About Us

About Trident Environmental

Trident Environmental has an experienced staff of environmental scientists, biologists, geologists, engineers, Licensed Site Remediation Professionals, GIS professionals, planners and landscape architects. Trident routinely provides on-time and cost effective environmental consulting and remediation services from our East Coast and Mid-West regional offices. Since its establishment in 2000, Trident has completed several thousand projects throughout every region of the country.

Trident offers a full range of environmental consulting, remediation, and planning services that concentrate on the following areas:

Licensed Site Remediation Professional (LSRP)
Since its establishment in 2000, Tridents professionals have provided the following services on hundreds of projects
Regulated USTs (tanks containing gasoline, diesel fuel, waste oil, fuel oil for sale, and/or hazardous materials)
Our engineers can also complete Property Conditions Assessments (PCAs) in accordance with the ASTM standards.
Wetland permitting and mitigation
The staff at Trident Environmental is highly experienced in wetland restoration and mitigation.
Threatened & Endangered Species
Trident utilizes Geographical Information System (GIS) software and Global Position Systems (GPS) to accurately collect data, manage, analyze, and display all forms of geographically referenced information.
Child Care Center RAO Issuance
Due Dilligence
Pollution Claim Management
  • 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 services are vital to residential, commercial, and industrial planning and remediation

Our Leadership Team

Bill Schmitt - Director of Environmental Services

Bill Schmitt, MS, LSRP

Principle, Director of Environmental Services

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 has completed a wide range of site investigations and remediations involving contaminated soil, groundwater, surface water and air. He has demonstrated experience in investigating and remediating petroleum hydrocarbons, heavy metals and chlorinated solvent impacts at landfills, defense facilities, industrial plants, commercial properties and residential sites. In addition, Bill has directed numerous bioremediation and chemical oxidation remediations, has designed and managed a variety of groundwater plume delineations and vapor intrusion surveys, and has directed the cleanup of historic pesticide impacted sites.

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

Principle, Director of Environmental Engineering

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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As a Principal and senior operational leader, he directs Trident’s diversified professional staff and its varied clients in developing and executing successful strategies for assessing and/or remediating a wide range of property conditions. He has demonstrated experience all over North America in investigating and remediating soil, groundwater and indoor air impacts involving chlorinated solvents, lead, mold, dioxins, PCBs, heavy metals including hexavalent chromium and mercury, methamphetamines, asbestos and petroleum hydrocarbons. Matt received a B.S. degree in Geo-Environmental Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 1998 and an M.S. degree in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering from Villanova University in 2009. He is also a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) and a New Jersey Licensed Site Remediation Professional (LSRP).

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Phillip Ball

Director of National Services

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 - Director of Land Use Services

Kyle Weise

Director of Land Use Services

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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Kyle has prepared and received approval for hundreds of applications submitted to the NJDEP, Pinelands Commission and United States Army Corps of Engineers for Freshwater Wetlands, CAFRA, Waterfront Development, Tidelands and Flood Hazard. He also prepares Environmental Impact Statements (E.I.S.) for local Township Approval and has provided expert testimony to municipal boards and environmental commissions. Kyle is an experienced wetlands scientist who has performed numerous wetland delineations and has designed and received regulatory approval for wetland mitigation sites and banks throughout New Jersey. Kyle has conducted numerous threatened/endangered species surveys for Bog Turtles, Northern Pine Snakes, Barred Owls, Red Shouldered Hawks and Indiana Bats in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. These activities include direct visual surveys as well as the implementation of various trapping methods in a variety of habitats and radio-telemetry projects. Additionally, Kyle is well versed in geographical information systems (GIS), habitat assessments, ecological evaluations, wildlife surveys, laboratory testing and analysis, soil sampling and characterization, wetland delineation and mitigation, and river, pond and sediment sampling. Kyle received a B.S. Degree in Environmental Science from the Western New England College in 2002.

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Kenneth McGill, CPG, PG

Director of Geologic Services

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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As a senior hydrogeologist and Client account project manager, Ken has managed and conducted hydrogeologic investigations, aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) assessments, groundwater studies, hazardous waste site investigations and feasibility studies, removal and remediation projects, and subsurface investigation drilling programs. 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 fact and expert testimony at trial.

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

Director of Industrial Hygienic Services

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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Concurrently with his work at Trident, Bruce serves as the senior industrial hygienist and technical authority for the US Air Force Medical Group at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, a position he has held since 2008.  He has worked for the Department of Defense as an industrial hygienist in both the Army and Navy with no break in service since 1984, where he routinely performs indoor air quality surveys for microbiological (mold) identification and sampling as well as for a wide variety of physical and chemical stressors serving active duty as well as government employees. With over 30 years of experience in industrial hygiene and occupational safety and health and as a member of the American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH) in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene, he is considered the technical expert for occupational safety and health issues at the Joint Base. Bruce received a B.S. degree in Biology from Glassboro State College in 1975 and an M.S. degree in Environmental Health from East Tennessee State University in 1983.

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We recently engaged Trident for Bank due-diligence on two complicated projects. Trident responded with solutions, not open-ended questions. They tackled all environmental issues with ease, and our Bank now has two new clients.- Andrew M., Banking Professional