B.S. - Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University 1959
Biographical Data
DAVIS L. FORD, Ph.D.
Personal Data
Date of Birth: 18 May 1937
Education
B.S. - Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University 1959
M.S. - Environmental Health Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin 1964
Ph.D. - Environmental Health Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin 1967
Professional Affiliations
International Association of Water Pollution Research
National/Texas Society of Professional Engineers
Water Pollution Control Federation
American Society of Civil Engineers
American Society of Civil Engineers (Texas Section)
Registered Professional Engineer (Arkansas No. 3856, Colorado No. 11171,Georgia No. 9335, Idaho No. 2545, Illinois No. 62-30775, Louisiana No. 12656, New Jersey No. 17767R, New Mexico No. 5261, Oklahoma No. 9231, Pennsylvania No. 22695-E, Tennessee No. 8788, Texas No. 24326) (some not current)
Engineering Accreditation Commission, Accreditation of University
Level Colleges of Engineering
Honorary Affiliations
Sigma Xi
Tau Beta Pi
Chi Epsilon
Phi Kappa Phi
Marine Board, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council
Environmental Engineering Committee of the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Distinguished Engineering Alumnus, Texas A&M University, 1985
President - 130,000 member Texas A&M Alumni Association of Former Students, National and International, 1985
Chairman - Water Pollution Control Federation Program Committee, 1986-1989
Distinguished Alumnus - Texas A&M University, 1990
Chairman - President’s Advisory Council, Texas A&M University, 1991 to present
American Academy of Environmental Engineers Kappe Endowed Lecturer, 1994
Distinguished Engineering Graduate, University of Texas at Austin, 1995
President - American Academy of Environmental Engineers
Chrmn., Ethics Committee - American Academy of Environmental Engineers
National Academy of Engineering
Distinguished Civil Engineering Graduate, Texas A&M University, 2000
Inducted into the Civil and Architectural Engineering Academy of Distinguished Graduates,
University of Texas at Austin, November 2003
Lifetime Achievement Award, Water Environment Federation, 2009
Experience Record
1985 - DateDavis L. Ford & Associates, President
Project List
Government of Denmark - consultation for a $10 million water quality improvement program - water quality management and nutrient removal
City of Austin - Special Project Manager for $300 million improvement project, wastewater treatment and sludge management
City of Austin - Special Project Manager for Water Treatment Plant No. IV - City of Austin and Lower Colorado River Authority Joint Venture
Alyeska Pipeline - environmental consultant for 15 mgd ballast water treatment facility, Valdez, Alaska
Mobil Pipe Line Co. - environmental consulting for Cook Inlet Pipe Line Co. issues, Anchorage, Alaska
B.F. Goodrich - consultant on plant start-up and environmental enhancement programs
DuPont - Consultant on wastewater treatment projects - Sabine River Works and Victoria Plants
Rohm & Haas - environmental consultant for water quality improvement program
Shell Chemical Co., - environmental consultant - hazardous wastes control programs
Sun Refining & Marketing Co. - Tulsa, Oklahoma - operator training courses and consultation
International Paper Co. - Ticonderoga, New York, and Jay, Maine - operator training courses and consultation
C.H. Dexter Division - Windsor Locks, Connecticut - process design wastewater treatment system
Winstead, McGuire, Sechrest & Minick - expert witness
Rath & Young - expert witness
Baker & Botts - site remediation - hazardous waste
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld - expert witness
Dixie Chemical Co. - consultant on aeration systems
ARCO - consultant on refinery environmental projects
Chevron - consultant on refinery environmental projects
Village of Lakeway - expert witness on water treatment facilities
VanSickle, Mikelson & Klein, Inc. - expert witness on wastewater treatment facilities
McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore - environmental audits
Exxon - consultant on environmental projects - expert witness
Monsanto - consultant on environmental projects
Goldman & Antonetti - consultant for Yabacoa Sun Oil Co., Puerto Rico
Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease - consultant for Toledo Refinery, Sun Refining & Marketing Co.
