Richard Raymond

Dick Raymond is President of Terra Systems, Inc. (TSI) a remediation products firm that leverages core competencies in research and development, lab treatability studies, in-house manufacturing, and unsurpassed pre- and post-sales technical support to develop and apply remediation solutions to surface (vadose zone) and subsurface (aquifer) contaminants like PCE,TCE,TECA, and Cr6+. Terra Systems holds the first US patent for the use of emulsified vegetable oil substrate for reductive dechlorination of chlorinated solvents, U.S. Patent No. 6,398,960 B1, “Aquifer Remediation Using Emulsified Oils,” which was developed under a $1M AFCEE contract.

He holds a BA/BS degree from the American University and an MBA from Temple University. His first bioremediation company, Biosystems, Inc., was purchased by the DuPont Company in 1989 and became DuPont Environmental Remediation Services. He founded Terra Systems in 1992. He has over thirty-five years of experience in designing and operating aerobic and anaerobic bioremediation systems for hydrocarbon and chlorinated solvent remediation. Of historical interest is that Dick Raymond’s father, Richard Raymond, Sr., holds the first U.S. aerobic bioremediation patent for the remediation of gasoline, based on work done at a site in Ambler, Pennsylvania in 1972. Dick was involved in the first field project demonstrating anaerobic bioremediation of TCE, which was conducted in 1992 (DuPont; Victoria, TX).