Douglas B. McCartney PE, LS

2614 Jacaranda Avenue

Carlsbad, CA 92009

doug@dougmccartney.com

702-521-1037 CELL

760-633-2910 FAX

Civil Design Engineering - Project Management

Project Development…Design…Operations…Environmental …Water Resources

Proposals…Contracts…Budgets…Planning…Potable Water-Sewer-Storm Drainage Works

Thirty-four years of civil engineering experience in water resources, wastewater, treatment plant site engineering, transmission and distribution systems, resident engineering, highway design, commercial, industrial, and residential land development, property boundary legal analysis, and land surveying both field and office. Experience has been with consulting engineering firms at design and project management levels, and one year in a public agency. Projects have included pressure pipelines for potable water, sewage collectors, interceptors, force mains, storm runoff retention basins, storm drain systems, flood control facilities, resident engineering for pipeline construction, large and small land development, and boundary and construction surveying, for public and private clients. Particularly well experienced in preparation of improvement plans and specifications for pipelines and site development, hydrologic and hydraulic design, flood control projects including floodplain-floodway mapping and modification, and legal boundary analysis.

Professional Experience
Brown and Caldwell Environmental Engineers and Consultants – San Diego, Irvine CA Supervising Engineer	2001-Present
Inland Empire Utilities Agency – San Bernardino, California Project Manager	2000 – 2001
G. C. Wallace, Inc - Las Vegas, Nevada Project Manager	1996 - 2000
Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc. - San Diego, California Parsons Brinckerhoff Construction Services, Inc. - San Diego, California Supervising Engineer - Resident Engineer	1992 - 1996
JM Montgomery, Consulting Engineers, Inc. - Irvine, and San Diego, California Supervising Engineer	1988 - 1992
Neste Brudin and Stone, Inc. - San Diego, California Senior Engineer	1981 - 1988
Boyle Engineering Corporation - San Diego, California Associate Engineer	1972 - 1981
Education
San Diego State University, BS Civil Engineering	1974
Registration
Civil Engineer, California RCE 28085	1977
Land Surveyor, California LS 5478	1984

Project Experience

Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Design and Construction Project Experience

Miramar Potable Water Treatment Plant Upgrades 1974 - 1976, and 2001 - 2009, City of San Diego, Contract Documents: An upgrade in treatment capacity to 160 MGD and modernization of facilities in 1974, and an upgrade in capacity to 240 MGD in 2001. I performed hydraulic calculations for the entire flow stream in the 1974 upgrade using an original FORTRAN program, assisted in the civil site design, and in Specification writing. In 2002 I supervised all Civil site drawings and Specifications including pipeline alignments and profiles for 0.5” PVC through 120” AWWA C200 steel pipelines, road and site paving designs, and Civil layouts of retaining walls, gates, fences, conduits, parking lots, and the required ADA-compliant parking spaces and access routes on-site. I performed all AWWA M11 calculations for the various sized steel pipe using a self-authored spreadsheet. And I provided construction period support.

P2-90 Trickling Filter Project, 2006, Orange County Sanitation District, Contract Documents: An expansion of Plant 2 designed concurrently with the P2-66 project. I prepared the design of the PEDS facility that diverted secondary treated flow to the new filters. It was necessary to prepare a design a 108” pipeline that snaked across the site to the filters that was included in the design drawings for the P2-66 contract being prepared by another Consultant. I then also coordinated the connection of that pipeline to the PEDS facility when it was constructed subsequently in the P2-90 project.

Point Loma Waste Water Treatment Plant Outfall Penstock rehabilitation, 2005, City of San Diego, Resident Engineer, Specifications: The plant’s discharge to the ocean was diverted to the vortex-drop-structure while I arranged for a contractor to build full-access scaffolding in both of the plant’s penstocks; one flows to the ocean directly and the other conveys flow through a hydro-electric generating station prior to discharging to the ocean. I had a radiographic specialist measure interior lining thickness and steel wall thicknesses remaining and recommended areas and methods of repair for locations where either the base steel or the high-build-epoxy lining worn thin. City staff performed the physical work for the recommended repairs themselves.

Lompoc Regional Waste Water Reclamation Plant Upgrades, 2006, Contract Documents: An expansion of a plant originally built in the 1970’s that included a new trickling filter structure requiring ten acres of land mapped by FEMA as a floodway. I processed the floodway modification successfully despite FEMA’s loss of all records for the area including documentation of their approval of the plant’s levee system. I did all site engineering and supervised the drawing preparation for yard piping, storm drainage, conduit routing, grading, paving, and all related Specifications.

