April 19, 2005

Environmental Watch: Kennedy/Jenks opens Eugene office

Walz	Detweiler	Hazelhurst
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PORTLAND — A new office in Eugene, Ore., will let Kennedy/Jenks Consultants work more closely with clients in southern Oregon and northern California. The staff is made of people who have done work in these places, and focus on water and wastewater projects.

Ronald Walz has 16 years of experience in wastewater planning and treatment plant hydraulic design. John Detweiler has two dozen years of experience in design and construction of municipal and industrial water and wastewater projects.

Monty Hazlehurst does water and wastewater treatment plant projects. Gene Stevenson has 32 years of experience designing and drafting infrastructure projects in CAD. Charles Wright's experience is in design and construction management of wastewater facilities.

Brad Musick will help the Eugene staff from his base in nearby Corvallis, working with water and wastewater utilities.

Kennedy/Jenks is a San Francisco-based engineering and environmental consulting firm with 21 offices throughout the west.

Hosaka joins Landau in Tigard

Hosaka

EDMONDS — Landau Associates named Terry Hosaka manager of its Tigard, Ore., office. He will focus on technical, managerial and business development at the growing office. Hosaka managed the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality's cleanup and emergency response program, setting program policy and overseeing restoration projects.

He also oversaw environmental restoration as a project manager at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, run by the Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Edmonds-based Landau is an 80-person environmental, geotechnical and natural resources consulting services firm. It has offices in Tacoma and Spokane.

BBL adds staff in Seattle office

SEATTLE — Environmental consulting firm Blasland, Bouck & Lee added Barry Kellems to its Seattle office. The environmental engineer will focus on sediment and upland remediation, as well as stormwater and wastewater treatment systems.

With 20 years of experience, Kellems specializes in evaluating treatment technologies and putting them into practice. He has done engineering work at shipyards, tank farms and along rivers.

BBL says it has been adding staff steadily in the last three years to work on projects at ports and harbors. Kellems is project engineer for water treatment at an engineered containment facility to be built in Hamilton Harbour in Lake Ontario, Canada.

Helbrecht to manage Biodiversity Council

OLYMPIA — The Washington Biodiversity Council named Lynn Helbrecht as its new executive coordinator.

Helbrecht was at the Washington Department of Ecology as a senior environmental planner and was a sustainability coordinator in the Governor's Executive Policy Office. She represented Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington on the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable board of directors.

Helbrecht will manage the work of the Biodiversity Council, created last year by then Governor Gary Locke to promote conservation of Washington's biodiversity. The council is developing a 30-year plan to conserve biodiversity. Landowner incentives and public outreach could be part of that plan.

Biodiversity includes habitats, the ways species and habitats interact, and processes that support those interactions, the council says. Threats to biodiversity include habitat fragmentation, degradation and conversion, as well as global climate change and invasion of exotic plant and animal species.

Alt-fuel vehicle rally Saturday

SEATTLE — The city of Seattle will hold an event Saturday to show the public alternatives to gasoline-powered vehicles.

The Alternatively Fueled Vehicle Rally will be held at Magnuson Park, 7400 Sand Point Way N.E. from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Seattle Parks and Recreation and other city staff are sponsors.

On display will be electric cars, bicycles, trucks and natural gas-fueled vehicles from independent companies. Industry representatives will be able to answer questions.

Officials say in the central Puget Sound region about 60 percent of emissions that speed global warming comes from tailpipes. About 70 percent of toxic air pollution comes from diesel emissions from trucks, buses, ships, and other sources.

For more information, call the Discovery Park Environmental Learning Center at (206) 733-9434.

Sustainability conference in Seattle

SEATTLE — Forty Northwest-area sustainability experts will be in Seattle this weekend at a conference.

The event is offered by the Northwest Environmental Education Council and will be held April 22-24 at the Mountaineers Conference Center.

Speakers include Northwest Environmental Watch Executive Director Alan Durning, King County Executive Ron Sims and Puget Sound Action Team Director Brad Ack, documentary filmmaker John DeGraaf, author Cecile Andrews, and Bob Orenalas, former mayor of Arcata, Calif., and founder of Mad River Brewing.

Cost is $50 for a three-day pass or $20 per day. For more information, call Rachel Smith at (206) 762-1976 or rsmith@nweec.org.

EnviroExpo, conference in Boston

CHICAGO — The 17th annual EnviroExpo & Conference will be held May 3-4 in Boston. The conference theme is "Managing the Environment in the 21st Century" and it is targeted to environmental professionals in industry and government.

For information, contact Michael Scheibach, conference director, at mscheibach@zweigwhite.com or (816) 350-2049.