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Since joining Kirkham Michael in February 2002, Neil has become the distribution engineer for Ellsworth County Rural Water District #1 (Post Rock RWD), which consists of a high service pump station, ten booster pump stations, fifty-nine pressure reducing valve sites, eleven flow control valves, eight system storage tanks, 9 community storage tanks, serving eight communities, serving three other rural water districts, serving parts of ten counties, and having 1250 miles main distribution lines, plus additional service lines. All add-ons and distribution system modifications are reviewed by using EPANET2 computer runs. Trying to keep the system operating is a real challenge. Neil has worked on the proposed new Metro State College of Denver, Auraria Campus, new dormitories, which are in the floodway fringe, by-pass flow area, of the South Platte River, just southwest of downtown Denver. The original FEMA-FIS data was prepared by Wright Water Engineers and modified for the construction of the PEPSI Center (Nuggets arena). The study results showed that the project could be built with zero rise in BFE elevation, and was supplied to the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District of Denver. Neil has designed a drainage system to relieve the flooding problems along the west side of Bopp Boulevard, in Lakin, Kansas, for Kearny County. A subdivision was constructed, along the west side of Bopp Blvd, in the Lakin Watershed District’s Floodway #4. Bopp Blvd would pond the storm runoff in the subdivision west of the road and surcharge the sanitary sewer, causing sewer backup in other parts of Lakin. About 120 acres, west of Bopp Blvd, was surveyed and tied to section corners. A hydrologic and hydraulic analysis was prepared for Sand Creek, to see if Sand Creek added to the flood problems. Floodway #4 was drained to Sand creek via a 54” RCP, with flap gate. If the flap gate was closed, the left (northeast) bank of Sand Creek was higher than the calculated 100-yr water surface elevation. Thus, Sand Creek would not break over the left bank. A second hydrologic and hydraulic analysis was prepared for the remaining drainage area of Bopp Blvd. This 100-yr discharge could be taken under the BNSF tracks, to Sand Creek at a lower WSE. Design has been completed. BNSF permit received. ROW was been purchased. Kirkham Michael – Ellsworth is one of three consulting firms, which provide NRCS – Kansas with design support on livestock waste management facilities. Presently Ellsworth has finished or is working on 24 NRCS Task Orders. Neil is a certified Technical Service Provider (TSP) for NRCS in Kansas, Colorado, and Iowa. Neil has also been involved with the Kansas City District, Corps of Engineers, Organizational Parking / Child Development Center design / build contract at Fort Riley, KS, with a local utility / paving contractor. KMA had a net profit of over $150,000 on a $400,000 design contact. Neil is involved with the operation plan and quality assurance plan on eleven landfill designs and permits in central and western Kansas. He was involved with the MSW closure of the Harvey County landfill, north of Wichita, and the design of sixteen methane gas wells and gas collection system at the landfill. With the help of the Phoenix office, Neil has completed the plans and bid an $820,000 construction contract for water and sewer system to the new ‘JACAM’ Chemical plant site and Kansas Ethanol site, south of Lyons, KS. Laid-off on 5 September 2008, for not accepting Labor Day as an UNPAID holiday. (While working with Kiowa County, Kansas, as C/D landfill engineer after the Greensburg, KS, tornado, Neil's wife of passed away. Neil gained 60 lbs and was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. About a year after his wife passed, his wife's mother passed. who he was power of attorney and executor. Then laid off.)

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Flood / Floodplain Engineer, Hydrology / Hydraulic Engineer, Water System Distribution Engr, Landfill Engineer, NRCS TSP Certified, Site Work and Utilities

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