1986), Manager Geological Engineering

*  PETRO-LEWIS CORPORATION, Denver, Colorado (1980), Districts Geologist

*  TENNECO OIL COMPANY, Denver, Colorado and Houston, Texas, (1977-1980), Senior Geological Engineer

*  AMOCO INTERNATIONAL OIL COMPANY, Chicago, Illinois, (1975-1977), Senior Geologist

*  SHELL OIL COMPANY, Houston and Midland, Texas, (1972-1975), Exploration Geologist

Professional Registrations, Memberships, and Affiliations 

*  Professional Geologist: Wisconsin (# 924), Wyoming (#2989)

*  Registered Environmental Professional (#5350), State of Colorado, Petroleum Storage Tank Fund

*  National Ground Water Association

*  Colorado Groundwater Association (Vice President 1999, President 2000, Past-President 2001)

*  Professional Geologists of Indiana (past)

*  The Colorado Mining Association (past)

*  Illinois Groundwater Association (past)

*  American Association of Petroleum Geologists (past)

*  Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi

Education

*  Ph. D., Hydrogeology, University of Illinois, all but dissertation completed, 1992

*  M.S., Geology, University of Washington, National Science Foundation Fellow, 1970

*  B.S., Geology, University of Illinois, High Honors and Distinction in Geology, 1969

RI/FS & General Site Investigations 

*  Manager  and Hydrogeologist of groundwater investigation at an industrial dump site adjacent to the Illinois River in north Central Illinois.  At issue were fate and transport of 3-4 decades of disposal of mixed, hazardous industrial wastes at an non-engineered floodplain dump site.  Expert testimony and legal support. Pre-trial settlement provided for installation of monitoring system in lieu of site characterization.

*  Manager of groundwater flow modeling performed as part of the groundwater characterization effort and as part of the preliminary remedial designs.  The site is a Superfund site involving both organic and metals contaminants at a wood treating facility in an urban area in Alabama adjacent to a major commercial waterway.

*  Manager of groundwater flow modeling performed as part of the groundwater characterization effort and as part of the 90% and Final remedial designs.  The site is a high profile Superfund site involving both organic and metals contaminants at a wood treating facility in Northern California.

*  Technical Advisor assisting in the evaluation of aquifer properties and well performances for an extraction well field near Sacramento CA.  A high volume pump and treat system for chlorinated solvents showed strong and anomalous decline in productivity.  Detailed evaluation identified both possible causes and recommended operations changes to alleviate the problems.

*  Technical Advisor assisting in the evaluation of aquifer properties and well performances for initial installation of a high volume extraction well field in Southern California.  The chlorinated solvent plume associated with a Superfund site impacted a large area in a layered, heterogeneous groundwater basin managed intensively for public water supplies.

*  Senior oversight and review in the evaluation of aquifer and soil properties, and the remediation of the soils contamination and groundwater impacts associated with compressor facilities of interstate gas transmission companies.  Various projects and sites in western Colorado, Wyoming, and the Texas panhandle.

*  Technical Advisor for the Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS) of the Landfill Solids and Gases Operable Units at the Lowry Landfill CERCLA site located near Denver, Colorado.  This project involves the characterization of the extent of potential contamination within the unsaturated zone adjacent to this high profile site.  Work involves extensive coordination and interaction with multiple PRP groups as well as various regulatory agencies.

*  Project Manager for independent oversight of a proposed low-level radioactive waste disposal site.  Task was to develop technical and legal program for governmentally funded intervener's case as part of adjudicatory hearings on a high-profile, proposed disposal facility and involved identifying, retaining and educating legal staff, retaining a team of technical experts, negotiating fees, coordinating work product and presentations, providing liaison with citizen's groups, responding to press and integrating personal testimony on hydrogeology and modeling.  Expert testimony and legal support.

*  Technical Reviewer of site assessment and re-assessment of a proposed inter-governmental regional landfill in central Illinois.  Verified unanticipated, politically unacceptable risks to major aquifer system serving public water supplies.  Assisted in drafting of technical policy statement that permitted new siting efforts to proceed in the jurisdiction.  Expert testimony.

Landfill Services

*  Project Manager and Hydrogeologist for a geologic and hydrogeologic assessment of a proposed regional landfill in Will County, Illinois.  Expert testimony and legal support.   Research documented numerous errors in application which resulted in underestimation of infiltration rates and potential migration rates.  Established evidence of sub-karstic migration pathway from site to nearby stream.  Application was approved with some 56 modifications.

