His areas of project experience encompass sites with mixed chemical/radiological wastes, mining, petroleum, vapor intrusion, chemical manufacturing and manufactured gas plants (MGP), as well as sites impacted by PCBs and heavy metals (including firing ranges). He has also worked with clients and their counsel to develop risk-based strategies in support of litigation.

Mr. Peters’ specialized areas of risk assessment expertise include radiological risk and dose assessments, application of bioavailability assessments, risk-based assessments for petroleum, and developing risk-based site investigation and closure strategies that contribute to the cost-benefit analysis of remedial alternatives. He is also experienced with ecological risk assessments.

He has co-authored technical papers and publications on issues surrounding risk-based closures and integration with regulatory frameworks, including:

• “ARARs Are Worse Than ALARA,” presented at the American Nuclear Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, June 2009 (with E. Iorio, USACE).
• “Introduction to Risk-Based Cleanup Levels for Petroleum,” presented at the Maine DEP Brownfield Grantees Conference, Auburn, ME, June 2009.
• “How to Complicate a Uranium Cleanup – Add PCBs and Make It Superfund,” presented at the American Nuclear Society Fall Meeting, Reno, NV, November 2008 (with T. Majer, de maximis).
• “Joint Regulation of Radionuclides at Connecticut Yankee Haddam Neck Plant – Finding Common Ground and Lessons Learned,” presented at the Waste Management Symposia 2006, Tucson AZ, March 2006 (with N.S. Glucksberg, A.L. Fogg, and B. Couture).
• “Finding Harmony: Developing Cleanup Criteria to Address Multiagency Requirements,” by John J. Peters, Jeffery W. Lively, Nelson Walter. Published in Radwaste Solutions, July/August 2005, p.36-46.
• “Implementation of a Combined Risk- and Dose-Based End State Approach to Decommission a Depleted Uranium Site,” presented at the Waste Management Symposia 2005, Tucson, AZ, March 2005 (with J. Lively, MACTEC).
• “A Risk-Based Approach to Petroleum Cleanup,” presented to the Indiana Department of Environmental Protection, June 2003.
• “Mercury in Dental Office Wastes: Waste Characterization and Evaluation of Point-of-Discharge Treatment Technologies,” presented at the A&WMA International Specialty Conference on Mercury in the Environment, Minneapolis, MN, September 1999 (with M. Cameron, K. Kidd, L. Cohen, and C. Bering).
• “Application of In Vitro Bioaccessibility Test Data to a Public Health Risk Assessment of Arsenic Contaminated Soils,” presented at the Amherst Soils Conference, Amherst, MA, October 1998 (with T. Eschner, and T. Strunk).

Mr. Peters received his M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Tufts University, and his B.S. in Toxicology and Environmental Geology from Northeastern University.

About Haley & Aldrich
For over 50 years, Haley & Aldrich has been advising developers, major institutions and Fortune 100 clients on their geotechnical and environmental challenges. Established in 1957 with a focus on underground engineering and problem solving, today Haley & Aldrich has a resume of more than 25,000 engineering and environmental consulting projects and 20+ offices nationwide. Haley & Aldrich serves clients in the aerospace, automotive, education, healthcare, property development, manufacturing, utility, and heavy infrastructure markets in the United States and abroad.

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