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Riley D. Evans
Managing Partner
Mr. Evans has an exemplary history in Planning, Design, Engineering and Construction Management. He has managed design and construction teams of Architects, Civil, Environmental, Structural and Geotechnical Engineers, Surveyors and Contractors for large Commercial Construction and Industrial Waste Water Facilities for Municipalities and Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and large commercial projects of 150 to 450 unit apartment complexes and senior care facilities, . These projects have included Wetlands, Shoreline Management, Natural Resource Planning Design Development, Hearing Representation, Land Use Entitlement, Permitting, Water Systems, Storm Water Runoff, Detention Systems, Sewer Pump Stations, Waste Water Systems, Electrical Power, Natural Gas, Communications, Road, Highway design and Construction. They have involved all areas of RCRA, NPDES, NEPA/SEPA, CERCLA, and MTCA issues. Mr. Evans was CEO of a Professional Architecture Engineering and Surveying firm for 12 years. He planned and implemented a long range strategic management and marketing plans to develop the firm from under 1 million dollars a year to well over forty million dollars a year in design and construction. He planned designed permitted and successfully completed (CRID #6) “Old Town Silverdale” Kitsap County Road Improvement District #6 with AES Consultants Inc. He managed an average of four to ten of AES Consultants largest projects each year and coordinated quality control of plans and specifications for all projects. Mr. Evans organized and developed minimum plans, specification and contract standards, negotiated consulting contracts and oversaw all aspects of business administration. He represented the majority of projects at all public meetings for City annexation entitlement and hearings. He has conducted area and regional meetings and negotiations with governmental agencies and concerned citizens groups. Mr. Evans has provided Initial Conception and Preliminary Planning for many of the projects he has worked on taking each project successfully from inception to completion. Mr. Evans has an extensive successful Engineering Design, Development and Construction history.
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JOSEPH D. LEYDA, P.W.S., M.A.
NATURAL RESOURCE DIVISION MANAGER
Mr. Leyda has considerable experience in natural resource consulting and planning, as well as implementation and completion of large scale projects. In addition to his extensive field and technical expertise, Mr. Leyda has served on the Building Industry Association of Whatcom County’s Shoreline Taskforce, an inter-disciplinary team including lawyers, realtors, contractors, and investment professionals. On the Shoreline Taskforce, Mr. Leyda analyzed and reviewed Bellingham and Whatcom County’s proposed Critical Area Ordinances and Shoreline Master Programs for workability and scientific accuracy. Those solutions were presented to the Bellingham Planning Department, Mayor, and City Council members in work sessions, public hearings, and private meetings. During Mr. Leyda’s past experience in both civil and structural engineering departments, he has worked with engineers, lawyers, and civil planners to integrate ecological concepts into Bellingham’s Urban Growth Area planning process. His work included analysis of best available science for mitigation ratio alternatives, examination of sprawl in Whatcom County, novel solutions to temporal loss of wetland functions, oligotrophic lake phosphorus dynamics, stormwater filtration system design, and regional water quality monitoring protocol design. As an engineering draftsman, Mr. Leyda is skilled at using AutoCAD. He easily works alongside of engineers from different teams, and his ability to exchange electronic drawings and his own original design content increases the efficiency of each project. He is adept at mapping wetlands from surveyed points, entering survey data (distance and angle), raster image scaling and drawing overlay, 3D modeling and rendering.
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GEORGE R. WEBSTER, P.E., D.E.E.
Senior Professional Environmental Engineer
Mr. George R. Webster has exceptionally distinguished himself as an Environmental Engineer who over the last forty years has been awarded two Bronze Medals for EPA program accomplishments in the development and promulgation of “Industrial Waste Treatment Guidelines”. These Awards were presented by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Mr. Webster was also appointed the US Representative to the OECD Environmental Committee in Paris, France for two years. As the US Representative, he authored numerous position “white” papers that formed the basis of International Environmental agreements on technology for environmental controls and standards and methods of industrial effluent treatments. As a Senior Environmental Engineer, he was appointed to EPA Headquarters, in Washington D.C. as a GS-15 first responsible for assisting in the development of unit operations for industrial and hazardous waste treatment techniques under the EPA Industrial Wastes Research and Development programs. He was promoted to the Director of the Industrial Branch of the Effluent Guideline Division of the Office of Water Quality Programs. With the assistance of many Consulting Engineering firms and personnel in ten Regional Offices of the EPA, he developed the database on which many of the Industrial Waste Regulations were promulgated. These programs also generated the data on which the Hazardous Waste RCRA Standards are based. Mr. Webster has designed systems from “closed loop”, zero-discharge air-water emissions systems for secondary aluminum smelters in Michigan, to the pulp and paper mill deep tank aeration waste treatment and combined primary/secondary sludge filtration systems for Weyerhaeuser Co. of Longview, Washington. Local project examples include the City of Seattle Parks Department, asbestos abatement projects for Piers 62 and 63, the Woodland Park Zoo, Evergreen Floral Building, the City of Everett, Everett Public Library, and City of Tacoma Bates Vocational Center. Mr. George R. Webster serves as Alkai Consultants Senior Environmental Professional Engineer, mentor and permit administrator. We are exceptionally pleased to be able to provide our clients and staff the wealth of his vast resources of knowledge and contacts.
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