CCA specializes in Phase I (All Appropriate Inquiries) and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments, UST removal; soil and ground water related environmental services, and oversight or review of environmental projects. We have experience in all phases of UST related projects, as well as RCRA and Superfund.

The firm’s Principal, Dan Short, P.G. earned a Geology B.A. from California State University, Fresno, and a Geology M.S. from Oklahoma State University. His Master’s thesis characterized the geology and hydrology in part of the Uwharrie Mountains near Troy, North Carolina. He served on the Board of the Ground Water Professionals of North Carolina from 1998 through 2000 and was its President in 1999.

Mr. Short began his geological career in 1972 and has applied his geologic and/or environmental skills in a number of states. These include North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, West Virginia, Alaska, Texas, California, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon and Nevada. His expertise includes projects in sand/shale environments, limestone and dolomite, crystalline rocks, and Piedmont clayey-silty soils. His experience also includes fracture analysis, geophysical interpretation, and geophysical modeling.

Mr. Short is active in community affairs. He helped incorporate the Town of Midland in 2000 and was its first Mayor. He remains active in his community on a volunteer basis in non-political ways.

With over 30 years of technical and supervisory experience, Mr. Short has the skills needed to examine earlier work and to provide the information you need for making informed decisions about property acquisition or additional regulatory requirements.

Mr. Short is a licensed professional geologist in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. CCA Environmental, Inc. is a licensed North Carolina Professional Corporation.