*  Project Manager and Hydrogeologist for a geologic and hydrogeologic assessment of a proposed regional landfill expansion at East Peoria, Illinois.  Research documented current leakage from the existing landfill into the regional unconfined aquifer within the cone of depression of the municipal water supply wells.  In part as a result of the evaluation, the proposed expansion has been abandoned.  Expert testimony and legal support.

*  Project Manager and Hydrogeologist for a geologic and hydrogeologic assessment of a proposed regional landfill at Ottawa, Illinois.  Provided testimony at county hearings identifying and documenting site-specific conditions that invalidated part of the ground water evaluation testing, necessitating the need to re-evaluate the groundwater flow system and redesign the monitoring system.  Expert testimony and legal support.

*  Project Manager and Hydrogeologist for a geologic and hydrogeologic assessment of existing municipal landfills and a proposed landfill redesign and expansion at Salem, Illinois.  Provided testimony at city hearings documenting existing landfill leakage and identifying site-specific conditions that complicate the design of a reliable monitoring system.  Expert testimony and legal support.

*  Project Manager and Hydrogeologist for site evaluations of the geology and hydrogeology of several proposed municipal landfills and a landfill expansion in Bartholomew County, Indiana.  The review of the expansion demonstrated inadequate monitoring of the existing facility.  One proposed site showed possible, current ground water usage from under the proposed facility and conditions that may preclude state-level site approval. 

*  Project Manager and Hydrogeologist serving in consultation to the Board of Wayne County, Illinois, regarding a proposed expansion to a regional landfill.  Investigation and oversight established viability of the physical site and improvements that were needed in operating procedures and monitoring efforts.  Expert testimony and legal support.

*  Project Manager and Hydrogeologist for an assessment of an existing regional municipal landfill at Urbana, Illinois.  Principle problems included ground water contamination, unplugged well(s) within the facility boundary that penetrated the aquifer serving public water supplies and a monitoring system inadequate to evaluate the contaminant migration.  Results of the evaluation include an expanded system of monitoring wells, improved protocols for ground water sampling and revised statistical procedures to determine background water chemistries.

*  Project Manager and Hydrogeologist for a site assessment of a proposed municipal landfill expansion in west central Indiana.  Established feasibility of using the engineering and design features of the expansion to prevent contamination from the pre-existing non-engineered facility.

*  Project Hydrogeologist for a site assessment of a proposed saturated-zone, regional balefill in central Illinois.  Principal problems involved the evaluation of the hydrogeologic characteristics of the strip mine spoils within which excavation would occur, the blasted mine bottom upon which the liners would be built and the materials available for liner construction.  Numerous improvements to the initial design were incorporated in the approved and permitted facility.  Expert testimony and legal support.

*  Project Manager and Hydrogeologist for a site assessment of a proposed municipal landfill expansion in Livingston County, Illinois.  Principal problems involved the evaluation of the impact of shallow coal tunnel mining beneath the site and reaction of waste leachate with unusual clay mineralogy important to waste isolation at the site.  Expert testimony.

Water Resource Evaluation & Development 

*  Project Manager for multi-company effort to model thermal loading of northern Nevada surface waters as a result of mine dewatering project.  Successful liaison among technical staffs and regulators and modeling work for a high profile EIS resulted in approval of discharge permit.

*  Project Hydrogeologist for the feasibility study of a small lake for a northern Illinois nursery, to be used for recreation, fishing and irrigation.  Evaluated shallow and intermediate ground water and surface run-off, reviewed engineering design and directed ground and surface water sampling program to determine nutrient levels.

Hydrochemistry

*  Project Geochemist and Hydrogeologist for evaluation and critique of modeling protocols used by USEPA for risk assessments performed as part of regulatory determinations for various solid wastes.  Identified errors in methodology and input that had caused previous modeling to mischaracterize risks for settings with observed damage cases.  Computer modeling.

*  Geochemist and Hydrogeologist for evaluations of inorganic groundwater chemistry at an industrial RCRA site near Joplin MO.  Federal lawsuit filed pursuant to PRP contribution and sources and timing of contamination.  Was able to use geochemical interpretations to establish significant elements of aquifer characteristics and implications for contamination routes.  Expert testimony.

*  Project Hydrogeologist and Geochemist for evaluations of proposed coal combustion waste disposal as part of reclamation activities at surface coal mines in Southwestern Indiana.  Ongoing efforts are targeted toward refining regulatory framework for disposal efforts, establishing effective characterization and monitoring programs and determining appropriate operation and engineering practices.  Project involves extensive interdisciplinary effort and expert testimony.

