Charlie Aquilina, PE, CFM

Charlie is a licensed Professional Engineer and a Certified Floodplain Manager with over five years of experience in water resources engineering. His expertise includes hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, green stormwater infrastructure, civil site design, ecological restoration, and flood resilience. Charlie holds a master’s degree in Biological Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Prior to joining Princeton Hydro, Charlie worked as a water resource engineer for Meliora Design, where he designed green stormwater infrastructure projects such as rain gardens and underground infiltration beds, created master plans for state and local parks, and modeled conceptual floodplain restoration studies for the Brandywine Creek Flood Study. Before Meliora, he worked at Kleinschmidt Associates where he worked on hydrologic and hydraulic projects such as dam breaches, dam removals, nature-like fishways, and FEMA LOMRs.

Outside of work, he likes to play ultimate frisbee and lead his local Environmental Advisory Council where he plans park invasive removals and tree giveaways.