Principal Health Scientist
President and Founder
Kurt Fehling is a health scientist with over 30 years of experience conducting human health risk assessments and exposure assessments and has designed and implemented several human exposure studies. He has conducted assessments for occupational and residential populations exposed to contaminated soil, air, groundwater, and biological media from manufacturing facilities, wood-treating facilities, and sites with pesticides, metals, radionuclides, munitions and explosive constituents, and numerous other chemicals, separately and in combinations. He has performed assessments for sites regulated by EPA Regions II, III, IV, V, VIII, and IX and in the states of Arizona, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Louisiana, Ohio, South Carolina, and Texas. Mr. Fehling currently serves as the Project Manager and lead risk assessment technical advisor/reviewer for the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP) Bureau of Industrial Site Cleanup, the lead risk assessment reviewer for the San Luis Obispo County Department of Environmental Health, and the State of Arizona under the Arizona Superfund Response Action Contract (ASRAC) and their Hazardous Waste Programs both through review of responsible party submissions to the State and through the conduct of risk assessments on behalf of the State.
Mr. Fehling’s recent work includes addressing human health and ecological issues associated with the reclamation of the Black Mountain Industrial (BMI) Complex on behalf of the NDEP. Industrial operations have been ongoing at the Site since World War II. Chemical releases to soil and groundwater included volatile organic compounds (VOCs), semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs), metals, perchlorate, organochlorine pesticides, organophosphate pesticides, radionuclides, asbestos, PCBs, cyanide, and dioxins/furans. Mr. Fehling is currently providing risk assessment services to Region IX USEPA for multiple sites. Specifically, he is currently quantifying risks to pesticides and PCBs in fish from the Palos Verde Shelf area, quantifying exposures at the South El Monte Operable Unit, providing technical oversight for the Asarco Copper Smelter and Halaco sites, the Indian Bend Wash site, Cooper Drum, and DCE Circuits.
Mr. Fehling was a cofounder of ChemRisk in 2003 and The Fehling Group, LLC in 2008 where he continues to serve as President and Principal Health Scientist.