Robert W. Tossell - Director National Remediation Services

Published  May 2009

The Environmental Assessment and Transactional Due Diligence Group at Pinchin Environmental, is pleased to announce the appointment of Bob Tossell as Director, National Remediation Services based in the company’s Mississauga office. Bob’s focus will be to further develop Pinchin’s growing site remediation business.

With over two decades of expertise in remediation system evaluation, design and construction oversight, Bob has worked on some of North America’s most complex and demanding remediation programs. This includes major project sites contaminated with chlorinated solvents, metals (including arsenic and hexavalent chromium), petroleum hydrocarbons, and pesticides.

Bob has managed numerous large scale, multi-year projects, including the development, evaluation and restoration/remediation of contaminated sites, non-point source and point source contamination. He has designed several award winning remediation systems for the US Air Force and Navy, Government agencies and private sector companies. He has conducted a myriad of evaluations for selection of remediation systems including permeable reactive barriers, biological and chemical treatment, phytoremediation, treatment wetland design and construction and air bio-sparging.

From 1999 to 2005, Bob was a co-chair of the Remedial Technologies Development Forum (RTDF), Phytoremediation of Chlorinated Solvents Workgroup, a consortium of partners from industry, government, and academia that coordinates research and development of innovative remediation/restoration technologies. He has published extensively on various remediation topics and has presented numerous papers, seminars and workshops at industry conferences across North America.

Bob holds a M.Sc. in Soil Science from the University of Guelph.

Please contact Bob Tossell at 905-363-1407 or via our Email Contact Form.