Sewage and Wastewater Systems
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...