Solid Waste Engineering Services - Key Personnel

BEN DRAPER, PE ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT, GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Ben is an assistant vice president and geologist in the Greensboro office with 19 years of experience providing environmental and geological consulting services. His current duties include managing and directing projects and acting as a subject matter expert. Ben is currently responsible for projects in various stages of environmental compliance, site investigation, and/or remediation for clients in the manufacturing and solid waste industries. He has also represented the Greensboro office within WSP as the local Health, Safety, Security, and Environmental (HSSE) representative. PROJECT EXPERIENCE GFL Environmental, Environmental Compliance Monitoring, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee: Technical lead on environmental projects for sites located in North Carolina and South Carolina. Ben conducted routine environmental sampling of groundwater, surface water, methane, and leachate for compliance purposes and completed the associated reporting at several MSW and C&D landfills in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. Additionally, he provided drilling oversight of the installation of new monitoring wells at the MSW landfill in Georgia. Moore County, Landfill Environmental Compliance Monitoring, Aberdeen, North Carolina: Project manager for environmental compliance programs related to groundwater and LFG at the county’s closed MSW and active C&D landfills for 12 years. Ben provided performance monitoring oversight related to the groundwater corrective action. He completed multiple corrective action evaluation reports analyzing the MNA remedy. Ben provided oversight of the installation of passive gas vents and selected and provided limited oversight at the request of the county for the construction of a LFG trench. An ASD was successfully completed as it related to metal detections in groundwater and implemented a LFG remedy which involved the installation of passive LFG flares on vents associated with the LFG trench. Rowan County, Landfill Environmental Compliance Monitoring, Salisbury, North Carolina: Project director and technical lead on an environmental compliance monitoring project at the county’s landfill. Ben previously acted as the project manager for environmental compliance programs for the county’s MSW and C&D landfills for 12 years. As project manager, he also provided drilling oversight for the installation and abandonment of multiple monitoring wells. Ben completed an ASD related to anomalous VOCs detected in groundwater. Successfully negotiated the return of the facility to detection monitoring following two assessment monitoring events.

EDUCATION „ MSc, Geology, James Madison University LICENSES/REGISTRATIONS „ Professional Geologist: NC No. 2313 VA No. 2801001923 „ Project Management

Professional: No. 1876717 19 Years with WSP 21 Years of Experience