The Auger Group, Inc., a State of California Corporation does business as Clearwater Group. The company is a State of California Corporation. Clearwater has fifteen employees at the Point Richmond office. Most of the current Clearwater projects are within California, however, the corporation has also performed projects in Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Montana, Florida, Pennsylvania, Canada and Argentina. The company is licensed for contracting in California and Washington.

Olivia P. Jacobs, MS, REA I, NEM is the co-founder and President/Chief Executive Officer of the corporation. She is a Senior Project Manager and Principal Environmental Specialist. She has a master's degree in health care administration and has worked in the environmental industry since 1990, in environmental due diligence, Phase I Environmental Assessments and oversight of all company work. Ms. Jacobs is a State of California Registered Environmental Assessor I, a Nevada Environmental Manager and a credentialed Lead and Asbestos inspector. Ms. Jacobs is a co-founder and the majority owner of the firm.

Rob Nelson, P.G., C.E.G. is a Senior Geologist and Project Manager who has specialized in field methods. He is a Certified Engineering Geologist in addition to being a California Professional Geologist. He has over 20 years of experience in assessment methods. He has managed a variety of complex soil and groundwater remediation projects. He is active in the Northern California Geological Society.

Erik Lervaag, P.E., is a Senior Environmental Engineer and Project Manager. He has a undergraduate degree in biology and a master’s degree in environmental engineering. He is registered in Florida as a professional engineer. He has more than half a dozen years of experience working on remedial projects for both private and public clients. Cases include both petroleum hydrocarbon, chlorinated solvent and pesticide remedial projects.

Gavin Fisco is a Staff Geologist and Project Manager with a bachelor’s degree in geology from Colgate University in Upstate New York. He has experience working on stable isotope variation in Ordovician brachiopods from the Trenton Group of Central New York and he participated in a seven week field-camp ranging from the highly metamorphosed Taconics of Vermont to the ancient sedimentary basins of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. Recently he has been involved with the company’s in-situ injection program.

Diego Funes is a Staff Engineer and Project Manager. He has an undergraduate degree in civil engineering. He completed an internship at the Tropical Research and Education Center at the Florida Everglades National Park where he was involved in the sampling of groundwater, water quality data analysis and hydrological modeling. He has over a year of experience in environmental project management with a company in Florida where he worked on a variety of projects, including a landfill capping and wetland remediation project as well as a variety of soil and groundwater sampling projects at military bases.

Sandy Young, Senior Technical Editor and Project Coordinator, has degrees in German and business. She has worked as a technical editor for more than 20 years on a variety of science topics for the Federal government and in the healthcare industry. Most recently she has focused her editing on environmental reports. As a Project Coordinator, she assists in the preparation of the Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund (USTCF) reimbursement packages.

Philipp Ilagan is the Computer Aided Design Drafter. As a CAD Drafter, he prepares detailed schematics of remedial systems and boring logs and maps. He has worked on a variety of engineering drafting projects at Clearwater.

Eric V. Austin is the Field Manager. He operated a CME 75 drill rig for ten years in Texas and has operated a Geoprobe for the company. He is involved with field projects as scheduling manager, field supervisor, sampler, and environmental technician. He operates the Geoprobe 5400 rig, collects soil and groundwater samples, sets and collects GORETM modules for surveys, installs iSOC systems, and performs iSOC operation and maintenance for numerous sites. He joined the company in 2003.

Michael Audibert, R.E.A., C.M.I., began his health, safety, and environmental career as a project manager in 2000. Mr. Audibert specializes in regulatory compliance and environmental due diligence, and has conducted hundreds of Phase I Environmental Site Assessments on a variety of residential, commercial, and industrial properties. Mr. Audibert has also managed industrial hygiene projects, including asbestos surveys, mold inspections, radon testing, and other indoor air quality assessments. Mr. Audibert is a Registered Environmental Assessor (REA) and a Certified Mold Inspector (CMI). Mr. Audibert received his BA in Business Management from the University of Vermont, and a MPA in Public Administration.

Deangiela Ford is a Project Administrator and Accounts Receivable Billing Clerk. She assists the Project Managers to track project costs and schedules. She has 10 years of experience with the Department of Defense and a total of twenty years of administrative experience.

Sandy Cook is the Contracts Administration Specialist and focuses on invoicing, report preparation as well as budget projections, regulatory compliance research and insurance documentation. She has over fifteen years of experience in the construction and environmental engineering fields.

Sharon Hardin is the Bookkeeper for The Auger Group, Inc. Her current experience at The Auger Group, Inc. involves American Contractor accounting software.

Hermy Tam is an Administrative Assistant. She helps the Clearwater Project Managers to expedite the issuing of report and the copy, bind and send operations for reports and letters. She also assists Project Managers with other tasks as assigned.

Jennifer Huang is a Project Administrator and Accounts Receivable Billing Clerk. She assists the Clearwater Project Managers to track project costs and schedules.

For more details about staff capability, please contact Clearwater Group at (510) 307-9943. Olivia Jacobs (ext. 223) will be glad to help you with your request or proposal.