Richard B. White

Background

With over 45 years of consulting engineering practice, Rich has substantial experience in the assessment, design, and management of civil and environmental engineering projects. Through this experience, he has gained an in-depth understanding of the critical role that surface and subsurface water, soil, and rock play on project success. He has provided consulting engineering services to small and large mining, oil and gas, chemical, and other industrial concerns as well as local, State, and Federal governments throughout the United States and internationally. His designs have been implemented to restore natural conditions, mitigate past environmental impacts, prevent future impacts, allow aquifer storage and recovery of groundwater, and permit ground-source heat exchange.

Core Competencies

• Performance of hydrogeologic assessments to evaluate potential groundwater supplies and drilling difficulties
• Assessment and mitigation of environmental impacts resulting from land development
• Design of disturbed-land reclamation plans
• Design of runoff- and sediment-control plans
• Design of stream channel stabilization plans
• Rapid engineering response to oil spills and other environmental emergencies
• Preparation of plans to remediate soil and groundwater contamination
• Interaction with regulatory agencies

Education

Utah State University1977

MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Utah State University1976

BS, Watershed Science

Employment

Richard B. White, PE, PLLC2016-present

Managing Principal, Civil and Environmental Engineer

EarthFax Engineering, Inc. and EarthFax Engineering Group, LLC1982-2016

President, Owner, Principal Civil and Environmental Engineer

Ford, Bacon and Davis, Inc.1979-1983

Senior Hydrologist

Vaughn Hansen Associates1977-1979

Hydrologist

Utah State University1976-1977

Research Assistant

Memberships and Registrations

Utah Solid and Hazardous Waste Control Board1995-2003

Member and Chair

Utah Centers of Excellence Advisory Council, Utah Office of Technology and Science2002-2010

U.S. Department of Commerce, Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee2009-2016

Chair of Trade Promotion Subcommittee

National Ground Water Association

Registered Professional Engineer (Civil) in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming

Awards

Projects designed by Rich have received several local, national, or international awards. These have included:

• Excellence in Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation National Award, presented in 2003 by the U.S. Department of Interior, Office of Surface Mining to Castle Gate Holding Company. Rich provided reclamation design and construction quality control services on this project, which was completed at underground coal mining operations in east-central Utah. The award was presented “for outstanding performance in developing and implementing exemplary mining and reclamation methods that maintained sound environmental conditions.”
• Best Practice designation, presented in 2002 by the Eurasian-American Partnership for Environmentally Sustainable Economies, for work completed by Rich on a project to minimize environmental impacts and maximize coal recovery from waste rock at an underground coal mine in the Russian Far East. The work was so designated because it demonstrated “environmentally sound and economically efficient solutions to environmental problems in Central and Eastern Europe and Asia.”