Lord Associates is a leading Northeast full service environmental business specializing in solving environmental problems associated with real property.

We are an experienced group of scientists, hydrogeologists, geochemists, engineers, and licensed site professionals (LSPs) who strive to find practical and economic solutions to environmental problems. Regardless of the project difficulty we have the resources available to achieve the desired results.

Henry J. Lord began independent consulting in 1984 for a select group of clients who were either trying to enter the environmental market or needed strategic planning assistance to address on-going environmental issues. As the business evolved, staff was added and led to the formation of the current corporate structure formed in 1992.

Lord Associates has its offices in Norwood, Massachusetts, about 15 miles west of downtown Boston. Our business location allows us easy access to all of New England. We can virtually be on any site in the geographic region within 3 hours of contact. This provides you, the customer, with a close hands-on environmental management team.

Principals Henry J. Lord and Ralph J. Tella established their highly respected reputations while working with some of the nation's largest and most progressive environmental firms. Their combined experiences of over 50 years encompass a wide range of hazardous waste site investigations, cleanups, and closures in various geologic and geographic settings throughout the U.S. and other countries.

The additional members of the Lord team possess cross functional skills that can be combined and assigned as needed to address any site situation.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILES

Henry J. Lord

Mr. Lord has thirty years of experience in various areas of soil and ground water studies, hazardous waste investigations, and the characterization, design and implementation of corrective actions at contaminated sites. Previous positions have been with several major international consulting firms including projects at over 300 sites in 20 different states, Canada and Puerto Rico.

As founder and co-owner of two successful environmental companies, responsibilities have included overall corporate, financial and staff management. Prior to forming Lord Associates, Inc., Mr. Lord has held key management positions with two major environmental consulting and service companies during their start-up period.

Ralph J. Tella, L.S.P., C.H.M.M.

Mr. Tella has a broad background of over twenty-five years of experience in environmental consulting including: hazardous waste site investigations; property transfer assessments; quantitative risk assessments; fate and transport modeling; remedial action; laboratory analysis; quality control; and health and safety training. He has been the Licensed Site Professional (LSP-of-Record) for numerous private industrial hazardous waste sites since 1993. He has directed hundreds of site assessments and remedial projects since 1986. These projects have included coordination and negotiations with legal counsel, lending institutions, and state agencies.

Mr. Tella also served as project manager on complex technical issues including risk assessments and innovative remedial technologies. He has characterized risk at sites contaminated with volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds, heavy metals, PCBs and cyanide. Many of these sites were classified as "priority disposal sites" in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He has been a pioneer in the development of models to describe the partitioning of contamination from groundwater and soil-to-soil gas and indoor air, and implementing programs for accelerated bioremediation of chlorinated hydrocarbons.

Mr. Tella participated in the development of Massachusetts' regulations and guidance as an appointed Associate Member of the Superfund Advisory Committee in the late 1980's. He has also been a member of numerous work groups including; The Contaminant Specific-Coal Gas Subcommittee, LSPA Regulations Committee, and the Indoor Air Work Group. In Rhode Island, Mr. Tella participated in the review and development of the Remedial Regulations of 1996. Mr. Tella is a master-level Certified Hazardous Materials Manager and a Licensed Site Professional (LSP) in Massachusetts.

Oliver P. Leek

As a Project Manager with ten years of experience in the environmental sciences and with regulatory compliance, Mr. Leek has performed multiple subsurface investigations including ground penetrating radar survey oversight, drilling oversight, soil and groundwater sampling, groundwater elevation surveying, and test pitting in Massachusetts and in other jurisdictions throughout the United States (including AZ, AR, CA, GA, MI, RI, SC, WA).

Mr. Leek has performed various remediation projects including soil excavation, groundwater treatment, and chemical oxidation using hydrogen peroxide. Executed the installation and operation and maintenance of various remedial systems including soil vapor extraction systems, oil/water separators with subsequent granular activated carbon treatment, and various forms of light non-aqueous phase liquid recovery. Prepared National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) exclusion applications to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), performed wastewater sampling, and prepared associated reports.

Mr. Leek has directed various underground storage tank removals under 527 CMR 9.000 and has conducted associated remediation, and prepared associated reports. Where applicable, prepared 21J reimbursement submittals to the State of Massachusetts on behalf of various clients.

Mr. Leek has prepared various Massachusetts Contingency Plan (MCP) reports including Immediate Response Action reports, Release Abatement Measure reports, Phase I through Phase V reports, Tier Classification, Limited Removal Action reports, Activity and Use Limitations, and various classes of Response Action Outcome reports. Additionally, Mr. Leek has prepared various Phase I Environmental Site Assessments on commercial properties nationwide.