Adolfson Associates
Specialty: Planning, biological sciences, water resources
Management: Molly Adolfson, president; Lloyd Skinner, senior vice president
Founded: 1987
Headquarters: Seattle
2005 revenues: $4.3 million
Projected 2006 revenues: $5 million
Current projects: Updating the city of Tacoma’s shoreline master plan; EIS for the Columbia River Basin management program; project supervision for flood plain and estuarine restoration in the Qwuloolt Estuary
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Adolfson Associates is providing project supervision for flood plain and estuarine restoration in the Qwuloolt Estuary.
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Molly Adolfson’s firm has got a lot on its plate these days. “There’s a lot of development going on at every level,” she said. “Right now it’s a very busy time for consultants.”
It’s a real balancing act to meet client needs and regulatory demands at the same time, she said. “We just work with trying to be up to date on all the changing regulations.”
For instance, the state is revising its water quality standards to bring them in line with the federal Clean Water Act.
Adolfson Associates is spending a lot of time educating clients on what the revisions mean for wastewater and stormwater management.
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“As a result of increasingly stringent standards,” said Adolfson, “a lot of wastewater utilities are going toward upland disposal of their wastewater.”
A wastewater plan
The firm has several reclaimed water projects in the works, including one for the LOTT Alliance, which provides wastewater for 85,000 people in the South Sound. Adolfson & Associates is doing the environmental analysis for the alliance’s wastewater facilities plan, which includes building satellite treatment facilities that produce high-quality reclaimed water.
An estuary restoration
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Adolfson said she is excited about the Qwuloolt Estuary restoration project, which will restore a critical tidal wetland in the Snohomish River Estuary. The firm will be preparing all the permits, facilitating public meetings, doing hydrologic and hydraulic analysis, preparing the EIS and doing the preliminary design for the estuary. The firm is partnering with the Tulalip Tribes, the city of Marysville and several government agencies on the project.