STEVEN C. KUEHR, P.E.

Senior Associate

 

Summary Of Experience

 

Mr. Kuehr is an Associate with Lyman Henn, Inc. specializing in geotechnical engineering as it relates to water supply, sewerage, commercial, industrial, highway, bridge, land development, and environmental assessment, remedial design and construction.  He has over 25 years of progressive geotechnical engineering experience involving a wide variety of projects in the disciplines outlined above.  Mr. Kuehr has had project management responsibility for numerous geotechnical projects over the last 19 years.  He has also managed the geotechnical field section for a large government agency and the geotechnical-engineering program for the Denver, Colorado district office of a national consulting firm.  Mr. Kuehr has taught the laboratory section of an introductory geotechnical-engineering course and tutored students of foundation engineering, both while attending Purdue University.  He has been involved in a variety of professional activities.

 

Mr. Kuehr's experience in engineering for landfills includes overall on-site QA/QC responsibility for a Superfund remediation project which included the construction of a solid waste management unit.  He has also supervised the geotechnical engineering and QA/QC activities related to borrow area investigation, landfill excavation, clay liner test fill, clay liner construction and leachate collection system construction for municipal solid waste landfills.  He was primary author or reviewer for the borrow area investigation, clay liner test fill and final documentation reports for the aforementioned project.  Mr. Kuehr is providing ongoing quarterly inspections for a municipal solid waste landfill.  He has also coordinated the construction of a solid waste landfill groundwater-monitoring network. Mr. Kuehr actively participated on the Colorado Department of Health committee responsible for input to Subtitle D Regulation language for landfill liners.

 

Mr. Kuehr's experience in water and wastewater projects includes geotechnical project engineer and project management responsibility for a large variety of water related municipal infrastructure projects.  He has performed and managed geotechnical-engineering investigations for storm drainage projects, water treatment plants, wastewater treatment plants, interceptor sewers, raw water transmission pipelines, water storage reservoirs, intake structures and pump stations.  Mr. Kuehr has followed design involvement with construction monitoring management and troubleshooting on most of these water/wastewater projects.  Evaluation of construction within contaminated ground was also performed for some of the projects.

 

Education

 

Purdue University M.S.C.E., 1985

Purdue University B.S.C.E., 1980

                                   

Professional Registration

 

1986/Professional Engineer: Colorado (Reg. No. 24369)

1989/Professional Engineer: California (Reg. No. 44403)

 

Professional Societies

 

American Water Works Association

American Society of Civil Engineers

American Water Resources Association

Colorado Association of Geotechnical Engineers

Rocky Mountain Water and Environment Association

Colorado Rock Products Association

 

Special Studies and Courses

 

Current OSHA Health and Safety Training (40-hour and annual refreshers)

Ground Water and Seepage (graduate level), University of Colorado, 1990

Liners and Covers for Waste Disposal Facilities, University of Texas, 1992