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.
Alameda County, CA.
Served as expert witness in a case involving the failure of a leach field of a septic tank system at a very large single-family home shortly after the leach field was constructed. While channeling the overflowing sewage away from the residence, the home owner...
Surfacing Septic Tank Effluent.
Reviewed voluminous documents and summarized the technical facts for the attorneys for two insurance companies, whose insureds were being sued by a downslope neighbor who claimed that their septic systems were discharging on to his property. Interviewed the...
Flooding of Apartment Complex, Phoenix, AZ.
Provided expert technical advice on the probable causes of the flooding incident, the role that grease in the sewer system may have played, and the implications of a backflow preventer. Prepared an extensive list of documents to be produced.