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Served as expert witness in a case where a contractor installing fiber optic lines by horizontal directional drilling punctured a water line, causing extensive damage to the street. The water utility company had marked the site of the water line but had failed to mark...

Served as an expert witness in a case where sewage backed up from the sewer system into a mobile home. After an initial site visit, the mobile home park disclosed that it did in fact have plans of the sewer system, which previously they denied having. Made a second...

Evaluated a situation in which a private sewer serving several residences in a court was found to be backing up. The City, which owned the public sewer to which the private sewer connected, inspected their portion of the piping and found that it was not blocked. The...

Provided technical advice on the effect of sewer blockages on the escape of PCE from the City sewer system. The blockages were due to grease from "restaurant row", which was just downstream from the sites of several dry cleaners. Issues included, sags in the sewer,...

Provided technical evaluation for a cheese processing plant where a dissolved air flotation clarifier could not be operated at the promised hydraulic capacity. Determined that the clarifier did in fact have adequate solids processing capacity but that the unit could...

Provided technical advice and expert witness testimony in a case where the owners of a shopping center refused to pay a company that had furnished equipment for an on-site wastewater treatment system. Determined that many of the officers of the shopping center were...

Served as an expert witness helping defend a design consultant who was being sued because a wastewater treatment plant failed to meet its discharge requirements after an improvement project was constructed. Determined that the facilities that were included in the...

Served as an expert witness in a case where a public agency cancelled a project just prior to bidding and refused to pay the consulting engineering firm its fees. The project involved a small diameter sewer system for an unsewered city of about 400 houses with...

Served as an expert witness in a case where a sequencing batch reactor wastewater treatment plant serving an upscale subdivision has failed to meet the requirements of the discharge permit. The owner received a proposal for a very expensive completely new plant of a...