January 2024
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
CENTRAL TEXAS WEAT PRESENTS
Plummer Associates: Perran Hutton, P.E. & Robert Adams, D.E., P.E.
Wastewater Treatment Expansion
This presentation discusses how the City of Marble Falls and Plummer Associates are meeting the unique requirements of wastewater treatment expansion and disposal, including utilizing an aerobic granular sludge process. Potentially a “first in Texas” technology, the design challenges and opportunities presented for moving the project from preliminary design to detailed plans.
***RESCHEDULED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER***
Thursday – January 18 at 6:00 pm
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Perran Hutton earned his bachelor’s and his master’s degree from the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom), with a focus on water resources and environmental engineering. Upon graduating he worked for Veolia Water in a variety of engineering roles, the latter focusing on wastewater treatment optimization as a process engineer in Edinburgh, Scotland. After a year with the Environment Agency he moved to the United States and started working for Plummer Associates in 2017. Working in the wastewater design team and obtaining his PE license. He has been part of several wastewater treatment master planning, preliminary engineering, and detailed design projects in Texas since.
Robert Adams is a Principal Engineer in the Austin office of Plummer Associates, with BS, M Eng., & D Eng. degrees from Texas A&M University. He has been assisting clients with solutions to water supply, quality, and environmental problems for over 30 years. He develops sustainable solutions by applying both natural and conventional treatment approaches for wastewater and biosolids. He has led a broad range of projects from water resources planning and conservation efforts to water quality planning and watershed management. Over the last 15 to 20 years Robert has primarily focused on wastewater treatment plant improvements.
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WEAT/TAWWA Creek Cleanup
January 20th, 2024, 9 am-12 pm
Join WEAT/TAWWA’s ongoing effort to cleanup the creek! Meet on January 20th at 9am at the Roller Derby at 2104 E. 51st St.
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CP&Y, Inc. dba STV Infrastructure is a wholly-owned subsidiary of STV Incorporated (STV). STV is an innovative and progressive full-service architectural and engineering firm. STV is an award-winning professional firm consistently ranking among the country’s top companies in transportation infrastructure, including rail, mass transit, highways and bridges; water; and social infrastructure, such as, healthcare, education and justice. This success is the direct result of our employees’ commitment to innovation and quality. With more than 40 offices throughout the United States and Canada, STV’s professional, technical and support personnel are client-focused and quality-driven. We provide a complete range of planning, engineering, architectural, environmental, and construction management services to transportation, infrastructure, design-build, institutional, commercial, energy, industrial, and military clients.
Hartwell Environmental Corporation represents leading manufacturers of water and wastewater treatment equipment used in municipal and industrial treatment facilities. Hartwell Environmental Corporation was founded in 1997. We have expanded from our headquarters in Houston to three branch offices in Austin and Arlington, TX and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Our expansion has allowed us to better serve the municipal and industrial facilities in the states of Texas and Oklahoma.
Environmental Improvements, Inc., established in 1966 is a Manufacturer’s Representative firm specializing in water and wastewater treatment. We represent a complete line of manufacturers capable of treating all variations of municipal water and wastewater applications. Coupled with our product service we have been providing treatment equipment and solutions in Texas for over forty-five years.
For more than 50 years, Kimley-Horn has been providing planning and engineering consulting services to clients nationwide. Kimley-Horn has 1,500 employees across Texas and more than 6,600 employees nationwide that provide water/wastewater engineering, transportation planning and engineering, aviation, community planning services, and site planning and design. Kimley-Horn’s long record of technical achievements is enhanced by our reputation for effective management and personal service. Our engineers, planners, urban designers, and landscape architects develop insightful solutions to deliver practical results that consistently exceed our clients’ expectations.
At Plummer, we truly believe that Water is Precious. As a result, our practice has been focused on the protection and development of water resources for our clients and their customers for 40 years. We are a firm of over 120 engineering and scientific professionals dedicated to planning and design of water infrastructure. Dedicated to water resources and environmental engineering, our firm balances sound engineering principles with innovative technology tailored to our clients’ needs. From initial project kick-off, through stringent QC review, to a completed project, our focus stays on developing cost-effective solutions for our clients. We are involved from project inception to implementation and every step in between. It is what we do every day, as opposed to what we do when we have that type of project. We are proud to be one of the top engineering firms in Texas and Louisiana (ENR TX&LA 2018). Because of our focus on water-related matters, our engineers and scientists have become recognized experts in their fields at the local, state, and national level. Our motto is “quality deliverables on schedule…without exception.”
HDR provides tailored, strategic wastewater solutions that are innovative, cost-effective and sustainable.
Historically, keeping wastewater and potable water separate was the pressing goal when designing water and sewer systems. Today, integrated planning is driving the future of one water.
Our advanced treatment professionals tackle the most complex projects with innovative yet practical applications of technology to collect, treat and renew water to meet the demands of today and tomorrow. We will partner with you to develop customized infrastructure management plans and assist in optimization to help you better manage assets, extend useful life and lower operating costs.
Hazen helps clients address water supply and water quality challenges with solutions tailored to deliver lasting benefits to the communities they serve.
More than anything else, Hazen and Sawyer’s reputation is founded on the superior technical work we provide to help clients meet their water quality and water supply goals.
Our focus on water prepares us to handle the exceptional challenges facing the industry: adapting to new regulations and changes in supply or demand, targeting stretched budgets for optimal ROI, developing resilience to drought, floods, severe storms, and wildfires, charting a course into the digital age, and much, much more.
Every community deserves safe, affordable drinking water and clean rivers and streams. That’s the mission Garver and our partnered utilities work toward every day. And every day, these utilities are faced with challenges of aging infrastructure, increasing water quality requirements, and concerns over funding.
Garver’s Water Team is uniquely built with client-focused, local teams that provide constant support, four design centers providing sophisticated design of all engineering disciplines, and a Water Technology Team comprised of national experts that can innovatively solve the most challenging water and wastewater quality concerns.
Whether it’s replacing aging infrastructure or designing new facilities, Garver will rise to the challenge. Even as our industry changes, one thing will remain the same—Garver’s dedication to delivering first-class client service to our communities.
WEAT CTS Officers
President
Sean Mason 512-646-2238 sean.mason@kimley-horn.com
President-Elect
Will Wehner 512-498-4976 william.wehner@hdrinc.com
Vice-President
Jenni Griesel 512-687-2193 jgriesel@plummer.com
Treasurer
Suparna Mukhopadhyay 512-452-5905 smukhopadhya@plummer.com
Secretary
Michelle Lacks 512-685-9759 mmlacks@garverusa.com
Section Rep
Chris Pasch 512-423-4285 cpasch@plummer.com
Past-President
John Marler 512-912-5188 John.Marler@hdrinc.com
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