Olwine, Connelly, Chase, O’Donnell & Weyher - consultant for G.E.
Anderson, Baker, Kill & Olick - disputes on hazardous sites, sanitary landfills
City of Fort Worth - POTW Issues
Koch Refinery Company - operator training and in-plant control issues
Anderson, Baker, Kill & Olick - Textron Industries
Vinson & Elkins - Texas Eastern Gas Transmission Co.
Vinson & Elkins - Chem Waste Management
Formosa Plastics, Point Comfort, Texas - process design of wastewater treatment facilities - $1.5 billion olefin complex
Trinity River Authority/City of Dallas/City of Ft. Worth - Compact
Holme Roberts & Owen - Rocky Mt. Arsenal - legal issues
Covington & Burling - Panhandle Eastern Gas Transmission Co. - legal issues
French Ltd. Task Group, Inc. - Superfund cleanup - in association with RETEC, Inc.
LL&E Petroleum Marketing, Inc. - process design issues
United Refining Co. - legal issues
Stolt-Nielsen - chemical storage & terminal environmental issues
Baker Performance Chemicals, Inc. - environmental process engineering issues
Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine - Chemical Leaman, Inc. - legal issues
Davis & Shank/Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority - legal issues
Phillips Petroleum Co. - process design issues
Trust, Sheridan Superfund Site, Hempstead, Texas
Exxon USA, Baker & Botts, legal issues
Valmont Industries (Brenham)
Colt Industries
Bird Machine Co. - Butler & Binion, litigation
Esmark-Pennaco - Brunini, Grantham (Granada, Miss.)
Levine Fricke - process engineering
Dupont/Advent - process engineering
Valero Refinery (Corpus Christi)
Rollins/Espey, Huston & Assocs. - process engineering
Combustion Site/Akin, Gump
Pride Refinery (Abilene) - process engineering
Owens Illinois (Orange) - site cleanup issues
Elf Atochem (Bryan) - engineering issues
Monsanto/Anderson, Kill, Olick & Oshinsky - litigation
French Superfund Site Litigation/Mayor, Day
Eurecat U.S., Inc./Vinson & Elkins - environmental cleanup
Brio Superfund Site, Texas - litigation
Coors/Anderson, Kill, Olick & Oshinsky - technical issues, sanitary landfills, co-disposal
Kalama Chemical Company - litigation
Coors/Vinson & Elkins - litigation
Formosa Plastics Corporation - technical issues and
Chairman, Technical Review Commission
FMC/Kirkland & Ellis - litigation
Snyder General/Caolo, Meier & Jones - litigation
U.S. Dept. of Justice - Randolph AFB - litigation
Zelle & Larson/Watersbend Partners, Ltd. - sanitary landfill issues
Alamodome - San Antonio/ Butler & Binion - environmental issues, sanitary landfills, co-disposal
Syntex/Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe - environmental issues
Motorola/Kirkland & Ellis - environmental issues
Tenneco/Fulbright Jaworski - environmental issues
Union Carbide/Lowenstein, Sandler, Kohl, Fisher & Boylan -
environmental issues
BFI/Butler & Binion - industrial practice issues
Goodyear, Beaumont - toxicity reduction evaluation issues
Sun/Marcus Hook & Philadelphia Refineries - regulatory and engineering issues
PPG Industries, Lake Charles, La. - environmental issues
ConAgra/McGrath, North - litigation
Southland Corporation/Strasburger & Price - arbitration
Dravo/Reed, Smith, Shaw - litigation
U.S. Dept. of Justice/Reese AFB - litigation
Intercity Products/Anderson, Kill - legal and technical issues
Allied Signal/Vinson & Elkins - legal and technical issues
Arco-Chevron/Mayor, Day - legal issues
CDM (City of Detroit)/Cooper, Fink - arbitration
U.S. Dept. of Justice/Walker AFB - litigation
Fina/Vinson & Elkins - technical issues and litigation
U.S. Dept. of Justice/TransOK Pipeline - technical issues and litigation
G.E./Buzby Site/Mayer, Brown & Platt - allocation of remediation cost issues
City of Corpus Christi, Texas - desalination and cost optimization studies
