H2M hires Ponturo as senior water resources eng.

According to H2M, Paul Ponturo, P.E. has joined the firm as senior water resources engineer in the water resource engineering department. He is a licensed professional engineer in N.Y., with over 36 years of diversified water resource management experience. Prior to H2M, he was the chief of the Office of Water Resources, of the Suffolk County Department of Health Services' Division of Environmental Quality, where he served as a public health engineer since 1972. He supervised a staff of 34 engineers, hydrogeologists, sanitarians, well drillers and office support personnel. While at the department he focused on regulations governing county public water supplies, monitoring of drinking water quality and groundwater resources, cooperative studies with NYSDOH, NYSDEC and the U.S. EPA, Suffolk's water resource planning, and categorizing impacts to the watershed areas of public supply well sources. A member of the American Water Works Association since 1978 and the Long Island Water Conference, he chairs the conference's Drinking Water Standards committee. He received a master of science in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of N.Y. and a bachelor of science in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University.