The Valley Creek Wastewater Treatment Facility set a new standard as part of a $14,000,000 (1976 dollars) facility owned by Jefferson County, Alabama. The plant provided primary and secondary treatment and stored menthane gas from the digesters to supplement the gas powered air blowers for the primary and secondary aeration facilities. 

One of the Principals of DAC served as the Office Engineer (2nd in charge) in the on-site office for the general contractor, Blount Brothers Construction, Inc.

The project was built using a federal grant with the remaining funding from state and local agencies.  

The Sikes Disposal Pits was listed as number 32 on the National Priority List by EPA. Remediation was accomplished using an on-site incinerator on the banks of the San Jacinto River in Harris County Texas. The project was the highest award for engineering excellence in the state of Texas. It was featured as the cover story in the Engineering News Record--an internationally distributed magazine in the engineering/construction industry.

One of the principals of DAC served as the construction/remediation manager managing a team of eleven full-time on-site inspectors and administrators providing services 24/7/365 during the incineration phase. 

The project was built using a federal grant with the remaining funding from the State of Texas.  

National Honorable Mention

One of DAC's principals served as the Coordinating Engineer of the on-site construction management team of 35 managers, administrators and inspectors. The 69th Complex was built by 23 seperate contracts on only 44 acres near downtown Houston on the banks of Buffalo Bayou. The plants capacity is 200 MGD and 400 MGD peak hydraulic flow. The construction cost was $245,000,000.

The contracts were built using three federal grants with the remaining funding from state and local agencies. 

Unique features of this project included:

• an on-site oxygen generation plant;
  
• enclosed aeration basins to contain the oxygen rich air space;
  
• mix-media final effluent filtration;
  
• sixteen 180-foot diameter clarifiers;
  
• sludge drying facility;
  
• barge loading dock for dried sludge; and a
  
• distributed digital control system. 

69th St. Facility on Buffalo Bayou

A principal of DAC served as the construction manager for the City of Houston's Surface Water Transmission Program for eight years. The program installed 12-inch diameter to 96-inch diameter water lines in the streets of Houston Texas.

Tunneling under Buffalo Bayou

Acres Homes Pumping Station

Extensive tunneling was required to cross interstates and major throughfares without impacting transporation. One project requried tunneling under Buffalo Bayou.

Sage Rd. at Galleria III

The contracts were funded by the City of Houston.