Consulting Activities

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND CONSULTING ACTIVITIES

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Member, ASCE Committee on Geotechnical Reliability

Session Chair, ASCE Geo-Denver conference, February 2007.

ASCE Levee Assessment Team. In October, 2005, spent one week in New Orleans with ASCE, an NSF-sponsored team, and a Corps of Engineers’ team preparing a preliminary assessment of levee performance and failures. 22 person team provided a preliminary report which was furnished to the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security on November 1, 2005 (see publications page)

REVIEWS

I have provided paper and book reviews for

ASCE Journal of Geotechnical adn Geoenvironmental Engineering
ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering
ASEE Journal of Engineering Education
John Wiley and Sons
Prentice Hall

CONSULTING - CLIENTS AND SERVICES

John Berlin, Attorney, Cadillac, MI. Expert witness regarding groundwater rise and basement flooding due to ditch construction, 1992–1993.

Chesterfield-Monarch Levee District, St. Louis, MO, policy and criteria review regarding seepage berms design, 2001

Consumer's Energy Company, Jackson, MI. Design review of subdrainage system for power plant ash pond extension, 1993.

E. Czuprynski, Attorney, Bay City, MI. Expert witness on drowning below hydropower dam, 1989-92.

A. B. Dalimonte, Attorney, Lansing, MI. Expert witness on foundation performance of mobile home, 1989.

Fraser, Trebilcock, Davis and Foster, P.C., Ron Pentecost, Attorney, Expert advice on lawsuits regarding excessive settlement of foundations, 1993.

G2 Consulting Group, Troy, MI. Advice on design of riverfront retaining structures, 2002.

Geotechnology, Inc., St. Louis, MO.

Performance analysis of dewatering system, Melvin Price Lock and Dam, for U. S. Army Engineer District, St. Louis, 1986–87.
Investigation of dewatering system performance and cofferdam slope failure, Melvin Price Lock and Dam, for U.S. Army Engineer District, St. Louis, 1988.
Independent peer review and value engineering study for design of Mozingo Creek Dam, Maryville, MO, a 70 ft high USDA Soil Conservation Service dam on soft alluvium, 1990.

Knaggs, Harter, King, and O’Malley, Clifford Knaggs, Attorney,, Lansing, MI. Expert witness for lawsuit regarding method of payment for hauling hazardous waste contaminated soil, 1994.

David Landry, Attorney, Farmington MI. Expert witness on drowning below hydropower dam, 1993.

Dr. G. A. Leonards, West Lafayette, IN. Assisted in analysis of hotel collapse during earthquake, Loutraki, Greece, 1982

Timothy Mrozowski, Architect, East Lansing, MI. Preliminary foundation requirements for office building on peat, 1988–89.

NTH Consultants, Farmington Hills, MI. Advice on application of probabilistic methods for evaluating waste containment alternatives, 1987.

New Horizons, Inc., Jackson, MI. Advice on slope stability analysis for ash ponds, 1992

Ruman, Clements, Tobin and Holub, P.C., David Holub, Attorney, Hammond, IN. Expert witness on flooding due to breaching of embankment, Little Calumet River, Highland IN, 1995.

Smith, Haughey, Rice and Roegge, Jennifer Jordan, Attorney, Grand Rapids, MI. Expert witness for lawsuit involving soil and drainage conditions near residence, 1997.

Shannon and Wilson, Inc., St. Louis, MO.

Comprehensive study and report on Probability Models for Geotechnical Aspects of Navigation Structures prepared for St. Louis District, Corps of Engineers, 1993-94.
Advice on interpretation of piezometer and well flow data for Mississippi River levees in 1993 flood, 1994.
Two reports on application of probabilistic methods to geotechnical engineering problems (lifetime models and spatial correlation), prepared for St. Louis District, Corps of Engineers, 1996.
Preparation of Engineering Circular on Geotechnical Reliability Analysis, for Office, Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1997.

Sinas, Dramis, Brake, Boughton, McIntyre, and Reisig, P.C, Attorneys, Lansing, MI.

Expert witness in lawsuit regarding personal injury at dam spillway, 1995-1996
Review of other cases regarding dams, 2001

STS Consultants, Lansing, MI. Advice on finite element modeling of ash pond seepage, 1993

Kenneth Tableman, Attorney, Lansing, MI. Expert witness in lawsuit regarding construction payment quantities, 1992.

UAW Legal Services, Detroit, MI. Review of settlement problem at residence, 1991

URS Greiner – Woodward-Clyde Consultants.

Development of Corps of Engineers’ Guidelines for Geotechnical Reliability Analysis, 1998. ETL 1110-2-556
Board of Expert Consultants to Jacksonville District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for Review of Seepage Stability of Herbert Hoover Dike, 1998.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, member of expert panel for Workshop on Risk Assessment for Seepage and Piping in Dams and Foundations at Virginia Tech, March, 2000

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Interagency Project Review Team (IPET), internal review of draft report on Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans Levee Failures, 2006.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District. Application of reliability analysis to Herbert Hoover Dike, Lake Okechobee, FL, 1994 - 1997, several contracts.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District. Application of reliability analysis for Major Rehabilitation Report for Walter F. George Dam, Georgia, 1996-97.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England Division. Consulting and report review for Reliability Analysis of Hodges Village Dam, Massachusetts, 1995.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District. Independent Technical Reviewer for expert panel regarding seepage control and berm criteria for California levees, 2003.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District.

Preparation of technical report, expert testimony, and review of post-trial briefs for $4 million dollar claim regarding construction dewatering at Melvin Price Lock and Dam, 1989-90).
Application of reliability analysis to Lock and Dam No. 25, Mississippi River, Winfield, MO, 1992.
Application of reliability analysis to Lock and Dam No. 24, Mississippi River, Clarksville, MO, 1993
Review of Draft Appendix Engineering Circular (Reliability Analysis), 2002-03
Review of methodology for Reliability Analysis, 2003-05.

U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Geotechnical Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS.

Panel member for development of expert system on seepage control for dams, assisting Agapito and Associates, 1987.
Extension of computer program LEVEEMSU for analysis of three-layer foundation systems, for Geotechnical Laboratory, 1991.
Recommendations for improved numerical modeling of relief wells, 1991.
Member of expert panel (with M.E. Harr and J.M. Duncan) to review geotechnical time-reliability model for Upper Mississippi River Navigation Planning Study, 1995
Lecture at Levee Reliability Workshop, 2001

Kurt D. Yockey, Attorney, Detroit, MI. Review of lawsuit involving trench cave-in, June 1992.