Blake Anderson Consulting

 

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Blake P. Anderson, P.E

(714) 801-3931

Blake@BlakeAndersonConsulting.com


EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

 

Blake P. Anderson Consulting

President

November 2005 to Present

 

  1. As founder and President of Blake P. Anderson consulting, Mr. Anderson specializes in strategic planning and conflict resolution issues related to environmental public policy, water quality protection, and public infrastructure.

 

Orange County Sanitation District

General Manager

May 2000 to October 2005

 

  1. Overall responsibility for administrative, budget and planning activities of the agency.  Oversite of the operations and maintenance of the District, including 600 employees and nine departments of the third largest municipal wastewater treatment agency on the West Coast.  Set overall mission and primary objectives of the agency through consultation with staff, Board and community.  Assured that the agency was operating cost effectively, consistently in compliance with all regulatory mandates and achieving the objectives of the master plan.  Extraordinary relationships with business, environmental and regulatory communities.  Open management style.  Promoted environmental stewardship, shared leadership and business-like approach to decision making.  Reported to Board of Directors.  

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  3. Major accomplishments included initiating construction on the largest water reclamation plant in the United States, establishing dry weather urban runoff diversions into the Sanitation District’s regional sewage treatment system to control beach pollution, initiating upgrades of wastewater treatment quality to protect the ocean and human health, and raising user rates to appropriate levels to fund the operating and capital project needs of this proactive public agency.


 

Orange County Sanitation District

Chief Operations Officer

March 1995 to May 2000

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  2. In responsible charge of the 520 employees in the Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Technical Services Departments.  See Listings below for additional information.

 

Orange County Sanitation District

Interim General Manager

October 1994 to March 1995

 

  1. In responsible charge of 600 employees and six departments of the third largest municipal wastewater treatment agency on the west coast.  Reports to Boards of Directors.  Oversaw the operation, budget and planning of the agency.  Set overall mission and primary objectives of the agency through consultation with staff, Board and community.  Saw to it that the agency was operating cost effectively, consistently in compliance with all regulatory mandates and achieving the objectives of the master plan.

 

Orange County Sanitation District

Acting Director of Engineering

April 1994 to October 1994

 

  1. In responsible charge of 85 employees responsible for the planning, design and construction of wastewater conveyance, treatment and disposal facilities serving the domestic, commercial and industrial wastewater needs of 2 million people living and working in metropolitan Orange County, California.  Set objectives of construction program by consulting with other departments and by periodically re-evaluating the program objectives of the master plan.  As the chief engineer of the agency, reviewed, approved, and signed all final drawings.

 

Orange County Sanitation District

Director of Technical Services

1987 to April 1994

 

In responsible charge of 125 employees conducting the following:

 

  1. •The District’s Air Quality Division which monitored the Districts’ activities to assure compliance with regulations established by the EPA, SCAQMD and the California Air Resources Board.  This division conducted research and special studies involving air quality control technology.

  2. •The District’s Laboratory which provided analytical and technical support for the treatment plants, industrial source control program, environmental analysis and research projects.

  3. •The District’s Source Control Division which permitted, monitored and controlled the discharge of industrial and commercial wastewater to the publicly owned sewer system.

  4. •The District’s Compliance Division which oversaw the $2 million ocean monitoring program, conducted ocean research programs, oversaw the Districts’ miscellaneous environmental compliance programs and provides liaison with the California Regional Water Quality Control Board and the federal EPA.

  5. •The District’s Conservation, Reclamation and Reuse Division which issued contracts, coordinated with other public and private entities and monitored environmental regulations relating to water reclamation, biosolids reuse and water conservation, and which was responsible for conducting the programs and planning for these areas in accordance with the Districts’ 30 Year Master Plan.    

  6. •The District’s liaison activities with federal, state and local government agencies on legislative and regulatory issues and formation of new laws.

 

 

Orange County Sanitation District

Director of Operations

1980 to 1987

 

In responsible charge of 120 employees responsible for:

  1. •The District’s Operations Division which operated two wastewater treatment plants with a total combined flow of 230 mgd employing advanced primary treatment, partial secondary treatment, anaerobic sludge digestion and a four-mile deep ocean outfall.

  2. •The District’s Industrial Waste Division which regulated the discharge of industrial and commercial wastewater to the public sewer system.

  3. •The District’s Laboratory which conducted analyses to support the treatment plants, industrial waste division and environmental monitoring.

 

 

Neste, Brudin and Stone, Inc.

Manager of Operational Services

1978-1980

 

  1. In responsible charge of the operational and training support services group for southern California clients that were municipal wastewater treatment agencies.  Represented these agencies in formal presentations of technical information to regulatory agencies.  Marketed services for the company.

 

 

Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts

Operations Engineer, Evaluation Engineer, Project Engineer

1972 to 1978

 

  1. Performed a number of sanitary engineering responsibilities in three different departments.  Work included operations engineering at seven different wastewater treatment plants, the start-up of a tertiary treatment plant, project engineer for sewer sulfide control program, project engineer for trunkline and ocean monitoring and project engineer in regulatory reporting group.

