John Mccorkle, Cep Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

For more than 22 years, John McCorkle has provided expert-level advice regarding contaminated land management in over twenty states, multiple countries, and on more than 300 sites. He specializes in review of contaminated sites for claims, litigation, and cost-recovery actions for clients in the Industry, Planning Development, Oil and Gas, and Advisory/Litigation sectors under state and federal law. His expertise includes site characterization, remediation and redevelopment estimates, and forensic cost analysis; development of innovative remedial strategies to quickly return properties to beneficial use; and evaluation of contaminant sources and costs based on likely time of releases to the environment. He has experience with approaches to age-date releases, regulatory compliance, contaminant fate-and-transport, "owner's engineering" services, emerging contaminants, site-specific and programmatic review of and optimization of remediation programs, and contamination- and spills sections of environmental permitting under NEPA. Mr. McCorkle is an expert on the Model Toxics Control Act (including being selected to the Ecology’s Stakeholder and Tribal Advisory Group on behalf of NAIOP, providing input on the ongoing revisions to MTCA), has contributed to and/or is cited in regulatory and technical guidance documents, including the Washington Department of Ecology’s Guidance for the Remediation of Petroleum Contaminated Sites and their Vapor Intrusion guidance as well as ASTM Standards.

Seattle, Washington

Mr. John McCorkle specializes in contaminated site characterization and remediation, claims and cost recovery defense/support, regulatory compliance, development of remedial strategies, project lifecycle forecasting and cost allocation, and review of and optimization of remediation programs. He has been asked to provide input on technical and policy issues ranging from sampling protocols to evaluation of clean-up levels by the Washington State Department of Ecology and the Pollution Liability Insurance Agency on multiple occasions. His project experience includes Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs), Health and Safety Plans, Corrective Action Plans, Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Studies, Independent Remedial Action Reports, Soil and Groundwater Remediation, Risk Assessments, Lifecycle Forecasting, Multi-Site Portfolio Management, and environmental claims and mediation support, including multiple redevelopment cases.The leading characteristic of John's approach to environmental and contamination challenges is aligning a sound, technically-defensible solution with his client's business needs, with an emphasis on providing his clients the tools they need to make economically-sustainable environmental stewardship a principle component of their businesses.

Greater Seattle Area

John led Cardno's Contaminated Land Management practice and P&L center in the Pacific Northwest, and provided expert technical input on environmental issues for many of Cardno's clients around the United States. He served as a Program Manager, overseeing Cardno's Pacific Northwest Portfolio for major oil and gas clients for six years and (concurrently) as a Project Manager for contaminated property cleanups throughout the United States for nine years.John began his stint at Cardno as a field technician for a predecessor company, Environmental Resolutions Inc. As his career advanced, he continued to keep his organization's client's goals in focus as he developed sound technical approaches to their environmental problems, taking on greater responsibilities and advancing his career in step with successful solutions implemented for his clients.

Seattle, Washington