William R. Picard, AICP                                    President

William R. Picard is a Land Use and Environmental Planner and is the majority owner and Principal-in-Charge of Advanced Environmental Solutions, Inc. (AES). He has over twenty-five years of environmental project experience in the restoration of commercial and industrial property.  As the President, Mr. Picard is responsible for overall operations of AES. 

Mr. Picard has acquired an extensive range of experiences, having performed over 20 federally funded environmental projects nationwide for the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), National Guard Bureau (NGB), US Veterans Administration (VA) and US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE); as well as numerous State and privately funded projects throughout New England and New York.  His past project experiences with AES include a targeted Brownfield assessment for the USEPA at a defunct fuel station in Greenfield, MA; multiple environmental assessments and area reuse evaluation for property at the Hanscom AFB in Concord, MA; a Comprehensive Landfill Assessment and Capping for the VA facility in Northampton, MA; and a comprehensive lead and asbestos survey of the VA facility in White River Junction, VT.

Furthermore, over his career in the environmental industry, Mr. Picard has:

• Managed the maintenance and environmental restoration of systems for twenty-two medical office buildings, two hospitals and three nursing homes.
• Founded Lightning Environmental Recovery Systems, Inc., a P-2 firm that served the needs of over twenty hospitals in developing waste management and minimization programs for municipal solid waste, hazardous waste and bio-hazardous waste, and the elimination of use of mercury products and instruments.
• Coordinated one of the largest Brownfields projects in MA, the Worcester Medical Center. The site encompasses twenty-seven acres in downtown Worcester, and cost $7.2 million to complete.  The site currently hosts the Worcester Medical Center, a $215+ million hospital and medical office building.

Michael P. Bingham, PG, LSP, LEP     Technical Director

Mr. Michael P. Bingham is currently the Technical Director for AES with over 20 years of environmental project management experience with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the private consulting sector.  He has an advanced degree in geology, considerable continuing education training to maintain several professional license, experience in geology and hydrogeology, and has managed a wide range of environmental investigations and remediation projects.

Mr. Bingham has completed assessment and remedial projects in every New England State.  He has managed projects consisting of residential fuel oil releases, gasoline releases at service stations, petroleum bulk distribution terminals, gasoline tanker truck spills, Superfund facilities in two states, and industrial releases of volatile organic compounds, metals and PCBs.  Mr. Bingham has designed remediation systems and conducted remedial activities for many of the projects brought to regulatory closure.

Mr. Bingham has experience with bedrock and surficial hydrogeologic investigations, fracture trace analysis, soil vapor extraction pilot tests (with tracer gas), aquifer tests, modeling contaminant transport.  He has detailed knowledge of the surficial geology of New England, geology of the western U.S., petroleum geology, glacial marine geology, and geophysics.

Some highlights of Mr. Bingham’s specific environmental experience include the following:

• Provided expert testimony on a court case involving migration pathways of VOCs in soil and groundwater at a dry cleaning facility in central Massachusetts. 
• Provided expert testimony for a service station on Cape Cod involving multiple aquifers and aquitards which were contaminated by faulty monitoring well installation techniques.
• Project manager and LSP for the design and installation of a remediation system to treat chlorinated solvents in soil and groundwater at a Tier 1A Brownfield site in Worcester, Massachusetts.  The Medical City Center project was completed with a Class A-3 Response Action Outcome, approved by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.
• Directed emergency response actions at a 10,000 gallon gasoline tanker spill into a wetland less than 500 feet from a municipal water supply well.   Coordinated response actions with EPA, MADEP, local town officials.  Water supply wells were not impacted.