*  Project Geochemist for the investigation of the impacts of remediating acid mine drainage by installing bulkheads to flood exhausted mine working.  Predictively modeled water chemistries in situ, within flooded mine, along flow paths and upon surface discharge.  Assisted in preparation of testimony that resulted in permit approval for the San Juan County, Colorado project.

*  Project Manager and Project Geochemist/Hydrogeologist for investigation of potential environmental impacts of disposal of coal combustion wastes (CCW) as part of a reclamation plan at a surface coal mine in northern New Mexico.  Performed or directed geochemical, infiltration and flow modeling of the proposed project to identify optimum disposal methods and worst case impacts.  Presentation to State resulted in approval of this precedent-setting project.

*  Project Manager, Geochemist and Hydrogeologist for an investigation of a proposed disposal/construction project to build a central Illinois ski mountain from fly ash produced by a co-generating plant operated by a major food products manufacturer.  The investigation involved overseeing an engineering review of project plans, a site investigation and evaluation, geochemical modeling of initial and final mineralogical composition of the mass and of the leachate chemistry and evolution and the impact on the hydrogeologic and structural integrity of the project.  Expert testimony and legal support.

Related Petroleum Industry Experience 

*  Project Manager for the environmental assessment of 82 Texas producing properties targeted for acquisition.  Evaluations included site walk-overs, surface soil and liquid sampling, radiological monitoring and geoprobe sampling of soils and ground water.  The assessments documented a multitude of impacts from both exempt and non-exempt wastes that, unrecognized, could have resulted in substantial financial exposure to the client.

*  Project Geologist and Petrophysicist for an investigation of resource potential of coal bed methane in San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Colorado.  Study focused on innovative log analysis techniques; formation water chemistries, production rates and disposal problems; well drilling, completion and re-completion practices; and detailed subsurface facies and structural mapping and stratigraphic correlation in shallow coal beds of Kirtland/Fruitland/Pictured Cliffs shoreline complex and relationships to overlying Tertiary sandstones.

*  Developed a successful play in the Hunton and Mississippi Lime formations of northwest Oklahoma.  The play recognized the secondary porosity systems of both formations (dolomitization and fracturing, respectively) and the genetic significance to each of the buried topography at the intervening unconformity.

*  Managed a detailed reservoir study of a Cotton Valley gas field in east Texas that resulted in RRC approval of non-standard spacing based upon the recognition of secondary porosity and a dual-conductivity system that resulted from drape-induced fractures.  The revised spacing both protected resource ownership and conserved the costs of infill drilling.    Expert testimony and legal support.

*  Project Geologist, Petrophysicist and Expert  for various contested adjudicatory hearings apportioning  oil and gas ownership.  Cases involved primary recovery of both oil and gas and secondary recovery of oil.  Accepted as expert (geology, hydrogeology, and/or geological engineering) in Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming.

Additional Project Experience 

*  Project Manager and Hydrogeologist for the review of Proposed and Revised Proposed Criteria for the Siting of a Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility in Illinois.  Evaluation was targeted toward both technical content and processes of selection.  Testimony and written comments led to significant improvements and flexibility in the Criteria as finally published.

*  Project Hydrogeologist testifying at hearings before the Illinois Pollution Control Board on regulatory language for the Illinois Ground Water Protection Act.  Contributed major conceptual and specific language changes to the final promulgated rules for Ground Water Quality Standards and Regulations for Existing and New Activities with Setback Zones and Regulated Recharge Areas.  Expert testimony and legal support.

*  Project Hydrogeologist and Log Analyst for three applications to U.S. EPA for permits to continue deep well disposal of hazardous wastes in east central Illinois and southern Ohio.  Project required evaluation of geophysical logging data to determine injection zone and confining layer properties, regional flow systems, chemical interactions of the waste stream with the native rock and the ability of the injection system to isolate the waste from the environment.

Reports, Presentations, and Publications 

*  Norris, C.H., and C. E.  Hubbard, Use of MINTEQA2 and EPACMTP to Estimate Groundwater Pathway Risks from the Land Disposal of Metal-Bearing Wastes, for Environmental Technology Council, submitted as public comment to USEPA on regulatory determination for Fossil Fuel Combustion Wastes, May, 1999.

*  Norris, C.H., "Report on the Determination of Intermittent Streams and the Potential Impacts of Valley Fill on Area Drainages, Southern West Virginia", expert report for litigation prepared for Mountain States Justice, Inc, Charleston WV, March, 1999.

