Commissioner of the Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) Robert Martineau released an announcement Tuesday, July 10, 2012, naming Patrick Flood as the new Director of the Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, and Lisa Hughey as the Division’s Deputy Director of Field Office Operations.

Pat Flood is a professional engineer that has been with the design engineering firm AECOM, and was managing its Oak Ridge office.  Lisa Hughey has been a division manager for Olin Chlor-Alkali with responsibility for environmental oversight of ten manufacturing plants in North America.

Flood will assume the Director’s position on August 13, and Hughey will start August 1.