About me
Tim Walsh has served as the Regional Director for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Region 8, which includes the southern shore of Lake Ontario and stretches to the Pennsylvania border and includes Rochester and the Finger Lakes Region, since 2020. Tim’s experience with DEC started in the Stony Brook Office on Long Island, and over the course of his career has also worked in DEC’s Central Office and in the Region 8 Avon Office.
Tim’s experience includes responding to spills of petroleum, chemicals and other hazardous materials and managing the Division of Environmental Remediation’s three Bulk Storage Programs in Region 8, including the Chemical and Petroleum Bulk Storage, Programs as well as the Major Oil Storage Facility Program. In addition, Tim has served as Chief of the Western Flood Protection and Dam Safety Hub Section (Western Flood HUB) implementing the four programs of the Division of Water’s Bureau of Flood Protection and Dam Safety in DEC’s Regions 6, 7, 8 and 9, which include the Coastal Erosion, Flood Protection, Dam Safety, and Floodplain Management programs and has served as the Regional Emergency Response Coordinator. Tim served as the technical lead for the REDI initiative for DEC for Monroe County. Tim is a licensed Professional Engineer in New York State. Tim earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson University, and a Master of Public Administration from the State University of New York’s College at Brockport.