Cross Refinery, Arkansas - process engineering, water quality improvement project
Allied Signal - cleanup allocation issues
FMC/Connolly Epstein Chicco Foxman Engelmyer & Ewing - litigation issues
Woodward Clyde, New Jersey - process engineering oversight, groundwater remediation issues
CITGO Petroleum Corporation/Lake Charles, La. - solid waste dispute
Hoboken-Union City-Weehawken Sewerage Authority/Leanza & Agrapidis - contractor-owner dispute
Occidental Chemical Corporation - operational nitrification control
City of Corsicana/Brown McCarroll & Oaks Hartline - permit application issues
Fina Superfund Site/El Dorado, Ks. - technical review of remediation practices
Enserch/Dallas, Tx. - legal issues
Unisys/McKenna & Cuneo - environmental practice issues
Western Waste Industries/Texarkana, Ark. - sanitary landfill issues
Hercules Incorporated/Jacksonville, Ark. - environmental legal issues
Sinclair Oil Corp./Salt Lake City, Ut.- allocation issues
U.S. Dept. of Justice/Kelly AFB - legal issues
Union Pacific (Champion Refining Co.) - legal issues
Ormet Aluminum Co./Kirkpatrick & Lockhart - legal issues
Fina Oil and Chemical Company, Port Arthur Refinery - cost allocation
Iowa Beef Processors - cost allocation
U.S. Dept. of Justice/Navajo Refining Co. - legal issues
Lockheed - legal issues
Dresser Industries - legal issues
General Dynamics/McDonnell Douglas - legal issues
Petroleum Helicopters, Inc. - remediation issues
PPG Industries, Lake Charles, La. - legal issues
City of Corpus Christi - water allocation and treatment
B.F. Goodrich, Calvert City, Ky. - legal issues
Southern Pacific/Union Pacific, Sacramento, Ca. - legal issues
Texas Instruments/Raytheon - legal issues
U. S. Dept. of Justice/Ft. Riley, Kansas - legal issues
Chevron - service station issues
Pacific Gas & Electric - legal issues
Formosa Plastics Corp. - wastewater treatment plant optimization, expansion and permitting issues
Thiokol Corp. - legal issues
McDonnell-Douglas - legal issues
U.S. Dept. of Justice/El Paso, Texas - legal issues
Exxon - legal issues
Safety-Kleen Envirosystems - legal issues
Southern California Gas Co. - legal issues
Marathon-Ashland Oil Co./Catlettsburg Refinery - process engr. review
Marathon-Ashland Oil Co./Robinson Refinery - NESHAPS issues
Amber Refining - legal issues
Dow Chemical Co. - Woodard Hall & Primm - legal issues
Puerto Rico, Advisory Council - selected pharmaceutical firms - McConnell Valdes - general consultation, legal issues
Dixie Chemical Co. - Baker & Botts - allocation issues
Hydro Conduit Corporation/Strasburger & Price - legal issues
American Car Foundry/McKenna & Cuneo - legal issues
ARCO/Connelly, Baker, Wotring & Jackson - allocation issues
Ingersoll-Rand/Schlage/Davis, Graham & Stubbs - legal issues
Department of Justice/Naval Surface Warfare Center - legal issues
Department of Justice/Lowry AFB - legal issues
1976-DateAdjunct Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
1968-1985Engineering-Science, Inc. Division Vice President and Member of Board of Directors (1972-1985). Responsible for administration and conduct of civil, sanitary and environmental health engineering projects. Projects have included all industrial projects and various municipal projects in the west Texas/New Mexico area, with specific experience in design of municipal wastewater collection systems and treatment facilities. This experience also includes participation in the design of biological and physical/chemical treatment facilities throughout the United States and South America.
Consultant for over 150 industries, United Nations (WHO and PAHO), U.S. Government (Environmental Protection Agency), various state agencies and municipalities, and the governments of Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Portugal, Poland, Morocco, and Tunisia.
