Trident offers a full range of environmental consulting, remediation, and planning services that concentrate on the following areas:
- LSRP Services
- Site Remediation
- UST Services
- Environmental Site Assessments
- Wetlands
- Ecological
- Threatened & Endangered Species
- GIS AND GPS
- Child Care Center RAO Issuance
- Due Dilligence
- Pollution Claim Management
OUR MISSION
Trident Environmental is committed to providing our clients with the highest standards of quality and performance at a competitive cost. Through our broad-based experience and technical expertise, we promise to deliver practical solutions to oftentimes complicated environmental liabilities. We believe that constantly updating our technical knowledge of ever-changing environmental regulations and policies enables us to deliver the most reliable advice and predictable outcomes to our clients.
Our Leadership Team
Bill Schmitt, MS, LSRP
Bill currently directs the firm’s environmental services in the Toms River, NJ office. In that capacity, he directs and coordinates project personnel during the execution of the firm’s environmental work, which includes providing senior technical oversight, developing investigation and remediation strategies, conducting proper due diligence environmental site assessments, reviewing and editing client and regulatory reports, assessing remediation designs, managing and removing underground storage tanks, as well as reviewing field and lab analysis of soil, groundwater, surface water and sediment. He also provides LSRP services for the firm’s clients.
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Bill also has extensive experience working with insurance carriers, their insureds and counsel on matters involving claim causation and origin, loss allocation and subrogation as well as remediation and regulatory compliance. He has assessed cleanup strategies, negotiated investigation and remediation agreements with regulators and developed technical proposals. He is a court-admitted expert and has provided testimony at trial.
Bill received a B.S. Degree in Environmental Science from the University of Delaware in 2000 and an M.S. in Environmental Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2008. He is a Licensed Site Remediation Professional in the State of New Jersey and has received government certificates in Emergency Management, Hazardous Materials Operations and First Responder activities.
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Matthew Martello, MS, CHMM, LSRP
Matt has 22 years of environmental consulting experience and has conducted or directed a broad range of complex remedial and compliance projects, site investigations, due diligence, forensic investigations and regulatory assessments. Over the course of his career, he has been responsible for assisting clients ranging from industrial manufacturers with global assets, to insurance companies with a wide range of pollution liabilities, to individual business owners with specific environmental needs. In his current position, Matt supports Trident’s various clients by helping them navigate routine operational compliance issues as well as their unanticipated environmental complications. By providing expert technical expertise in the design and application of effective and efficient remedial strategies, Matt has consistently provided his clients with the best possible option for reducing costs and/or eliminating long tail liabilities and never-ending regulatory compliance or oversight altogether.
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Phillip Ball
Phil directs many of the firm’s national services while also overseeing regional operations based out of Trident’s Indianapolis, Indiana office. He has 20 years of experience working for private clients and within the commercial and insurance industries. He has successfully resolved a broad range of pollution related remediation and/or compliance matters for both foreign and domestic clients. Phil’s regulatory compliance experience is comprised of work conducted in the U.S. as well as Canada and Mexico. His experience includes performing due diligence, site investigations, and remedial actions of various soil and groundwater contaminants, including petroleum and chlorinated solvents commonly associated with the dry-cleaning, automotive, and aerospace industries.
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In addition, Phil is licensed and/or certified in Indiana as an Asbestos Investigator and an Illegal Drug Lab Inspector. He is also licensed and/or certified as an Asbestos Investigator in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Kentucky. Phil received a B.S. degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Management from Ball State University in 2001.
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Kyle Weise
Kyle directs the firm’s Land Use services, and in that capacity he prepares and executes environmental reports, land use permits, as well as environmental site investigations and assessments. Kyle is an expert in the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Coastal Zone Management Rules, Freshwater Wetland Protection Act Rules and Flood Hazard Area Control Act Rules.
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Kenneth McGill, CPG, PG
Mr. McGill brings over 30 years of extensive technical and regulatory experience working on USEPA CERCLA, TSCA, NPDES, and RCRA projects, PADEP Act 2, and NJDEP ISRA/LSRP projects in New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. He has completed site investigation and remediation projects involving contaminated soil, groundwater, surface water and sediment and has experience investigating and remediating petroleum hydrocarbons, heavy metal and chlorinated solvent impacts at lagoons, landfills, defense facilities, industrial plants, commercial properties and Superfund sites. In addition, Ken has directed numerous hydrogeologic evaluations; soil, surface water, and groundwater sampling; site characterizations; extent of contamination studies; removal alternatives evaluation; and remediation at manufactured gas plants and other hazardous waste sites.
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Ken received his B.S. Degree in Geology from the Upsala College in New Jersey and has completed Graduate Studies in Hydrogeology from Wright State University in Ohio and Groundwater Modeling from Drexel University in Pennsylvania. He is a Licensed Professional Geologist (PG) in the State of Pennsylvania, the State of New York, and a Certified Professional Geologist (CPG) of the American Institute of Professional Geologists.
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Bruce Pelka, MS, CIH
As a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), Bruce currently directs the firm’s industrial hygiene services on an as needed basis. In that capacity, he directs and coordinates project personnel during the execution of the firm’s work within indoor environments, which includes providing senior technical oversight, developing/assessing investigation and remediation strategies, reviewing and editing client and regulatory reports, providing expert services, as well as reviewing field and lab analytical data. He also provides CIH oversight services for the firm’s clients.
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