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<br />FOSTER A. MCMASTERS, JR. <br />EDUCATION: <br />BS, Biological Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 1970 <br />REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER <br />CERTIFICATION: <br />40-Hour Value Engineering Workshop <br />PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: <br />Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry <br />National Society of Professional Engineers <br />Water Environment Federation <br />American Water Works Association <br />American Academy of Environmental Engineers <br />GENERAL BACKGROUND: <br />Project Personnel 5-3 <br />Mr. McMasters is a senior project manager with extensive experience in process and civil engineering <br />projects, including wastewater treatment and collection facilities, industrial wastewater facilities, water <br />treatment and distribution systems, coastal and marine facilities, shoreline protection and erosion control, <br />and site utilities. Qualified as a value engineering team leader and coordinator, Mr. McMasters has <br />participated in 13 VE workshops and served as a team leader for five of the workshops, which have <br />included advanced wastewater treatment, conveyance and detention projects, and a shoreline protection <br />project. <br />EXPERIENCE: <br />Wastewater Treatment <br />• Managed design and construction services to provide additional liquid sludge storage, new sludge <br />aeration blowers, and improved dechlorination and tertiary filtration for Mokena, Illinois. <br />Increased plant capacity to 1.65 mgd and evaluated the feasibility of increasing treatment capacity <br />to 6.5 mgd at the present site, in place of separate treatment plants. <br />• Conducted an odor mitigation study of centrifuge dewatered sludge from an 80-mgd wastewater <br />treatment facility in Yonkers, New York. Oversaw odor characterization, bench-scale <br />• Provided process and report reviews for copper removal studies at a wastewater treatment plant in <br />Leominster, Massachusetts. Managed an operations cost minimization evaluation, including <br />instrumentation and sludge disposal modifications. <br />• Provided process engineering assistance at wastewater treatment plants in West Haven, <br />Connecticut; Petaluma, California; and Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. <br />F.,??., n? ?.?_ ?-? g ???•Y? ? . ?.,??? . ?? . .,ar..? .