News at Altamont

  • Altamont Releases Time-Lapse Video of Stream and Streambank Restoration Project
    Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 17:41

    Altamont has released a time-lapse video showing “before, during, and after” conditions of a 2-mile section of the North Pacolet River in Polk County where Altamont spearheaded an effort to stabilize failing streambanks, enhance riparian vegetation and habitat, and place into conservation a minimum 50-foot-wide riparian buffer.  The project is part of a Watershed Plan that will restore and place into conservation the riparian area along the entire main stem of the river within North Carolina, a distance of 18 river miles.  

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  • Altamont Drills at Green Energy Park
    Sunday, December 18, 2011 - 13:19

    Altamont's project engineer Paul Dow coordinates and manages the installation of four new landfill gas extraction wells at the closed Dillsboro Landfill in Jackson County, North Carolina.  The wells were installed to supplement the original nine landfill gas extraction wells, which were installed in 2005 to supply methane to the Green Energy Park (GEP).  According to Timm Muth, GEP Director, “It’s important because it will allow us to maximize our gas supply here at the GEP.

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  • Altamont Seeks Remediation Engineer
    Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 17:03

    Altamont has an immediate opening for a project-level Engineer with technical training and experience in soil and groundwater remediation system design, operation, and maintenance. For additional information, see our Employment Opportunities page.

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  • Altamont Seeks Water Resources Engineer
    Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 13:15

    Altamont has an immediate opening for a project-level Engineer with technical training and experience in watershed planning, natural channel and constructed wetland engineering and design, fluvial geomorphology, and construction management.  For additional information, see our Employment Opportunities page.

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  • Marta VanDussen, E.I. Attends Global Methane Initiative Meeting in Poland
    Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - 14:28

    Altamont’s Marta VanDussen, E.I. attended the Global Methane Initiative (GMI) Meeting in Krakow, Poland last week.  GMI is a multilateral partnership, the purpose of which is to “create a voluntary, non-binding framework for international cooperation to reduce anthropogenic methane emissions and advance the recovery to use of methane as a valuable clean energy source”.  Ms. VanDussen, who is a native of Lubin, Poland, joined nearly 200 participants from 37 countries and 6 continents in this partnership-wide meeting. 

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  • Altamont’s Anna Saylor Enjoys Sabbatical in New Zealand
    Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 09:30

    After five years at Altamont as a Wetland Professional in Training (WPIT) and ecology specialist, Anna Saylor, has taken a 9-week leave of absence to vacation in New Zealand with her husband.  They have been visiting both islands and Anna will return to Altamont in November.

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  • Jennifer Hill-Verde Returns to Altamont
    Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - 10:41

    Jennifer Hill-Verde, E.I. has re-joined the Altamont staff after a two-year hiatus.  Ms. Hill-Verde originally joined Altamont in 2005 after earning a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado.  At Altamont, she focused primarily on environmental assessment and remediation, environmental compliance, and stormwater management.  Ms. Hill-Verde left Altamont in 2009 after the birth of her second child and spent two years living in Mexico with her family.  She returned to both Asheville and Altamont in August 2011. 

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  • Altamont's Lisa Manning Joins Green Opportunities
    Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - 10:36

    Lisa Manning, P.E., LEED AP is leaving our company to join Green Opportunities (GO), an Asheville-based community-based development organization that provides innovative green collar job training and placement programs.  Lisa will be Water Team Project Manager at Green Opportunities, developing a water quality and stormwater training curriculum and providing training for individuals in the GO program.  Altamont offers best wishes to Lisa and Green Opportunities.

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  • Altamont Sponsors “Friends of the River” Dinner and Awards
    Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 03:00

    Altamont was pleased to sponsor the Land-of-Sky Regional Council’s 34th Annual “Friends of the River” Dinner and Awards Event on August 30, 2011.  The awards are intended to recognize individuals, private organizations, civic groups, and/or public agencies in Buncombe, Henderson, Madison, and Transylvania counties who have made significant contributions toward the enhancement or restoration of the French Broad River as a cultural, economic, natural, or recreational resource.  Mayor Terry Bellamy (Ash

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Asheville, NC 28801
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