Project Manager (1968-1972) on administration and conduct of civil, sanitary and environmental health engineering projects. Specific projects include:
Reichhold Chemicals, Inc., Houston, Texas. Conducted preliminary treatability study.
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. Conducted state of the art (petrochemical) and followed up with treatability study.
Northern Natural Gas, Joliet, Illinois. Preliminary design for conversion of existing aerated lagoon to extended aeration system.
Aluminum Company of America, Point Comfort, Texas. Conducted biological treatability study.
Delaware River Basin Commission, Trenton, New Jersey. Project Engineer for biological waste treatment pilot plant serving nine industries.
Fluor Western, Inc., Houston, Texas. Consultant to prime contractor for preliminary design of biological treatment facilities.
Tyler Pipe Industries, Tyler, Texas. Consultant to Tyler Pipe in their overall pollution control program.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Houston Synthetic Rubber Plant, Houston, Texas. Consultant to Goodyear Houston in their overall pollution control program.
Suntide Refining Co., Corpus Christi, Texas. Project Director of wastewater survey, treatability study, preliminary and final design and construction of treatment facilities.
Friendswood Development Company, Houston, Texas. Project Director of study to determine optimum cost allocation to all user industries of joint wastewater treatment facility.
1966-1968Center for Research in Water Resources, the University of Texas, Austin, Texas. Assistant Director. Supervision and administration of University sponsored research programs related to water resources - industrial, state and federal; preparation of research programs and reports for industry in conjunction with pollution control programs; general administrative and budgeting matters.
1961-1963Hasie and Green & Associates, Consulting Engineers, Lubbock, Texas. Civil Engineer.
1960-1961U.S. Corps of Engineers. Fort Worth District. Civil Engineer on design of dams and supervision of construction; cost estimating; general surveys; supervision of construction; Atlas Missile facilities; and specification writing.
1956-1959Hasie and Green & Associates, Consulting Engineers, Lubbock, Texas. Civil Engineer (student) on design of wastewater treatment systems; master planning; water quality studies; comprehensive fallout shelter surveys; design and construction and runways for U.S.A.F. and storm drainage studies.
Teaching Experience
Environmental Engineering Short Courses:
Manufacturing Chemist Association
Title I, Higher Education Act (1967-1970)
Environmental Engineering Training Courses:
Water Pollution Control, six-week course, Warsaw, Poland (1967)
Environmental Engineering Graduate Classes, The University of Texas at Austin
Environmental Engineering Laboratory Short Course, University del Valle, Cali, Columbia (1969)
Water Pollution Control, two-week course, Wroclaw, Poland (1969)
Environmental Engineering Short Course on Water Pollution Control, Maracaibo, Venezuela (1969)
Environmental Engineering Course in Industrial Water Pollution Control, Pan American Health Organization, Mexico City, Mexico (1971)
Environmental Engineering Course in Industrial Water Pollution Control, Pan American Health Organization, University of Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico (1972)
Environmental Engineering Graduate Course, “Design of Water and Wastewater Treatment Facilities,” The University of Texas (1970-present)
Environmental Engineering Course in Industrial Pollution Control, Pan American Health Organization, Sao Paulo, Brazil (1974)
IAWPRC Water Quality Control Short Course, Birmingham, England (1974)
Environmental Engineering Course in Industrial Water Pollution Control, Pan American Health Organization, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1975)
Various Short Courses, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (1971-present)
Various Short Courses, University of Texas, Austin, Texas (1974-present)
Various Short Courses, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma (1974-present)
Short Course “Effluent Water Treatment” for EXXON Research and Engineering Company, Florham Park, New Jersey, January (1975)
Short Course “Wastewater Treatment Operation and Control” for the Texas Water Quality Board, Austin, Texas, July (1975)
