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PRINCETON, New Jersey – The Kleinfelder Group announced today that Pilar Patterson has joined Kleinfelder’s water services team effective October 12, 2016.

Prior to joining Kleinfelder, Pilar held the position of Chief of the Bureau of Surface Water Permitting, Division of Water Quality at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), and managed programs regulating over 400 wastewater facilities. Before that, Pilar worked in the sewerage infrastructure construction program and the state revolving fund infrastructure loan program.

“We are excited to have Pilar join the Kleinfelder team,” said James Cosgrove Jr., PE., Vice President/Principal. “I have worked with Pilar for over 25 years in her role as manager at NJDEP, and look forward to bringing her state and national expertise to Kleinfelder. Kleinfelder, our clients, and the community will benefit immensely from her experience and leadership.”

In 2011, Pilar and her team at NJDEP took on the challenge of New Jersey’s combined sewer overflow (CSO) program, and used collaborative permitting to raise New Jersey to a national model for CSO compliance. Rather than pursuing costly EPA consent decrees, which have resulted in billions of dollars of costs to communities, Pilar, in close cooperation with the USEPA, created a permit-based model that brings communities into compliance with the Clean Water Act while allowing flexibility to address local needs and economic realities. Pilar has been recognized by the USEPA as a visionary whose leadership and innovative approach presents a new paradigm for CSO compliance.

Pilar’s in-depth knowledge of New Jersey and Federal environmental regulations, combined with her proven ability to provide innovative and cost effective solutions to communities’ wastewater issues, will provide clients new options and opportunities to address complex wastewater needs.

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