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Mariposa County, CA
Lead engineer on design of a $5 million, EPA Clean Water Grant funded project for three small communities in Mariposa County, CA. Each house had an individual septic tank but disposal was in the community mound systems. At the time, it was the largest mound system...
City of San Leandro
Estimated the costs of a five-year capital improvement program for the City's 16 sewage and stormwater pump stations for use as input in the budgeting process.
Of Septage Receiving Stations, Several California Locations
Designed or analyzed several septage receiving stations in California. The septage receiving stations generally consisted of concrete slabs sloping down to a screen and an intake into a liquid transport pipe. For the Kalamazoo resume.
City Of Gilroy
Assisted in the design of various upgrades to the City's wastewater treatment facilities.
Clos La Chance Winery, Morgan Hill, CA
Provided the conceptual design for facilities to treat and recycle winery wastewater.
Pinecrest Permittees Association
Conducting a "repair, replace, or abandon" evaluation on the rotating biological contactor (RBC) process at this small treatment plant in the Sierras. When the shaft of the existing RBC unit broke for the second time, the Association requested an evaluation of whether...
Oro Loma Sanitary District
Preliminary engineering report on a belt filter press facility to be constructed in an existing vacuum filter building. Because of the relatively large press capacity and difficulty of accessing the trucks that will haul the pressed cake away, consideration was given...
Modesto Dissolved Air Flotation Preliminary Design
Prepared a preliminary design of a dissolved air flotation facility to remove algae from storage pond water. The facility will allow the plant to discharge to the river in several months during which the algae create an unallowable total suspended solids concentration.
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...