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TETRATECH <br />Thomas L. Epperson, PE <br />Project Manager <br />Mr. Epperson has over 36 years of professional experience in <br />water, wastewater, and reclaimed water engineering. Mr, <br />Epperson has been responsible for the preparation of water, <br />wastewater, and reclaimed water master plans; project design <br />reports for various water, wastewater, and reclaimed water <br />facilities; and the planning and design of water, wastewater, and <br />reclaimed water pipelines, along with pump stations and <br />reservoirs. He Ines been responsible for completing the design, <br />bidding, and construction management of over 700 miles of <br />water/reclaimed water/sewer mains, 36 water/reclaimed water <br />pump.stations, 18 well -head facilities,12 sewer lift slat€ons and <br />25 water/reclaimed water storage reservoirs throughout Southern <br />California. <br />EXPERIENCE <br />Mid -Basin Injection; Centennial Park Design Services, <br />Orangs County Water District, Santa Ana, CA - Project <br />Manager responsible for the design of four Injection wells to be <br />located within Centennial Park in the City of Santa Ana for <br />Orange County Water District, In addition to -the engineering <br />services for the four injection wells, the project. includes the <br />design of the supply pipeline, backflush pipeline, bridge crossing, <br />two shared facility sites, a monitoring well site, site Improvements, <br />and paving of park access roads and parking lots. <br />Well No. 27, City of Orange, CA — Project Manager for the <br />drilling and equipping of Well 27, a new potable water well (930 <br />feet deep). The project involved the partial demolition of an <br />existing warehouse to accommodate the footprint of the new well, <br />Installation of a CMU block control building and sodium <br />hypochlorite building, 12.5% sodium hypochlorite disinfection <br />facility, sound enclosure around the well head, as well as, site <br />and landscaping Improvements, <br />Education; <br />9.6„ Environmental <br />Engineering, <br />University of California, Irvine, <br />1978 <br />Reglstratlons/Certificatlons; <br />Professional Engineer, <br />California, 1983, No. 36309 <br />Professional Affiliations: <br />American Water Works <br />Association <br />Orange County Water <br />Association <br />WateReuse Association <br />Americbn,Socraty of Civil <br />Engineers <br />Water Environment <br />Federation <br />Office; <br />Irvine, California <br />Years of Experience: <br />36 <br />Years with Tetra Tech: <br />25 <br />Well No. 29 and Elizabeth Reservoir and Booster Pump Station, City of South Gate — <br />Project Manager for the design and construction support for the drilling and equipping of a new <br />2,500 gpm well, sodium hypochlorite facilities, and generator at the well site and a 1.8 steel <br />reservoir, booster pump station consisting of three 125 hp pumps/motors at the reservoir site, <br />and about 5,000 feet of water main replacements within the City of South Gate. The project <br />combined the well drilling and well equipping phases of the work together. <br />Equipping Well No, 15 and Treatment Plant, City of Paramount, CA — Project Manager for <br />the design and construction support for a new bulk sodium hypochlorite and ammon€a chemical <br />delivery system at the City's new Welt 15. Design included the equipment for the well Including <br />the pump and motor, the discharge piping, and a manganese and future arsenic treatment <br />system. included within the facility were an arsenic manganese filtration system, backwash <br />tank, backwash recirculation pumps, sludge mixer pumps, sodium hypochlorite and ammonia <br />Page 1 <br />