Claim Against Design Consultant For Failure Of A Wastewater Treatment Plant To Perform After An Improvement Project, Northern California
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...
Design Engineer Suit For Payment Of Engineering Fees
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...
Wastewater Treatment Plant Claim
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...
Wastewater Treatment Plant Claim
Evaluated proposed corrective measures in a $5 million claim in which a wastewater treatment plant failed to perform as intended. The levees around earthen storage lagoons leaked because the design did not incorporate the recommendations of the geotechnical engineer....
Wastewater Treatment Plant Fatal Accident, Southern California
Provided expert witness services in a case where a workman installing deck panels over a concrete channel stepped on the unsupported cantilevered end of a panel and fell to his death. Issues included the responsibilities of the owner, the contractor, the design...
Septic System Failure
Investigated why the toilet at a rural residence in Contra Costa County would not flush properly. The tenant had called the County Environmental Health Department and the landlord had responded with a retaliatory eviction. Found that the septic tank and leach field...
Inadequate Septic Tank Inspection, Los Angeles County, CA.
As a requirement of the lender, the septic system serving a house for sale was inspected by a septic system service company. Two weeks after the new owner moved in, the system failed. A second septic system service company noted that the earlier inspection was...
Death from Septic Tank Dry Well, Ventura County.
Unbeknownst to the present homeowners, the septic tank system of their home was equipped with a dry well, rather than a conventional leach field. The dry well was about 3-feet in diameter and 25-feet deep. This type of disposal facility had been permitted until...
Hepatitis Infection from Surfacing Septic Tank Effluent, Marin County.
Provided expert technical advice on a suit where the children of a farm worker were alleged to have contracted hepatitis from exposure to surfacing septic tank effluent.