Ms. McLaughlin is a Staff Geologist at LACO Associates and has been a geology consultant since 2011. Ms. McLaughlin provides clients with environmental, engineering geologic and hydrogeological expertise throughout Northern California. Ms. McLaughlin’s multidisciplinary background makes her an asset to LACO’s Geo-Environmental team. Some of the highlights of her experience include, but are not limited to the following:
- Project management;
- Proposal and cost estimate preparation;
- Project scheduling and coordination;
- Preparing and reviewing reports to regulatory agencies for environmentally regulated sites;
- Preparing Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments for real estate transactions;
- Preparing permits for boring and monitoring well installation, destruction, and encroachment;
- Field exploration, supervise boring and monitoring well installation and destruction for environmental and geotechnical explorations, field characterization of soils, field screening, and sampling;
- Septic suitability evaluation and system design;
- Percolation testing;
- Water Quality and Quantity Evaluations;
- Surveying rock quarries for the presence of naturally occurring asbestos;
- Calculating soil loss from vineyard tree removal using the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) and the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE2) program; and,
- Performing site inspection for best management practices (BMPs) for sites that require a stormwater pollution prevention plan (SWPPP). Inspections include visual observations of a site’s BMPs to prevent and address illicit stormwater discharges, preparing inspection reports, and sampling.