Jeffrey L. Lape has been selected as the next director of the Chesapeake Bay Program Office. For the majority of his 16 years with the EPA, Lape has served in key positions involving leadership in national water pollution control strategies. He helped to spearhead the agency’s reform efforts with industrial wastewater management, combined sewer overflows, animal feeding operations, watershed-based permitting and several other Clean Water Act programs.  

Stevens Water Monitoring Systems, Portland, Ore., has brought in Mike Boulier as the company’s new radio frequency (RF) technician. Mike has 22 years of military RF experience with Air Force Special Operations and the Army, including single and multi-channel ground radio and satellite tactical communications equipment. He had two tours of duty in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. Boulier will support customers using satellite and other telemetry data collection systems.

Calvin P. Noling, P.E., and Daniel A. Scarpine, P.E. have formed StormwateRx, Portland, Ore., a multidisciplinary engineering and products company bringing in-depth knowledge of stormwater policy, regulations, design and stormwater reclamation systems to clients in the Western United States. Previously, Noling managed Contech Stormwater Solutions Industrial Business while Scarpine was lead designer. Noling has recently been invited to sit on the Oregon Stormwater Solutions Team, a group of stakeholders and experts whose objective is to develop a plan for reducing urban runoff in Oregon.

Jeff Kishel, P.E. , has been named Denver-based Stantec’s new senior vice president of the environment department. Kishel will oversee all company operations and staff within the environment group, which includes more than 1,050 professional staff. He has more than 25 years of experience in the engineering consulting industry in a wide variety of management roles, from small start-ups to global growth assignments. He specializes in the planning, design and implementation of large-scale water resource projects.

Michael Lacey has been named vice president of finance and information technology for Solvay North America LLC, headquartered in Houston. He succeeds Phil Uhrhan, who retired Feb. 28. Most recently Lacey served as president and CEO of Solvay Solexis Inc. in Thorofare, N.J., a position he held since 1999. Prior to that, he served as the company’s CFO.

Peter C. Bokor has joined Ecovation, Rochester, N.Y., as vice president and director of West Coast operations and development. Bokor previously worked with California-based Earth Tech Inc., a Tyco International Ltd. company, where he established annual operating priorities for management and staff between Earth Tech and the parent company. Bokor’s experience with strategy and financial planning was honed during his tenure at Lehman Brothers, where he worked with leveraged buyout funds and performed merger and acquisition analyses to evaluate investment opportunities for client companies.