Environmental Services Division

This division is responsible for managing and implementing:

• Recycling programs as mandated by the County and the State, and for monitoring the Franchise Agreement for Solid Waste and Yard Waste Collection and Disposal Services.
• The division is also responsible for environmental site assessments for City-owned property, the Clean Water Program, the Watershed Improvement Program, and the Clean Creek Campaign including restoration projects on public property and adopt-a-creek volunteer programs.
• The energy conservation and efficiency program.
• The Environmental Services Division also works on a wide range of environmental policy issues including air quality, water quality, and dioxin elimination.
• Click on any of the links above or to the left to learn more about the services that we provide.

Accomplishments - Fiscal Year 2003-2004:

Environmental Protection & Compliance

• Began implementing a $460,000, grant-funded program to identify the sources and perform cleanup of PCB-contaminated sediments in the Ettie Street pump station watershed.
  Received $400,000 in EPA brownfields grants to conduct hazardous materials investigations and cleanup in the Uptown project area.
• Obtained environmental regulatory clearance for construction of four new Habitat for Humanity homes at the corner of Fruitvale and Davis, the former site of a gas station with leaking tanks.
• Helped negotiate and oversee a regulator-approved, innovative risk management plan for hazardous soils at the Estuary site now being developed as Union Point park.
• Saved the City hundreds of thousands of dollars in cleanup costs through strategic investigations and real estate transaction advice at the site currently being developed as the Coliseum passenger rail station.
• Oversaw soil cleanup along Mandela Parkway, allowing for the on-going construction of Memorial Park and the landscaped Mandela Parkway median.
• Completed an extensive asbestos and lead-based paint investigation of all City facilities and operations, inputting all data collected in an electronic database available for future renovations and demolitions.

Recycling

• Continued to meet state mandated 50% waste diversion goals in 2001 and 2002, as certified by the California Integrated Waste Management Board in 2004.
• Completed plans for 2005 residential recycling expansion: weekly citywide one-cart recycling & yard trimmings/food scraps collection. Secured $400,000 in funding from the Alameda County Waste Management Authority and Recycling Board (www.stopwaste.org) to support inclusion of residential food scraps.
• Implemented on-call bulky collection program city-wide, increasing the recycling rate of this service from 10% to 50%, and improving enforcement of illegal dumping laws.
• Replaced 10 diesel-powered garbage trucks with low-emissions natural gas engine trucks through grant funding from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, passed through to the City's garbage collection franchisee , Waste Management of Alameda County. These 10 trucks emit 94% less particulate matter and 55% less nitrogen oxides compared to the diesel trucks they replaced.
• Produced construction & demolition recycling training video for public distribution and broadcast on KTOP government access television.
• Processed about 600 construction & demolition recycling plans and summary reports, documenting approximately 285 tons/month diversions from landfill.
• Held twelve environmental lectures and workshops for City and Port staff, and consultants , on green building design and construction. Attendance ranged from 40-70 attendees per session.
• Purchased and installed 86 recycling and litter containers using a $116,000 from the California Department of Conservation Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Grant.
• Certified more than ninety Green Businesses.
• Distributed 5,000 oil recycling kits, with funding from the California Integrated Waste Management Board, to Oakland residents via retail auto parts stores.
• Over eighty certified Green Businesses

Contact:

Environmental Services Manager
Susan Kattchee (510) 238-6382

Administrative Assistant I
Detra Cooley (510) 238-7294

Administrative Assistant II
Chris Staller (510) 238-3686

Sustainability Programs

Sustainability Coordinator
Garrett Fitzgerald (510) 238-6179

Environmental Protection & Compliance

Supervisor, Environmental Protection & Compliance
Mark Gomez (510) 238-7314

Environmental Compliance Specialist
Nancy Humphrey (510) 238-6259

Environmental Protection Specialist
Gopakumar Nair (510) 238-6361

Environmental Protection Specialist
Mark Arniola (510) 238-7371

Environmental Resources Analyst
Bryn Samuel (510) 238-6227

Recycling and Solid Waste Programs

Solid Waste and Recycling Program Supervisor
Becky Dowdakin (510) 238-6981

Senior Recycling Program Specialist
Mark Gagliardi (510) 238-6262

Recycling Program Specialist
Ferial Mosley (510) 238-7433

Recycling Program Specialist
Peter Slote (510) 238-7432

Recycling Program Specialist
Patrick Hayes (510) 238-6920

Recycling Customer Service Representative
William Crowder (510) 238-7073

Environmental Services Assistant
David Finacom (510) 238-7694

Recycling Program Specialist
Wanda Redic (510) 238-6808

Energy Conservation and Efficiency

Energy Engineer III
Scott Wentworth (510) 615-5421

Electrical Engineer II
Pete Fong (510) 615-5901

Electrical Engineer II
Ed Wong (510) 615-2255

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