2002-055-RES ACCEPT PROPOSAL OF CARTER & BURGESS FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES TO WATER LOST AND UNACCOUNTED FOR STUDY IN CITY'S WATER AND ACCOUNTING AND OPERATING SYSTEM

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. I I . . I . I I I . I . I I I I I I I II I I . I 3 . . . . . . ALBERT PETRASEK, ..Jr, PhD, PE Project Manager Carter & Burgess, Inc. Education Ph.D., CiviVEnvironmental Eng, 1975 Texas A&M University College Station M.s., Civil Engineering, 1970 Texas A&M University College Station B.S., Civil Engineering, 1967 Texas A&M University College Station Professional Registration Registered Professional Engineer 1976, TX, 39168 1999, OK, 19452 Professional Experience Dr. Petrasek has over 30 years of experience in planning, design, construction, and operation of engineering works. He has been an engineer for over $2,000,000,000 in construction in the United States and Mexico. Dr. Petrasek worked as the chief of in-house pilot and demonstration scale research for the U. S. EPA1s Office of Research and Development, Cincinnati, Ohio for severol yeors. In that position, Dr. Petrasek had responsibility for the Agency's research program for instrumentation and controls, and a significant amount of work was conducted evaluating different types of flow meters, and establishing standards and criteria for the correct installation and operation of the instruments. Dr. Petrasek has extensive experience in the design of meter installations, and in the operating and maintenance issues associated with metering. Dr. Petrasek is a former employee of Dallas Water Utilities, and he had operational responsibility of the Department1s R&D facilities, which has 15 magnetic flow meters, ten turbine meters, 15 orlice meters, and four venturi meters. Relevant Project Experience . Design, Construction, and Operation of Flow Test Stand, Project Manager, U. S. EPA, Cincinnati, Ohio. This project included the design, construction, and operation of a flow test stand to calibrate flow meters. The test stand included a water recirculation loop, high-speed diverter valves, pumps, water storage tanks, gravimetric water tank, and scoles. The unit was designed to operate on water flow meters with a maximum size of eight-inches and provide NIST traceable accuracy to 0.05 percent. The high accuracy is required to verift meters with a stated occuracy of 0.5 percent.