Geohazards Identification and Mitigation

What are geohazards and how can you avoid substantial impacts or delays to your projects because of them?
Geohazards are environmental and geological conditions that include but are not limited to landslides, voids, groundwater seeps, slips, and sinkholes. Each of these features could lead to damage or delays. Find out how scientists, geologists, geophysicists, and geotechnical engineers are using their valuable experience in geohazard identification, state and federal regulatory compliance, and mitigation/remediation to ensure your projects run smoothly and help you avoid/mitigate risk to property, the environment, and human life.

Session Description
By participating in this session, you will gain a better understanding of the potential risks geohazards pose to your projects, as well as how to navigate those risks. You will learn how and where geohazards can impact your project, when to take action, and various ways to manage or avoid these risks. This webinar will address upfront geohazard identification and planning, karst evaluations and sinkhole mitigation/monitoring, historical mining impacts and spoils mitigation, landslide and slope design/reconstruction, hydrogeological influence assessments and remediation, geohazard mitigation, and horizontal directional drilling (HDD) inadvertent return monitoring and geotechnical considerations.

Learning Objectives

• Understand what geohazards are and how they can impact your project.
• Learn about state and federal influences and issues that projects face in the current regulatory environment.
• Discover the localized geohazards in various states and tools of the trade to identify them.
• Outline related mitigation efforts.

Presenters

David Mostoller, PG, Senior Project Manager, RETTEW
Mr. Mostoller has close to 20 years of experience in groundwater development, analysis, permitting, and natural gas consulting in various shale plays. He is an expert liaison to regulatory agencies, and supports natural gas exploration and midstream pipeline operations through managing all aspects of permitting, providing technical oversight of water sourcing, and administering linear permitting projects.

Felicia Bechtel, MSc, PG, Director of Geophysics, RETTEW
Ms. Bechtel has almost 30 years of experience in surface, marine, and borehole geophysics consulting. Her engineering and environmental expertise has been applied to work in the energy, local, state, federal, commercial, and industrial markets. Before coming to RETTEW, she was President of Enviroscan for 25 years, designing custom geophysical surveys for a wide variety of clients/markets, conducting technical reviews, and managing logistics for thousands of projects using a variety of geophysical equipment systems. She is now responsible for directing the daily operations and expansion of RETTEW’s Geophysics group.

Christopher Brixius, PG, Geologist, RETTEW
Mr. Brixius has 20 years of experience in geotechnical engineering and environmental consulting. He has encountered various geohazards through projects involving horizontal directional drilling operations, sinkhole investigations and remediations, construction monitoring and inspection, Phase I and II ESAs, UST removal, and other environmental remediation tasks.

PDH Credits
This webinar may qualify for 1.0 professional development hour (PDH) towards your continuing education for professional licensure. Because requirements vary greatly for different states and licenses, please check applicable guidelines and use your best judgement to determine if this webinar qualifies. If you’re interested in receiving a certificate for this webinar, please include that request in your RSVP.

How to Register and Join
To foster our core values of Relationships and Stewardship with our clients, RETTEW is providing this online webinar free of charge. The webinar is open to your entire staff. If you can’t attend on August 6, please contact Jeremy Burger, Senior Program Manager, at [email protected] to discuss other options for educating your staff on this topic. 

RSVP
Email [email protected] and include the following information:

1. Company name
2. Names and email addresses of all attendees
3. Which attendees, if any, plan to use this webinar for PDH credit.