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Vincent W. Uhl – Professional Hydrogeologist

Mr. Uhl began his career in water supply development and management in Central India where he initiated a groundwater development project for the Lutheran Church at the age of 25. This project evolved into an organization with over 50 employees and provided a full-service approach to water supply development from the siting of production wells utilizing geophysics and remote sensing applications to well repairs and drinking water quality evaluation. The project installed over 3,000 wells in the hard rock regions of central and southern India and provided a training ground for other projects in the region.

Since that time, Mr. Uhl has specialized in the exploration, development, protection, and management of water resources for public, industrial, and agricultural uses and in the investigation and remediation of soil, groundwater, and surface water contamination incidence. He has worked with many public and private water utilities in the northeast US and internationally on groundwater resource development and management projects.

At Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., an international civil engineering firm, he managed the firm’s Groundwater Group. In 1984, he opened and managed a New Jersey office for Geraghty & Miller, Inc., a highly respected groundwater consulting firm. In 1991, he started his own consulting practice that provides water and environmental consulting to industry, municipalities, international governments, consulting firms, and legal clients on all projects with water and/or environmental components. He has worked extensively in the United States, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and the Philippines on long- and short-term assignments.

Certified Professional Geologist - AIPG No. 6519

Certified Professional Hydrogeologist - AIH No. 389

M.S. Hydrogeology, University of Arizona, 1976

M.S. Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, 1970

B.S.  Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 1966

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Ashish Daw – Professional Hydrogeologist

Mr. Daw is a geoscientist with a diverse portfolio of experience in domestic and international groundwater supply projects. Mr. Daw began his career as a hydrogeologist with the Netherlands Assisted Project Office in Southern India where he participated in setting up a framework for distributing high quality groundwater. His work at SUNY Buffalo focused on the integration of GIS and remote sensing technologies with hydrogeology and development of analytical element groundwater modeling toolsets for integration into the ESRI ArcGIS platform.

Mr. Daw has managed numerous domestic and international water supply and environmental projects. His work in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and neighboring states has included spring resources evaluations, water supply development and management, and a wide range of environmental evaluation and protection work. He has extensive experience in installation, testing, and maintenance of small- to large-capacity production wells in bedrock and unconsolidated aquifer settings. In the past five years, Mr. Daw has been involved with preparing groundwater supply master plans for groundwater supply utilities in northern New Jersey. He well versed in the remote sensing applications to siting test well drilling locations.

For Municipal Water Departments and Public and Private Utilities in New Jersey and New York, Mr. Daw has managed many new production well installations, well replacements, and well redevelopment projects, which included aquifer testing, and water allocation permitting. For Townships in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Mr. Daw has been involved with preparing ordinances for groundwater use and worked with private clients to comply with established township ordinances on groundwater use.

Certified Professional Geologist

Certified Professional Hydrogeologist - AIH No. 26-HGW-05022

40-Hour OSHA HAZWOPER Certification

Graduate Studies in Hydrogeology, SUNY Buffalo

M.Sc. Applied Geology, Anna University, Chennai, India

B.Sc. Geology, Fergusson College, University of Pune, Pune, India

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Kidist H. Tadesse – Hydrogeologist

Ms. Tadesse is an experienced Hydrogeologist in both international and domestic water supply projects. She has over a decade of experience in hydrogeological investigations and water supply development across municipal, industrial, and agricultural projects. Ms. Tadesse is well versed in aquifer testing, well design, drilling oversight, well redevelopment, specific capacity testing, water quality monitoring, and environmental impact assessment.

She is skilled at supporting multidisciplinary teams in planning and executing field sampling programs, managing environmental data, and conducting geological and water resource evaluations, groundwater-surface water interaction, and managed aquifer recharge. Ms. Tadesse is experienced in technical documentation, data management, stakeholder engagement, and regulatory compliance and project delivery.

She is currently supporting multiple water supply initiatives across New Jersey townships and municipalities including well redevelopment, aquifer testing, and new well installation in both bedrock and glacial deposit aquifer systems. She provides field oversight, technical analysis, and regulatory compliance support, ensuring projects meet state and local standards.

Ph.D. Geological Engineering (Hydrogeology), Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

M.Sc. Hydrogeology, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopa

B.Sc. Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

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Jaclyn A. Baron – Chemical and Water Resources Engineer

Ms. Baron has 30 years experience in industry and consulting on water resource and environmental projects. Her clients include private corporations, commercial entities, legal firms, municipal entities, and insurers. She has been the administrative manager and technical report writer for a variety of extended projects involving groundwater components. She has been the principal peer reviewer of her firm’s environmental and hydrogeologic reports, and has lent her judgment and expertise to many technical documents prepared for litigation and cost negotiation purposes.

In her expansive site assessment, investigation and cleanup practice, she has addressed many different sites with typical and unique contaminant transport characteristics including natural gas pipeline compressor stations, electronics plants, an aluminum refinery, dry cleaners, hazardous waste landfills and treatment facilities, solid waste landfills, residential and commercial fuel oil tanks, bus company facilities, gasoline stations, and historical farmsteads.  In addition to contributing her knowledge regarding the water quality aspects of these projects, she has directed their technical and administrative implementation under federal and state superfund programs, specific state rules for site assessments, property transfer circumstances, and voluntary cleanups.  She has also participated in a range of watershed studies and water supply projects.       

Internationally, Ms. Baron was the principal technical editor of the Final Report for a two-year groundwater exploration project performed for the government in northwest Botswana with sections prepared by the various members of a multi-disciplinary team including academics, consultants and practitioners in specialized technical fields including remote sensing, test well drilling, structural geology, surface water hydrology and well field modeling.  She subsequently prepared the water quality monitoring parts of a Management Plan for several of the well fields planned as a result of this project. 

M.S. Water Resources Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, 1982

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science, New York, 1975

Bronx High School of Science

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Jonathon Wells – Hydrogeologist

In the mid-1990’s, Mr. Wells worked in the Pacific Northwest for Woodward-Clyde Consultants (WCC). He worked for the Portland Water Bureau in water supply management of a 90 million gallon per day emergency well field near the Columbia River. As part of well field protection work, he ran groundwater flow model simulations on a seven-layer MODFLOW computer model designed to optimize pumping scenarios that would prevent migration of a contaminant plume and delineate the wellhead protection areas.

Mr. Wells continued his work as a geologist and hydrogeologist working in environmental consulting in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for WCC and ARCADIS Geraghty & Miller. He assessed the impact of returning salt hay farms to open estuary on groundwater levels, septic systems, and water wells along Delaware Bay for the re-permitting of a power plant for PSE&G.

FSince 2013, Mr. Wells has worked with UHL & Associates in New Jersey and Pennsylvania on numerous groundwater management projects including production well condition investigation, drilling, well installation, development, and testing oversite, municipal groundwater use, recharge, water budget and sustainability work, revisions to town water well ordinance, and investigate and identify surface water to groundwater recharge locations.

Certified Professional Geologist -- Pennsylvania No. 5271; New York No. 1143

MA Geology, Boston University, 1995

BS Earth Science (Geology Concentration), University of Massachusetts/Boston, 1988

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