Specialties
Liability Valuation; Pilot Study Design and Implementation; Alternative Construction Delivery Methods; Horizontal Directional Drilling Remediation Wells
Practice Areas
Contaminated Site Assessment and Cleanup
Education
MS, Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2011; BS, Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut, 2007
Registration
Professional Engineer: NC #39872, PA #95985, WV #26865
Client Service
Chris guides clients through an array of remediation technologies, from feasibility and design through construction management and operations. Applying technical acumen and a deep understanding of project delivery, including alternative contractual strategies like design/build, he leads diverse teams of engineers and project-control specialists to deliver innovative work for complex site-specific challenges. Many of his projects are large multidisciplinary efforts requiring critical-path schedules and substantial coordination of private, regulatory, and public stakeholders.
One of Chris’s recent accomplishments is a passive, gravity-powered flow-through cell design that removes more than 99 percent of PFAS from highly impacted streams at a manufacturing facility. This project was named the 2023 Outstanding Groundwater Remediation Project by the National Groundwater Association.
With experience using many in situ and ex situ remedial technologies, Chris helps clients deploy thermal remediation, air sparging/soil vapor extraction, in situ chemical oxidation, hydraulic containment, enhanced in situ bioremediation, horizontal directional drilling, soil mixing, and vapor intrusion mitigation. He also designs and implements solutions involving conventional civil engineering (including caps, slurry walls, soil excavation, and stormwater management) and monitored natural attenuation. His experience includes numerous self-performed pilot tests.
In addition, Chris provides environmental litigation support for his clients, including technical support to recover claims compensation related to environmental remediation expenditures from clients’ insurance carriers. On behalf of industrial clients, he provides environmental liability valuation estimates, including estimates of probability and cost for appropriate environmental remediation scenarios.
A skilled writer, communicator, and cost estimator, Chris leverages his broad remedial experience to inform site strategy and prepare feasibility studies for private and federal clients. His specialties also include innovative horizontal directional drilling (HDD) approaches for clients with active assets, such as oil and gas terminals and refineries and United States Air Force assembly buildings.
Contact Chris at CShores@geosyntec.com or +1-919-424-1836.