*  Norris, C.H., "Report on the Geology and Hydrogeology of the Caterpillar Levee Site with an Evaluation of Potential Pathways on- and off-site for the Movement of Solid and Hazardous Wastes", expert report for litigation prepared for Citizens for a Better Environment, Chicago IL, March, 1998.

*  Norris, C.H., "Dr Pepper, Biorhythms, and the Eight-Hour Pumping Test ", Colorado Ground Waster Association Annual Meeting, Golden CO, December, 1997.

*  Norris, C.H., "Characterizing Ash Composition and (vs.)  Projecting Environmental Impact for Purposes of Permitting CCW Disposal ", Coal Combustion By-Products Associated with Coal Mining - Interactive Forum, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale IL, October, 1996.

*  Norris, C.H.,  "Geochemical Modeling".   Co-instructor for Short Course on Hydrogeologic Issues Related to Mine Permitting, Reclamation and Closure, SME Annual Convention, Phoenix AZ; March, 1996.

*  Norris, C.H., in prep., An Improved Method for Middle Time Analysis of Slug and Bail Test.  1994.

*  Norris, C.H., "Evolution of the Landfill", presentation as part of a Telnet program, Garbage Dilemma Educational Series, sponsored by Illinois Farm Bureau and Cooperative Extension Service of the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, April 20, 1992.

*  Norris, C.H., "Technical Analysis or Political Acceptability:  The Domesticated Fowl or its Ovum", Solid Waste Management and Local Government Workshop, sponsored by Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, Jan-Apr, 1992.

*  Norris, C.H., Report on the Geology and Hydrogeology [of the] SWDA Proposed Landfill Site, Township 8 North, Range 6 East, Section 31, Bartholomew County, Indiana, for Central States Education Center, Champaign, Illinois, 1991.

*  Norris, C.H., Hydrogeology and Modeling of the Proposed Illinois Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Site at Martinsville, Illinois; testimony before the LLRW Siting Commission, October and November, 1991, Martinsville, Illinois.

*  Norris, C.H., Ground Water Quality Standards for the Illinois Ground Water Protection Act; testimony before Illinois Pollution Control Board, Chicago, Illinois; February, May, October and December, 1990; May, 1991.

*  Norris, C.H., Hearing on a Petition for a Special Use Permit for the Construction of a Ski Mountain in Oakley Township, Macon County, Illinois; testimony before the Macon County Zoning Board of Appeals; February 16, 1990.

*  Norris, C.H., Hearing on a Solid Waste Disposal Permit for the Siting of a Municipal Landfill for Streator, Illinois; testimony before the Livingston County Board; August 6, 1990.

*  Norris, C.H., In the matter of the Gallatin National Company Proposed Balefill, Fulton County, Illinois, written comments to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Springfield, Illinois, 1990.

Norris, C.H., 1990, Log Analysis of the Allied Chemical Corporation Waste Injection Well, Danville, Illinois, for Alberto Nieto, Champaign, Illinois.

*  Norris, C.H., 1989, Log Analysis of the Cabot Corporation Waste Disposal Wells, Tuscola, Illinois, for Alberto Nieto, Champaign, Illinois.

*  Norris, C.H., Regulations for Existing and New Activities Within Setback Zones and Regulated Recharge Areas for the Illinois Ground Water Protection Act; testimony before Illinois Pollution Control Board, Chicago, Illinois, June, 1989.

*  Norris, C.H., and C.M. Bethke, (Abstract) "Mathematical Models of Subsurface Processes in Sedimentary Basins", Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in Geophysical Fluid and Solid Mechanics, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, September 28 (invited paper), 1989.

*  Norris, C.H., "An Evaluation of the Geology and the Monitoring Well Data [at the] City of Urbana Regional Landfill", report submitted to the City of Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois, for Central States Education Center, Champaign, Illinois, 1989.

*  Norris, C.H., Gallatin National Proposed Balefill/Landfill [at] Fairview, Illinois; testimony before Fairview Town Council, Fairview, Illinois, November, 1988.

*  Norris, C.H., "Evaluation of the Hydrogeologic Factors Influencing Risk [at the] ISWDA Regional Landfill Site B", report submitted to the Inter-Governmental Solid Waste Disposal Association, Champaign County, Illinois, 1988.

*  Norris, C.H., and C.M. Bethke, "Status and Future Directions of Quantitative Flow Modeling in Sedimentary Basins", Workshop on Quantitative Dynamic Stratigraphy (QDS), Colorado School of Mines, Lost Valley Ranch, Colorado, February 14-18, 1988.