Joe Hochreiter, Jr.
Youth Orchestra of Bucks County
Professionally, Joe is a Hydrologist who is President of his own consulting firm, Senior Environmental Consulting, LLC of Yardley, PA. Joe provides Fortune 500 manufacturing companies, brownfields site redevelopers, and municipalities with scientific and engineering solutions to their environmental challenges. Joe lives in Yardley with his wife, Eileen, and his two children, Erich and Kristen.
Joe has been very active as a volunteer in the community. In high school and college, Joe volunteered as a recreation coordinator at Byberry State Mental Hospital in Philadelphia. After serving as a Disaster Services Team member since 1972, Joe served for seven years (1985-1992) on the Board of Directors of the Lower Bucks County Chapter of the Red Cross, where he managed Disaster Services and founded the Red Cross Homeless Shelter in Levittown. He again served on the Red Cross Shelter’s Advisory Committee and returned in 2009 to the Chapter’s Board of Directors and their Executive Committee. When the Red Cross closed the Lower Bucks County Chapter in 2011, Joe led a team that worked with the Red Cross to find a new sponsor for the Homeless Shelter, Family Service Association (FSA) of Bucks County. He currently co-chairs FSA’s “Friends of the Shelter” committee.
He is on the Board (past Board President) of the The Counseling Center of Holland, a non-profit, psychotherapeutic counseling center that serves those who cannot afford private-practice therapy. He is also Chairman of the Board for the non-profit Youth Orchestra of Bucks County, whose members include 250 of the region’s most talented young classical musicians. Joe has also served on the Board of the Bucks County Symphony Orchestra in 2007 and 2008.
SEC was a major corporate sponsor for Trenton Downtown Association’s “Women in Jazz” series of concerts and workshops. SEC is also a Benefactor to the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia, which recently completed a major redesign of its air/water/land and energy exhibits with an emphasis on “green” principles and technologies. SEC also supports the Greenbelt Overhaul Alliance of Levittown (GOAL) in its effort to improve the flow and environmental quality of drainage ways in Levittown, PA.
Joe is active in the sports of motorcycling, skiing, and endurance kart racing. He communicates with people across the world as an active General Class Radio Amateur (WA3KTZ), having received his first license in 1968.