Kaitlyn Rhonehouse, PE
Kaitlyn Rhonehouse is a Senior Principal Engineer based in North Carolina with more than 20 years of experience focused on the assessment and remediation of contaminated properties, property transaction environmental due diligence, compliance and permitting evaluations, valuation of environmental liability, brownfields negotiations and redevelopment, and vapor intrusion assessment and mitigation. Kaitlyn is Senior Services Director for Environmental Management, Redevelopment, and Specialized Services for our South Atlantic Operations.
Specialties
Environmental Due Diligence; Contamination; Assessment and Remediation; Remediation Design; Vapor Intrusion Assessment and Mitigation; Brownfields Redevelopment
Practice Areas
Contaminated Site Assessment and Cleanup
Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, BS, Environmental Engineering, 2005
Registration
Professional Engineer: Florida #72260, North Carolina #043548, South Carolina #41538, Virginia #402058329
Client Service
A senior leader in Geosyntec’s Environmental Management practice group, Kaitlyn has led thousands of environmental due diligence projects for property transactions in many areas of the United States. She offers expertise in evaluating quantitative and qualitative risk factors associated with impaired properties. Kaitlyn assists residential, commercial, industrial, and attorney clients with cost-to-cure estimates, establishment of environmental escrows and financial reserves, and redevelopment planning for known or perceived contamination. She has experience with complex regulatory negotiations and has helped potentially responsible parties (PRPs) and prospective property owners and developers reduce or eliminate their liability through risk assessments, brownfields agreements, risk-based closure strategies, and the development and implementation of cost-effective remedial alternatives. Kaitlyn also assists clients with multimedia compliance evaluations and environmental permitting review and assistance under the CAA, CWA and NPDES, RCRA, Universal Waste, and SPCC.
During her career, Kaitlyn has led numerous site investigations involving the assessment and remediation of soil, groundwater, sediment, surface water, soil vapor, indoor air, and coal combustion residuals. She has employed specialized field assessment techniques such as the use of membrane interphase probe logging, modified active gas sampling techniques, quantitative passive samplers, and high purge volume subslab soil gas sampling in large buildings. She has designed and overseen the implementation of remedial technologies such as enhanced in situ bioremediation, soil vapor extraction, air sparging, in situ chemical oxidation, hydraulic control pump and treat, phytotechnology, soil excavation, and capping.
Kaitlyn’s work often includes the evaluation and/or mitigation of vapor intrusion of contaminated vapors into occupied spaces associated with chlorinated solvent or petroleum-impacted soil, groundwater, or landfill gases. She frequently designs and oversees vapor intrusion assessments which have included subslab soil gas and indoor air sampling. Kaitlyn is the Engineer of Record for vapor intrusion mitigation systems installed in multifamily, retail, educational, and warehouse buildings throughout the United States.
Contact Kaitlyn at KRhonehouse@Geosyntec.com or +1-910-372-6402.