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS

 

2006    Engineer of the Year, Orange County Branch, American Society of Civil Engineers

 

2006    Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award, Orange County Engineering Council

 

2006    National Environmental Achievement Award, National Association of Clean Water Agencies

 

1995-05    Co-Invented, co-promoted and co-oversaw the Groundwater Replenishment System (originally called “The Century Project”) with Bill Mills and then Virginia Grebbien, GMs of the Orange County Water District.  When completed in 2007, it will be the largest high quality water reclamation plant in the United States

 

2001-05    Founding Member and Co-creator, Orange County Leadership Symposium

 

2005    Board Member, California Association of Sanitary Agencies

 

2005-    Water Environment Federation, Nominating Committee Member

 

2005    President, Southern California Alliance of Publicly Owned Treatment Works

 

1996-05    Director, Southern California Alliance of Publicly Owned Treatment Works

 

2004    Community Leadership Award, Leadership Tomorrow of Costa Mesa and Newport Beach

 

2004-    Water Environment Federation, House of Delegates

 

2003-05    Executive Committee Member, Orange County Business Council

 

2004-05    Board Member, California Infrastructure Coalition

 

2003-05    President and Board Member, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Orange-San Bernardino-Riverside Chapter

 

2002    Oversaw the Orange County Sanitation District’s Actions to Upgrade to Secondary Treatment, Construct and Operate Effluent Disinfection, and Agree to Construct the Largest Water Reclamation Plant in the United States

 

2002    Committee Member, First Ever County Report Card on the Condition of Public Infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers, Orange County Business Council, University of California Irvine, and many others)

 

2002    Recognition Award, Santa Ana River Watershed Group

 

 

2001-02    Chairman, Manager’s Committee, California Association of Sanitary Agencies

 

2000-02    California Rebuild America Coalition, Treasurer and Founding Member

 

1997-02    Co-Chairman and Founding Member, Santa Ana River Watershed Group

 

 

1995-96    National Science Foundation, Committee on Comprehensive Watershed Management, Member and Co-Author of “New Strategies for America’s Watersheds”

 

 

1994-96    Court-Appointed Member, Orange County Investment Pool Bankruptcy Committee

 

1989-95    Director, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project

 

1992-95    Chairman, Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies (AMSA), Comprehensive Watershed Management Committee

 

1992-93    National Science Foundation, Committee on Wastewater Treatment for Coastal Urban Communities, Member and Co-Author of “Managing Wastewater in Coastal Urban Areas”

 

1993        President’s Award, Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies

 

1993        United States Congress, Environmental and Energy Study Institute, Invited Speaker

 

1993        Invited Testimony, United States Senate, Subcommittee on Clean Water, Fisheries and Wildlife

 

1992-93    Committee Member, State of California, Environmental Protection Agency, Comparative Risk Project

 

1992-93    West Coast Planning Committee Representative and Speaker, First National Conference on Watershed Management (Sponsored by EPA, NOAA, Dept. of Agriculture and others

 

1991        Invited Testimony, United States House of Representatives, Subcommittee of Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment, Subcommittee on Oceanography, Great Lakes and OCS

 

1991        National Workshop on Air Toxics in Wastewater Treatment Plants, Sponsored by US EPA and the Water Environment Federation, Planning Committee Member, Speaker

 

1991-94    Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Alternate Director

 

1990-91    Vice Chairman, Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies, Coastal and Marine Waters Committee

 

1989-91    Chairman, Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), Advisory Committee on POTW Compliance with the Air Quality Management Plan for the South Coast Air Quality Management District

 

1988-93    Committee Member, State of California, Multi-agency Task Force on Air Toxics in Wastewater Treatment Plants

 

1987-89    Co-Project Manager, Orange County Sanitation District’s 1989 Strategic Plan “2020 Vision”

 

1985    Elected to California Water Pollution Control Federation “Select Society of Sanitary Sludge Shovelers” (an honorary society for water pollution control professionals)

 

1976-87    California Water Pollution Control Association, Thirty various committee and special task assignments dealing with state conferences, voluntary certification programs, newsletters, directorships and speaking engagements.

 

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

1998    Kennedy School of Government

            Summer Program for Elected and Appointed Government Executives

 

1973-75    California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

                 California State University, Long Beach

                 Graduate course work in environmental engineering and business management

 

1968-72    California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

                  School of Civil Engineering

                  Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering with Sanitary Emphasis

                  Graduation with honors and named Outstanding Civil Engineering Student, 1972

 

1966-68    California State College, San Jose and Mt. San Antonio Community College

                 Schools of Aeronautics

                 Course work in aeronautical operations, commercial aviation and pilot training

 

 

 

 

 

REGISTRATION AND CERTIFICATION

 

State of California

Registered Civil Engineer

 

State of California

Certified Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator, Grade V (lapsed)

 

 

 

 

 

ORGANIZATIONS

 

American Society of Civil Engineers

Member

 

Water Environment Federation

Member

 

Tau Beta Pi

Engineering Honor Society

Life Member

 

Sierra Club

Member

 

Various motorcycling associations

An avid interest in long distance riding and rider safety