Dan Walch, P.E. Email & Phone Number

Toledo, Ohio Area

Does your business have EPA regulatory compliance issues? Would you like to lower your compliance operating costs? Would you like to find out how? We can help you!!Experienced engineer providing industrial clients with solutions to difficult compliance challenges. Regulatory, equipment design, selection and modification to adapt to current requirements. Air pollution, water pollution, and hazardous waste management. Provide retrofit solutions to existing air systems, clarifiers, pretreatment, and biological treatment.From ongoing regulatory compliance support to evaluation of treatment and operation management, we can help your manufacturing business focus on being the best. Let us take care of the rest.

Monroe, Mi

Direct company activities on environmental equipment design practices. Provide customers with custom solutions to environmental compliance. Develop engineering consulting opportunities and solutions to clients.

Belleville, Mi

Provided project engineering management and design at RCRA hazardous waste landfill to maintain efficient operations and compliance with state and federal environmental and safety regulations.Designed and installed over 20 leachate extraction wells to maintain compliance levels to within one foot of liner bottom.Developed early warning monitoring technique to prevent leachate releases.Designed dual contained leachate forcemains and cleanouts.Maintained agency relations at local and state levels on a regular basis, including quarterly inspections on multiple closed landfills in southeast Michigan.

Ashland, Oregon

Provided support to area businesses on water and wastewater performance systems. Promoted water conservation techniques and "grey water" systems to drought restricted communities. Provided structural review of platform designs.

Toledo, Ohio Area

Grew opportunities in the Chemical, Power, and Alternative Energy Sectors.Developed multi-discipline client contact plans to increase new client business opportunities.Coordinated and responded to complex customer requests, resulting in increased sales and customer satisfaction.Negotiated and approved Master Engineering Agreements on major contracts.Managed full environmental permitting for new Volkswagen assembly plant in Tennessee. Permit-to-Install applications were prepared in record time, with requisite public review and environmental impact modeling allowing the company to receive a Permit-to-Install in 4 months, keeping the new auto plant on schedule.

Managed department of professionals providing air, water, wastewater, hazardous waste, and industrial hygiene services.Managed and prepared over one hundred air permit applications for Pfizer pharmaceutical company requiring Best Available Control Technologies and toxic air pollution control.Provided the City of Toledo with solutions for extending the life of the city's municipal landfill. Provided cost savings in the collection of municipal waste and solutions to increase recycling. Recommendations included instituting an economically viable recycling program to decrease waste volumes in the city's landfill and modernization of the city's garbage trucks from 3-man to 1-man crews. Recommendations received support from city management as well as employee unions.Successfully solved wastewater treatment operational issues for municipal clients, food processors, automotive plants, steel and plating operations, chemical facilities and petrochemical refineries.Successfully negotiated compliance programs with local, state, and federal regulatory agencies saving valuable time and money for clients.

Secured major new opportunity for the largest infrastructure project ever undertaken by the City of Toledo. Served as Project Manager for SSOE segment of the Phase I 5-year design program. Projects included design of new grit removal facilities, 25-MG equalization storage basin, and 192 MGD final effluent pumping station. Associated projects included design of new fiber optic backbone network communications system. Successfully managed design of $125 MM of capital improvements for structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, controls and instrumentation portion of each project. Project design and construction met Consent Decree deadlines established by the USEPA.Project Manager for numerous wastewater treatment projects involving physical, chemical and biological treatment. Project Manager for potable water treatment and storm water treatment/management. Projects ranged in size from 50 gpm to over 100 mgd.Successfully managed "fast track" site selection projects including negotiations with public and private parties. Provided site selection services for Hershey, W.R. Grace, Toyota, and others.

Manager Hazard Communication - Regulatory AffairsResponsible for corporate-wide program communicating hazards and proper precautions for company's products and manufacturing facilities.Managed preparation of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for company's products.Managed approval system for all chemicals used in the manufacturing operations.Implemented management system involving electronic scanning of over 10,000 MSDSs including individual entries tagged to each chemical, plant, and usage.Managed Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) compliance program.Manager Water Quality - Regulatory AffairsCorporate Environmental Water Manager for all of Owens-Corning manufacturing facilities.Negotiated wastewater discharge agreement for new glass fiber plant in Amarillo, Texas resulting in savings of over $500,000. Main issues included handling of dissolved solids contained in wastewater from reverse osmosis treatment of city water.Authored numerous papers on wastewater treatment, recycling and pollutant management.Awarded EPA Demonstration Grant for a zero industrial discharge project in South Carolina. Project required resolution of significant unexpected operational issues as a result of prolonged wastewater reuse and the impact on the facility's biological treatment plant. Federal EPA published the results of this effort.Provided successful pretreatment of landfill leachate using leachate recirculation and modified package treatment plant to provide high-rate biological treatment.Successfully negotiated compliance agreements with numerous regulatory agencies.Licenses

Master Of Science (M.S.), Civil Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Biology