World Health Organization, Consulting in Activated Carbon Treatment of Industrial Wastes, Denmark and Poland (1976)
Short Course “Troubleshooting Industrial Activated Sludge Systems,” for Union Carbide, Inc., South Charleston, W. Virginia
Short Course “General Concepts of Aerobic Biological Treatment,” for NATO Advanced Study, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey (1976)
Various Short Courses, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada (1977-present)
“Wastewater Treating Short Course,” for Gulf Oil Co., Houston, Texas, (1977)
“Design and Technical Support of Biotreaters,” for Shell Oil Co., Houston, Texas (1978)
“Treatment of Petrochemical Industrial Wastewater Discharge and Minimization of its Pollution Effects,” Pan American Health Organization, Sao Paulo, Brazil (1979)
“Advanced Water Pollution Control: Biological Waste Treatment,” University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas (1979)
Short Courses in Hazardous Waste Management, Advanced Wastewater Treatment Design, and Operation and Maintenance of Wastewater Treatment Plants - Vanderbilt University (1975-present)
Short Courses in Microbial Processes for Groundwater Contamination, National Water Well Association, (1988-present)
Books
Water Pollution Control, with W. W. Eckenfelder, The Pemberton Press, Jenkins Publishing Co., Austin (1970)
Development of Design and Operational Criteria, with W. W. Eckenfelder and C. Adams, CBI Publishing Co., Boston (1981)
Industrial Wastewater Management Handbook, Edited by H. S. Azad, McGraw Hill, New York (1976)
Carbon Adsorption Handbook, Edited by P.N. Cheremisinoff and F. Ellerbusch, Ann Arbor Science, Ann Arbor (1978)
Activated Carbon Adsorption for Wastewater Treatment, Edited by J.R. Perrick, CRC Press, Boca Raton (1981)
Toxicity Reduction Evaluation, Edited by D. L. Ford, Technomics, Inc. (1993)
Publications
(Partial List)
“Kinetics of Aerobic Oxidation in the Thermophilic Range,” Master’s Thesis, University of Texas, Austin, January 1965.
“Reuse Can Be Cheaper Than Disposal,” presented at Symposium on Water Reuse, 16th American Institute of Chemical Engineers Meeting, Houston, Texas 1966 (Coauthor L. Koenig).
“New Concepts in Oxygen Transfer and Aeration,” presented at Special Lecture Series on Advances in Water Quality Improvement, University of Texas, Austin, April. 1966.
“Laboratory Development of Biological Treatment Data for a Chemical Waste,” Proceedings of 22nd Purdue Industrial Waste Conference, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, 1967.
“Engineering Aspects of Surface Aeration Design,” Proceedings of 22nd Annual Purdue Industrial Waste Conference, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, 1967.
“The Effects of Process Variables on Sludge Floc Formation and Settling Characteristics,” Proceedings of 39th Annual Conference, Water Pollution Control Federation, Kansas City, Missouri, 1966, and Journal WPCF, November 1967.
“Application of the Total Carbon Analyzer for Industrial Wastewater Evaluation,” Proceedings of 23rd Annual Purdue Industrial Waste Conference, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, 1968.
“Energy and Hydraulic Tests on Mechanical Aeration Systems,” Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Water Pollution Research, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1968.
“Effluent Quality and Treatment Economics for Industrial Wastewaters,” Proceedings of 23rd Annual Purdue Industrial Waste Conference, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, 1968 (Coauthor W.W. Eckenfelder and C.S. Chow).
“Total Organic Carbon as a Parameter in Wastewater Evaluation,” Public Works, April 1968.
“Evaluation of Waste Treatment Plant Operation,” Proceedings of Pacific Northwest Pollution Control Association, Penticton, B.C., Canada, October 1968 (Coauthor W.W. Eckenfelder)
“Biodegradability Tests as a Basis of Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant Design,” Proceedings of Minnesota Water Pollution Control Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, December 1968.
“Water Reuse in Industry,” Proceedings of 42nd Annual Conference, Water Pollution Control Federation, Dallas, Texas 1969 (Coauthors E.F. Gloyna and J.M. Eller).
“Wastewater Reuse by Industry,” Proceedings of 89th Annual American Water Works Association Conference, San Diego, California, May 1969 (Coauthors E.F. Gloyna and J.M. Eller).