PBSJ Vice President Charles Padera A Member of St. Johns County Land Acquisition Board (LAMP)

PBSJ Vice President Charles Padera A Member of St. Johns County Land Acquisition Board (LAMP)

Biographi from St. Johns County governmetn website:
Charles Padera
Mr. Charles “Chuck” Padera, a lifelong resident of Florida, has been working on Florida water resource issues for over 30 years. He has served as a senior manager with the Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission in the Everglades Region as that region’s Aquatic Biologist. Chuck joined the South Florida Water Management District where he served as Director of that District’s Natural Resource Management Division. There he developed the environmental enforcement and permit review aspects of the District’s water resource regulatory program. He was instrumental in developing environmental regulatory criteria, standards, and rules for wetland and water quality protection of central and south Florida. Many of these criteria are still in use at that district.

From 1989-2000, Chuck directed the St. Johns River Water Management District’s Water Resource Department and managed over 200 professional scientists, engineers, surveyors, hydrologists, and chemists conducting a broad array of water resource projects. Two Federal flood control projects (the Upper St. Johns River Basin Project and Upper Ocklawaha River Basin Project), the Indian River National Estuary Program, the district’s Surface Water Improvement and Management (SWIM) program which includes the Lower St. Johns River, Lake Apopka, the Upper Ocklawaha River, and the Indian River and three other basin projects were a few of the programs under his direction.

In November of 2001, Chuck was extended the privilege of joining PBS&J to lead a team supporting the Army Corps of Engineers’ Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan as well as lead the company’s national ecosystem sciences efforts.

In February of 2001, Chuck was appointed by Governor Bush to serve a four-year term as St. Johns County’s representative on the Florida Inland Navigation District and was reappointed in 2005. He now serves as Chairman of that Commission.