Charles W. Kreitler, Ph.D.

Principal, LBG-Guyton Associates

Austin, Texas

Dr. Charles Kreitler is Vice President and Principal with LBG-Guyton Associates in Austin, Texas. He joined the firm in 1993. Previously he was Professor of Hydrogeology, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, and prior to that was a Research Scientist for the Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin. He has conducted ground-water investigations in Texas and the southwestern United States for more than 25 years. His experience includes water-resource investigations of sandstones and limestones, fault activation in the Texas Coastal Zone, and site characterization for both high-level and low-level nuclear waste-disposal sites in salt domes, evaporites and thick unsaturated sections in arid settings. He has worked on problems associated with the injection of brines from the petroleum industry and hazardous wastes from the chemical industry. He has conducted detailed characterization of contaminant sites in both porous media and fractured bedrock. Dr. Kreitler has been involved with ground-water issues associated with the endangered species at Comal and San Marcos Springs in the Edwards aquifer of central Texas. He has authored more than 100 technical articles and contract reports, including books and monographs on the geochemistry of brine contamination, wellhead protection and ground-water flow and the occurrence of uranium deposits.