Geo-Literal Qualifications and Experience

Bill Girolamo, the founder and president of Geo-Literal, Inc., has more than 25 years of experience as a geologist and environmental consultant with a large network of associates and colleagues he can call on to help meet his customer's needs.

Areas of Expertise

• Health and Safety - our most important consideration
• Project Management
• Senior Technical Oversight
• Phase I and II Assessments : Oil Field Waste, Petroleum Contamination, Chlorinated Contamination, Heavy Metal Contamination
• Storage Tank Compliance and Closure
• Regulatory Compliance Audits
• Service Station Upgrades
• Logging and Interpretation of Sediment and Bedrock
• Evaluation of Remedial System Design Alternatives
• Design and Installation of Soil and Groundwater Remedial Systems
• Remediation System O&M
• Groundwater Monitoring
• Agency Negotiation to Streamline Site Closure
• USEPA Triad Approach
• Third-Party Review
• California UST Reimbursement Fund Accounts
• State Geotracker Accounts
• Report Preparation, Editing and Review
• Preparation of Politically Sensitive Documents

Project Highlights

• Technical oversight and agency interaction in remediation of 2-million gallon jet fuel release at a major airport; site cleanup was complicated by a co-mingled chlorinated hydrocarbon plume.
• Design, permitting, installation and O&M of soil and groundwater remediation systems at gas stations and industrial facilities in Northern and Southern California; system decommissioning upon achieving closure.
• Technical oversight of large Brownfields site for a city in Southern California that involved assessment and remediation of a free product gasoline plume several city blocks in size.
• Logging, geologic interpretation, senior technical review, and health & safety oversight of deep open-core wells in bedrock on a large-scale chlorinated plume migration study for a major aerospace corporation.
• Supervision of drilling, well installation, groundwater monitoring, interpretation of hydrogeology and contaminant characteristics, and management of field crews at power plants throughout California.
• Restructuring and management of a field services dept. in a large environmental consultancy; regional coordination of field services; man-aged 2,000-well monitoring program with a major oil company.
• Developed training programs for field techs, project managers and scientists; developed and taught project management training in the US and Australia.
• International experience (Australia):
  - Assessed a chlorinated hydrocarbon plume that had migrated off site from an industrial complex through volcanic rock into a residential area and wetlands; developed contaminant migration model to develop a conceptual groundwater containment system; was a benchmark project for Victoria, Australia EPA.
  - Conducted environmental facilities audit at the largest through-put petroleum terminal in the Southern Hemisphere.
  - Directed assessment and remediation projects throughout Victoria.