Carl A. Seward - Mining Engineer
12526 Leatherleaf Drive, Tampa, FL 33626 USA
Tel:(813) 855-9852 

e-mail: cseward@art-engineering.com

 

 

 

Mr. Carl Seward holds the position of President and Director of Operations of ART Engineering, LLC.  In this position, he is responsible for directing all project activities from treatability studies to design management, plant fabrication, project startup and operations.

Previously, Mr. Seward was Director of Operations for Surbec-ART, and before that, Vice-President of Operations with the ART Division of ARCADIS Geraghty & Miller, Inc., (formerly Alternative Remedial Technologies Inc.) and he was responsible for all soil washing and remediation operations.

Mr. Seward has over 25 years of diversified environmental remediation, construction management and mining engineering experience.  Fifteen years of this experience was gained in mining engineering, mine permitting, new-mine construction, mine startup and operation of gold mines in Utah, Montana and South Dakota.  His engineering experience in mining includes open pit mine design and process plant layout, construction and operations.  Mr. Seward’s mining operational experiences include the positions of: staff engineer, mine shift foreman, mine superintendent and mine manager.  Mr. Seward is also experienced in the remediation of contaminated soils and groundwater.  His relevant project experience includes:

Environmental Plant Design, Plant Construction, Soil Remediation, Soil Washing (1992 – Present)

AG Ambiental - Lezo Project - Spain

Directed engineering and design of hydrocarbon soil washing plant for AG Ambiental, Madrid, Spain. Responsible for plant inspections, plant start-up commissioning and ongoing project support.

 

Vineland Chemical Company Superfund Site, Vineland, New Jersey

Directed the engineering and designing of a processing plant to remove Arsenic from approximately 350,000 tons of contaminated soils.  Supervised and inspected the fabrication of key components of the plant.  Managed the operators’ training and the plant startup and commissioning.

 

Dupont Lordship Point, Bridgeport, Connecticut

Director of Operations for the remediation of 60,000 tons of lead shot and target fragment contaminated soils.  Managed the design, fabrication, mobilization to site, plant construction and operations during the “validation run”, prior to the full-scale operations.  Based on the data from the “validation run”, Mr. Seward recommended modifications to the process plant for the full-scale operations.

 

DaimlerChrysler Springfield Superfund Site, Davisburg, Michigan

Director of Operations for the remediation of 13,300 tons of PCB contaminated soils.  Responsible for work plan production and implementation.  Mr. Seward also managed the plant design, fabrication, direction of site activities and attainment of the cleanup criteria within the client’s specified time frame and budget.

 

Conor Pacific Environmental Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Operations Director for soil washing/slurry preparation operations for pre-treatment and feedstock preparation for the processing of 40,000 tons of PAH contaminated soils.

 

RMI Titanium Company, Ashtabula, Ohio

Construction Manager for remediation of low-level radioactive waste contaminated soils, for the RMI Titanium Company, U.S. Department of Energy site in Ashtabula, Ohio.  The duties included the design management of the full-scale soil washing plant.

 

Dade County Aviation Department, Miami, Florida

Site Operations Manager for the remediation of PAH contaminated soils for the Date County Aviation Authority at Opa Locka Airport, Miami, Florida.  Responsible for plant design, equipment selection, procurement, startup and site operations.

 

The Monsanto Company, Everett, Massachusetts

Project Manager for the soil washing at the Brownfields site.  Created an innovative treatment train, incorporating units for treatment of the contaminated fines and oversize.  Responsible for the plant configuration and refurbishing, plant assembly, startup and site operations.

 

City of Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Site Operations Manager for a fixed-facility soil washing plant.  Responsible for the construction of the plant inside a building, startup, site operations and submittal of a report to the city.

 

The Hanford Site, Richland, Washington

Operations Manager for soil washing of Uranium-contaminated soils.  The responsibilities included management of all site mobilization, operations, decontamination and demobilization.

 

King of Prussia Superfund Site, Winslow, New Jersey

Site Operations Manager for the first full-scale implementation of soil washing in the U.S.  Responsibilities included directing the plant engineering and design, equipment selection, plant fabrication, plant assembly, commissioning and startup and operations management.  Implemented the design and managed groundwater cleanup plant.

(Gold) Mine Engineering, Construction and Operations, 1978-1992

Brohm Mining Corporation

Mine Manager, Mine Superintendent and Construction Manager of the Gilt Edge Gold Mine, Deadwood, South Dakota, owned by Brohm Mining Corporation. 

Responsible for engineering, construction, startup and operations management of this $22 million Cyanide-heap-leach project.

 

Montana Mining and Timber

Operations Manager of the Gold Creek Mine, owned by Montana Mining and Timber, Anaconda, Montana.  Responsible for the engineering and construction management of this $5 million placer-mine project.

 

Getty Oil Company

Mine Shift Foreman and Construction Supervisor for the engineering, construction, startup and operations of the $80 million carbon-in pulp Mercur Gold Mine, owned by Getty Oil Company, Minerals Division in Salt Lake City, Utah.

 

Utah International

Mining Engineer for coal mining at the Navaho Mine in Farmington, New Mexico.

 

 

Expert Services

 

           Consulting Engineer providing litigation support for Conor Pacific Environmental Technologies, Inc., to evaluate engineering and performance at the Gould Site remediation project in Portland, Oregon.  The client won the $3.5 M arbitration.

 

           Consulting services for HLA Environmental Services of Michigan, Inc., to evaluate the failure of a full-scale ex-situ remediation system at the Buckeye Oil Field Project, Michigan.

 

           Consulting Engineer for the Gould Site PRP Group for evaluation of design flaws and failed operations of the Gould Battery Superfund Site remediation project in Portland, Oregon.  Responsibilities included review and analysis of the technical design and design basis for a lead recycling/soil separation system, including water treatment circuits and assistance in the development of litigation strategies.  This case resulted in a $10 M settlement in favor of the Gould Site PRP Group.

 

 

Carl Seward

President and

Director of Operations

ART Engineering, LLC

Tampa, Florida

www.art-engineering.com

 

 

Education

B.S. Mining Engineering,

Montana College of Mineral

Science and Technology,

Butte, Montana, 1978

 

Professional

Registrations/Training

E.I.T. Montana

Florida State Pollutant

Storage Contractor’s License

Radiological Worker Level II

Training

OSHA CFR 1910.120 Eight-Hour Site Supervisor Training

 

Professional Associations

American Institute of Mining Engineers

 

Military Service

Vietnam Veteran: 1968-1971