SENIOR ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER
Houston, TX
EDUCATION
Rice University, Houston, Texas: MS Environmental Engineering, 1981
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York: BS Environmental Engineering, 1978
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Environmental Engineer, Bac-Ground Inc., Inc., Houston, Texas, 1985-Present.
Woodward-Clyde Consultants, Houston, Texas, Senior Staff Engineer, 1981-1985.
Rice University, Houston, Texas, Research Scientist, 1980-1981.
AFFILIATIONS
Registered Professional Engineer (TX 60781)
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
National Ground Water Association (NGWA Member and Auxiliary Editor:
1991-Present). See Editor's Note, Ground Water, Vol. 37, No. 1, Jan-Feb. 1999, p. 154
Minority Business Enterprise (MBE)
Texas Ground Water Association (TGWA)
Texas Hazardous Waste Management Society (THWMS)
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Mr. Baca has a background principally directed at the water quality aspects of environmental engineering projects. Such projects include extensive analytical and field studies. He has participated in investigative studies for industry, consultants, attorneys, and regulators. He has participated in ground water and/or contaminant studies for several large and small industries located in TX, and about 20 other states. He has also analyzed data from sites in Brazil, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and Mexico.
Typical tasks included source/origin and travel time analysis, site characterizations, estimates of contaminant transport, establishing responsibility (cost allocation), evaluation of aquifer clean-up alternatives, computer modeling, aquifer test analysis and design, permit applications, and report writing. Field activities include water, soil, and waste material sampling, surface and borehole geophysical surveys, and aquifer tests. Mr. Baca has also testified as an expert witness in several legal cases.
Mr. Baca also has experience in ground and surface water computer modeling. Such projects include, for example, regional ground-water supply studies for the City of Houston, Fort Bend County, and Brazoria County in Texas, and contaminant transport studies for EPA Superfund sites among others. Mr. Baca has also written a number of practical interactive ground-water models. Surface-water modeling includes: a detailed water quality study of Lake Houston, Houston, Texas, for the City of Houston Public Health Engineering Department. The Lake Houston project involved extensive field assessment, sampling and statistical data analysis.
