Kimberly Lake, PG

Ms. Lake is a Professional Geologist with more than twenty years of environmental consulting experience including environmental site assessment and remediation, project management, insurance claim evaluation, financial auditing, and litigation support. Her experience covers environmental pollutants such as solvents, petroleum hydrocarbons, metals, pesticides, perchlorate, PCBs, and sulfolane. Ms. Lake has completed numerous remedial investigations. She assisted in the design and installation of soil and groundwater remediation systems and supervised the installation and maintenance of vapor intrusion mitigation systems. With a solid foundation in environmental characterization, the past fifteen years of Ms. Lake’s career has focused largely on providing technical support and financial evaluations for environmental insurance claims.

• Conducted technical evaluations for a named PRP in support of the allocation process for the Portland Harbor Superfund Site. Evaluated historical site operations, previous investigation and response actions, assertions made by other PRPs, and potential contribution. Developed potential allocation model for past and future response costs.
• Provided technical support in ongoing case related to environmental damages arising from a former dry cleaning operation in the San Francisco Bay area. Evaluated investigation and remedial actions conducted to date, proposed site conceptual model, and identified investigative data gaps, including potential additional off-site source contributions.
• Provided technical and claims analysis in support of expert opinion as part of a bad faith lawsuit between insurance carrier and insured for a large, complex former military site in California. Evaluated adequacy of claims submittals and reasonableness of environmental costs.
• Prepared a technical report for insurance carriers with potential liability at multiple sites near the Passaic River Superfund Site in New Jersey. Report provided the carriers with a historical overview of the Superfund Site and major upland sources, status of environmental assessment and cleanup of the river and major upland sources, and a matrix of PRPs identified by the USEPA and lawsuits filed by other named PRPs to help them understand their potential exposures.