Moorpark Waste Water Reclamation Plant 5.0 MGD Expansion, 2004, Contract Documents: An expansion of treatment capacity and re-arrangement of drying beds, site drainage modifications. I did all Civil engineering and supervised drawing preparation for the site layout, yard piping, associated details, survey control, and all related Specifications.

Hale Avenue Waste Water Treatment Plant Upgrades, 1982, City of Escondido, Contract Documents: An expansion of the treatment capacity and updating of the treatment processes to meet then-current regulatory requirements for live-stream discharge. I assisted in doing the process calculations, civil site design, yard piping layout and vertical design, and specification writing.

Amman Jordan Water Treatment Plant, 1978, Contract Documents: A new plant funded by USAID, built for the Jordan Valley Authority of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. I prepared the civil site plan, performed hydraulic flow calculations for the entire flow stream, and with the assistance of a research scientist from UCSD specified the purchase and installation of a full set of scientific equipment for the plant’s entirely new laboratory and the design of the lab itself.

Poway Water Treatment Plant Upgrades, 1976-1978, City of Poway, Contract Documents: An upgrade for increased capacity and modernization. I performed the hydraulic flow calculations, and assisted with the site design and the Specifications.

Water and Sewer Pipeline Study, Design, and Construction Project Experience

Ground Water Recharge Pipeline, Orange County Sanitation District, 2001 through 2007, Contract Documents: A fourteen-mile facility of AWWA C200 steel pipelines varying in size from 60-inch to 78-inch. The Project was divided into three segments, with one of the segments being assigned to another Consultant. I prepared the documents for two of the segments that included fifteen tunnels beneath streets, three tunnels beneath CALTRANS freeways, a bikeway detour coordinated with the Orange County Bicycle Coalition, landscaping demolition and re-establishment coordinated with the County of Orange’s Beaches and Harbors staff and the Parkland administrators of the City of Santa Ana, processing of Encroachment Permits through CALTRANS, a crossing of the Metrolink tracks in Santa Ana and the necessary license agreement, coordinated construction activities on the Orange County Sheriff’s evidence storage yard, and attended public meetings to assist the District with their public information program. I provided construction period support throughout construction and assisted the District in successfully claiming reimbursement for damage to the pipeline caused by a highway construction contractor; I also designed the repair for the damage that occurred.

Santa Ana Regional Interceptor Replacement, Orange County Sanitation District, 2002 – 2006, Design Study: In 1999 the citizens of Yorba Linda blocked finalization of previously approved improvement plans for a four-mile reach of the Santa Ana Interceptor Sewer’s realignment to an easement through their City; the existing interceptor lays in the bottom of the Santa Ana River, was installed in the 1960’s, and is subject to destruction by a major flood event in the river. I prepared an analysis of several alternative realignments outside the limits of the City and developed an analysis of the feasibility of each. The apparent-winner alternative was developed in both 40-scale plan and profile, included a siphon crossing of the Santa Ana River as an alternate to a deeper tunneled option on the same horizontal alignment, and laid out the connections to the existing SARI pipeline at both ends. Dr. Howard Chang’s Fluvial analysis program provided a movable streambed evaluation to the study; it also determined the depth of the siphon reach. I used the HEC2 program to evaluate the effects of the various alternatives on the FEMA approved Floodway in the river. The study was reviewed and approved by the CORPS. The apparent-winner alternative with the siphon option was selected and is scheduled for construction pending final approval by the EPA and the CORPS.

Santa Ana River Trunk Sewer, 2007- 2008, City of Riverside, Contract Documents: A four-mile 48-inch gravity sewer designed to replace an existing pair of decade-old sewers. I developed the connection strategies at each end of the project, the crossing of the UP railroad, and methods to avoid numerous other conflicts and to connect to existing trunks that connected to the existing pipelines. I developed the hydraulic design, processed permits, and helped the City evaluate the right-of-way modifications necessary for the new pipeline.

Point Loma Tunnel Outfall, Clean Water Program, 1994 – 1996, Contract Documents (not constructed to date): An eighteen-mile tunneled facility that was proposed to convey waste water from a location in the Old Town area of San Diego to a discharge point five miles off-shore from the Point Loma Waste Water Treatment Plant. I performed the Civil site design, coordinated the project control surveys, developed the design of the tunnel’s alignment, and prepared the necessary right-of-way legal descriptions and mapping. The site work included two tunneling access areas: clearing and post-construction restoration. The surveys performed included supervision of both aerial and ground control work performed by two sub-consultants. The right-of-way documents included descriptions on public, private, State, and Federal lands with supporting mapping for the individual conveyances and a Record of Survey map to illustrate the easements and the tunnel’s alignment.

Lower Otay Pipeline, San Diego County Water Authority, San Diego, 1992-1994, Resident Engineer: A seven-mile AWWA C200 72” steel pipeline that extends from the Sweetwater Reservoir area to the South Bay area of San Diego. I was responsible for organizing the field and in-plant inspection teams at Northwest Pipe’s plant in Adelanto; the plant inspection team provided 24-hour inspection services. I supervised a team of twenty inspectors at the peak of the work. I also provided interpretations of the Specifications and Drawings, resolved field problems in coordination with the Design Engineer, and arranged all testing services. I also coordinated a field surveyor’s work that included resolving numerous boundary line issues that hadn’t been anticipated during design. At one critical point during the progress of the work I reviewed the pending metrological conditions with the County of San Diego Meteorologist, the unusually high level of the Sweetwater Reservoir, and made a judgment call, based on my knowledge of the Sweetwater drainage basin from a study I had done many years earlier, ordering the Contractor to secure the work site and remove all of his equipment from the stream bed of the Sweetwater River despite the advice of the Sweetwater Authority that overtopping of the Sweetwater Dam wasn’t expected for about a week. After a 100+ year event rainfall that evening the dam overtopped at 1AM and when we arrived at the job in the morning the river was flowing at 10,000 CFS and the Client’s pipeline and all of the Contractor’s equipment was safe and the resultant schedule delay was only a few days.

Pipeline 6, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, San Diego, 1990-1992, Design Study: A predesign report for the proposed Pipeline 6 of the San Diego Aqueduct system that extends from the Diamond Valley Lake storage reservoir in Riverside County to the metropolitan areas of San Diego County. I developed a set of possible alternative alignments for the reach of Pipeline 6 between Riverside County and the San Luis Rey River that is about half way to San Diego. I walked each of the alignments and researched the existing ownership of each routes’ lands. I identified portions that were held in public, private, and Tribal ownerships. I met with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to discuss the routes that affected them; CALTRANS regarding the crossings of their alignments; and, the County of San Diego regarding the portions lying in public roads. I obtained documentation that verified the availability of each of the routes’ lands and identified where purchases of land would be necessary. During the course of this research I identified a public highway that had questionable title authenticity that disqualified the alternate alignment using it due to the sensitivity of that title.

North Metro Interceptor Trunk Sewer, City of San Diego, 1989-1991, Design Study: The North Metro Interceptor Sewer conveys raw sewage from the Old Town area of San Diego to Pump Station 2 adjacent to Lindbergh Field Airport. I performed an evaluation of the 1960 vintage existing pipeline’s condition; found it to be severely corroded; and developed a replacement plan for it’s entire six-mile length. The study was complicated by existing conditions along it’s alignment: reaches of the pipeline pass through highly developed commercial areas, areas with contaminated soils, and areas populated by the endangered 3 ounce least Turn birds that have a preference for nesting in dangerous areas – in this case the departure end of Lindbergh Field’s main jet service runway. The upstream end of the project was the terminus of several other pipelines so I reviewed the design requirements of each and developed the North Metro’s design to accommodate to accommodate them. Under an emergency extra-work request from the City of San Diego I arranged for internal inspection of the pipeline by a team of engineer-divers who found the environment so unfriendly that their video cameras intended for such service failed. The alignment included crossings of two of CALTRANS’ alignments including close proximity to freeway bridge foundations, and a crossing of the San Diego River that had been mapped by FEMA as a floodway.

Water Resources Project Experience

Penmar Storm Drainage Diversion Pump Station, City of Los Angeles, 2008-2009, Contract Documents: The Penmar Water Quality Improvement Project added a low-flow diversion structure to a double 12’ by 9’ box culvert built in the 1950’s in the Venice area. The diverted low-flows were collected in a pump station forebay and pumped as needed to a storage reservoir. I prepared the site design for the pump station and diversion structure, and coordinated the work of multiple sub-contractor Engineers that provided pipeline and reservoir design services to the project. I prepared design calculations that included an HEC2 analysis of the effects the necessary diversion weir had on the flow stream during large storm drainage events, and processed the drawings for approval.

Storm Water Bio-Filtration Basin with GSRD for SR-73, CALTRANS, 2005, Contract Documents: An upgrade to an existing retention basin to add a GSRD and bio-filtration. I prepared the improvement drawings that included: re-grading of the old basin; installation of a geo-textile liner and underdrain system; a new layer of topsoil to provide rooting for vegetative lining growth; influent and discharge flumes; associated piping; irrigation; seeding specifications; and site paving. I provided construction period support including personally spreading the costly native-growth seed for the lining vegetation. Being an experimentally designed basin the initial runoff flows caused damage to the GSRD so I re-designed it and supervised the construction of a new support system based on interlocking timbers, geotextile fabric, and crushed rock as seen in this illustration; the re-designed GSRD has functioned flawlessly for years.

Inland Empire Utilities Agency, San Bernardino, 2000-2001, Public Agency Employment: As a staff engineer for the Agency I developed CIP descriptions and budgets for work involving both new and rehabilitated pipeline and pumping facilities. Using funds provided by a State grant for energy conversation oriented projects specified and oversaw the installation of high-efficiency replacement pump motors for the entire influent pumping facility at an Agency plant.

Clean Water Program, City of San Diego, 1986-1989, Design Study: A master planning program to organize several hundred square miles of contributing sewage areas of the City, and adjoining communities that resulted in recommendations for several new treatment plants, and over fifty miles of new and replacement pipelines varying in size from 48-inch through 144-inch diameter that will serve as the backbone of the City’s sewer system through 2050. The project predates the City’s involvement in GIS so I developed a FORTRAN computer to computer-model the entire existing backbone pipeline system shown in the City’s heritage-mapping that included flow projections through 2050 for all existing and proposed facilities. Using the results of the model the team evaluated where new facilities were needed, the size of the facility, and construction phasing necessary to meet the requirements of projected sewage flows. I also supervised CADD preparation and offset-press printing of the mapping needed to illustrate the results of the modeling study.

Floodway Realignment and River Channelization, City of Hemet, 1982, Contract Documents: A FEMA mapped river’s natural alignment through the City of Hemet, CA conflicted with planned development. I prepared a re-design of five miles of the river’s floodway using the HEC2 program moving it a half-mile southerly to an alignment adjacent to the Domenigoni Parkway and processed it for approval through both the County of Riverside and FEMA. The re-mapping effort I performed was the first such work performed in Riverside County and it was necessary for me to assist the County Flood Control Department in both understanding the need for the work and in processing it through FEMA.

Flood Damage Inspection, FEMA, 1995-1996, Inspection Reports: Flooding in the rainy season of 1994-1995 was declared a Federal Disaster by the Governor and FEMA provided disaster assistance to affected communities and private individuals. The disaster relief programs I worked on were DR-1044-CA and DR-1046-CA. Working with a representative of California’s Office of Emergency Services I field reviewed and prepared written documentation of the damage that occurred to public agencies in the Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego Counties.

Resident Engineering Pipeline Construction: I performed Resident Engineer duties for a two-mile long 12-inch diameter AC pipeline in 8^th Street, Chula Vista for the Sweetwater Authority (1985), and four miles of 12-inch diameter steel pipeline for the Fallbrook PUD (1987). I was an assistant Resident Engineer for the 144” Diemer Pipeline in 1979.

Olivenhain Municipal Water District Water System Analysis, including numerous other public, and private, systems including the City of Mexicali, Mexico, 1974 – 1980, District Engineer: Using propriety software for network analysis I developed complete computer models for residential and commercial water distribution pressure pipe networks. I evaluated the effects of new development, retirement of facilities, adding new transmission facilities, and the response of the networks to large fire hydrant flows.

Land Development Project Experience

Commercial Land Development Consulting for Howard Hughes Corporation, Las Vegas, NV 1996 - 2000: Prior to the dissolution of the Howard Hughes Corporation in 2000 I provided engineering services for their commercial development division in Las Vegas, NV who developed over 1,000 acres of land. I coordinating for them my employer’s services for land surveying, land division mapping, legal description preparation for conveyances, and I provided consulting services to assist them in making land division and development decisions.

Residential and Commercial Land Development, San Diego, San Bernardino Counties of California, 1980-1996, Land Surveying, Sub-Division Mapping, Land and Street Improvement Drawings: I performed land division processing, boundary surveying, legal description preparation, improvement drawings for associated water lines and roads, hydrologic and hydraulic design, development consulting services to land owners, and all of these functions for myself on land that I personally owned.

Memberships Publications

American Society of Civil Engineers

American Water Works Association

“Curved Sewers: Yes or No,” Civil Engineering Magazine, February 1984