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Ken Martins PE, AAEES Certified
<br />Technical Review
<br />40 years of experience Reno, Nevada
<br />With more than 40 years of specializing in water treatment, Ken's experience includes activated carbon and
<br />media filters, air stripper systems, demineralizers and other selective ion exchange systems, reverse osmosis
<br />and ultrafiltration systems, advanced oxidation processes, evaporator and crystallizer systems, biological
<br />treatment systems, and systems treating radionuclides bearing waters. His extensive process design experience
<br />in industrial raw water and groundwater remediation treatment systems includes treatment of difficult
<br />contaminants such as perchlorate, MtBE, 1,4-Dioxane, PFAS and chromate. Ken has worked on dozens of
<br />large-scale projects utilizing granular activated carbon (GAC) and selective ion exchange, the primary
<br />technologies utilized for PFAS treatment.
<br />EDUCATION
<br />BS, Chemical Engineering, California Polytechnic,
<br />Pomona, California
<br />REGISTRATIONS
<br />Professional Engineer #CH 4876, California
<br />PROJECT EXPERIENCE
<br />Well No. 38 PFAS Groundwater Treatment System
<br />Orange County Water Districl/City of Santa Ana
<br />Santa Ana, California I Technical Reviewer
<br />Ken is providing ongoing senior process leadership
<br />and quality control and review for the ion exchange
<br />process for the City Well No. 38 groundwater
<br />treatment system for PFAS (PFOA, PFOS.. PFHxS,
<br />PFHxA, PFBS). This project will treat more than 2
<br />mgd using cartridge prefiltration and four 12-ft
<br />diameter ion change columns and is currently in its
<br />initial stages of execution.
<br />On -Call Consulting Services for PFAS Treatment
<br />Systems Design I Orange County Water District
<br />(OCWD) I Santa Ana, California I Technical Review
<br />Ken is working in the technical review capacity with a
<br />similar staff and subconsultant team on this project for
<br />OCWD. His work includes third -party review of
<br />preliminary design, final design,. bid phase support,.
<br />engineering services during construction, and part
<br />time inspection services. This ongoing assignment is
<br />currently in construction.
<br />Public Water Treatment' I EPA Superfund Site
<br />Glendale, California I EPA Site Manager
<br />As site manager, Ken supported EPA at the facility for
<br />approximately 10 years. The Glendale site is
<br />designed to treat about 5.000 GPM of VOC-
<br />contaminated groundwater and includes air stripping
<br />followed by liquid phase granular activated carbon
<br />(LGAC) to remove VOCs. Ken provided detailed
<br />inspection of the system and recommended
<br />numerous equipment modifications. The Glendale
<br />groundwater also contains hexavalent chromium,
<br />which is not effectively treated by the air stripper or
<br />the LGAC system. Ken continued to support EPA in
<br />reviewing and developing technologies to remove
<br />hexavalent chromium including precipitation
<br />technologies, chemical reduction technologies, and IX
<br />technologies. During Ken is tenure, he has provided
<br />EPA technical oversight for the selection, design and
<br />construction of two demonstration -scale facilities. One
<br />facility uses reduction, coagulation, and filtration
<br />(RCF) for Cr(VI) removal for an extraction well from
<br />the North OU. The other facility will use a weak based
<br />anion (WBA) ion exchange resin for CnVI) removal
<br />for an extraction well from the South OU. These
<br />facilities are designed for flow rates of 100 GPM and
<br />425 GPM, respectively.
<br />Fire Training Facility I Los Angeles International
<br />Airport (LAX) I Los Angeles, California
<br />Project Manager
<br />Ken managed the process design of a wastewater
<br />handling and treatment facility for the LAX fire training
<br />facility. The wastewater produced from the fire
<br />training facility included percent levels of Jet A fuel
<br />and up to 6,000 PPM of a surfactant material called
<br />Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF), a common type
<br />of PolyFlouroAlkyl Substances (PFAS). For treatment,
<br />wastewater was decanted from the rock pit
<br />surrounding the 2l3rds scale Boeing 727 to a
<br />treatment system. The treatment system included a
<br />facility fuel/water coalescing separator to remove bulk
<br />Jet A followed by filtration and adsorption by GAC to
<br />remove trace levels of Jet A and AFFF. Ken
<br />developed the treatment process, specified the
<br />treatment equipment, monitored the construction,
<br />prepared the O&M manuals, and supported start-up
<br />and training of the fire fighters in the specialized
<br />waste handling operations.
<br />'denotes projects completed with other firms
<br />City of Santa Ana On Call Engineering Design Services for PFAS Treatment Systems RFP No. 22-133 A-15
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