Glynis Berry, Executive Director, Peconic Green Growth
Bob Eichinger, Advisory Consultant & Project Manager, Onsite Engineering, PLLC
This presentation will highlight how proven Decentralized Wastewater Treatment
Systems (DWTS) can be used to reduce nitrogen pollution into the estuaries, bays, and groundwater from the 350,000 + residential cesspools and aging & undersized septic systems in Suffolk County. References from actual DWTS pilot engineering study data for priority sites in Suffolk County will be used to highlight the latest DWTS collection, treatment, and subsurface dispersal technologies. The presentation will summarize
DWTS treatment performance, cost-effectiveness, and the operations & maintenance process.
Glynis Berry , AIA, LEED AP, an architect, urban designer and planner, is the Executive
Director of Peconic Green Growth. Glynis supervised extensive studies of the LI Sound watershed and the Peconic Estuary on the East End, which included mapping issues, conducting a citizen survey, generating initial engineering reports, and suggesting regulatory and operation changes. She has organized symposia on Decentralized
Wastewater Treatment, both in 2011 and 2013. For Peconic Green Growth she wrote a
Proposed Methodology for Establishing Need for Decentralized Wastewater Upgrades based on Environmental Conditions, to address wastewater treatment upgrades needed to ensure surface water quality as well as that of drinking water. Glynis is now planning the first NoFo Blue + Green Tour, highlighting environmental best practices, and will manage a pilot of alternative wastewater discharge practices for decentralized systems.
Previously Glynis started NYC DOT’s pedestrian and traffic calming program, as well as supervised the bicycle program, where she worked on comprehensive planning issues and developed criteria for the installation of new prototypes that are now part of the department’s tool kit of solutions. She is also a partner in the firm studio a/b architects.
She is a graduate of Smith College and Yale School of Architecture (M.Arch).
Bob Eichinger , is an Advisory Consultant & Project Manager for Onsite Engineering,
PLLC. He joined Onsite Engineering in 2010 where he teams with Eric Murdock, P.E. to design Innovative/Alternative DWTS systems for Commercial, Residential, Municipal,
County, Nonprofit, and Residential clients in New York and Connecticut. Bob began
2015 New York State Biotechnology Symposium • May 12 & 13, 2015
At Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY

working in the Innovative/Alternative Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Systems
(DWTS) market in 2007. He gained approval for and managed the project team for the first installation of an Innovative/Alternative DWTS in Dutchess County in 2009. Bob is a member of the Westchester County Septic Sub-Committee which helps to set the direction and strategy for the 40,000 onsite septic systems in Westchester County. He is a frequent speaker to the numerous stakeholders for potential Innovative/Alternative
DWTS throughout New York State. Bob has been an Instructor for the NYS-Onsite
Training Network with an emphasis on small community systems since 2012. He received a BS - Finance from the University of Colorado-Denver in 1983.
2015 New York State Biotechnology Symposium • May 12 & 13, 2015
At Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY