Brown and Caldwell Acquires Wet Weather Experts, Moffa & Associates.Business Editors WALNUT CREEK Walnut Creek, residential city (1990 pop. 60,569), Contra Costa co., W Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area; inc. 1914. It is the trade and shipping center of an extensive agricultural area where walnuts are among the major product. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2001 Nationwide environmental engineering and consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a Brown and Caldwell announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Moffa & Associates, a Syracuse, N.Y.-based engineering firm that specializes in wet weather and combined sewer overflows (CSOs). "Our acquisition of Moffa & Associates hits the mark because it gives our clients access to more top environmental solution-makers," said Brown and Caldwell President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Craig Goehring. "M&A has earned a national reputation for being able to assess all solutions, from state-of-the-practical to state-of-the-art, and apply the one that is most cost effective." Peter Moffa, P.E., now Senior Vice President and CSO (Chief Security Officer) The person in charge of all staff members who are responsible for promulgating, enforcing and administering security policies for all systems within an enterprise or division. Technical Director for Brown and Caldwell, launched Moffa & Associates in 1986. A pioneer of CSO and stormwater solutions since the early 1970s, Moffa quickly developed M&A into a market leader, participating in many of the nation's largest and most innovative wet weather projects. Examples include New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's "Vortex Demonstration Project" to evaluate the cost and performance of three vortex stormwater separation technologies, and Detroit's high-rate stormwater disinfection disinfection, n the process of destroying pathogenic organisms or rendering them inert. disinfection, full oral cavity, n a procedure used to reduce active periodontal disease, usually completed within a certain short time frame. plant, the largest facility of its type in the world. "Wet-weather technology is one of the hottest areas in the market," says Goehring. "M&A staff are top flight technologists with the cutting-edge solutions our clients expect." Control and treatment of wet weather flows is an issue of growing concern that affects every municipality and treatment plant operator in the country. Congress recently passed the Wet Weather Water Quality Act (H.R. 828), signaling the likely appropriation of billions of dollars for control of CSOs, SSOs (sanitary sewer overflows), and stormwater discharges beginning in 2002. Established in 1947, Brown and Caldwell is a multi-disciplined environmental engineering and consulting firm that provides scientific and engineering services to government and industry. The employee-owned company has headquarters in Walnut Creek, California Walnut Creek is a largely affluent suburb several miles east of Oakland in Contra Costa County, California, USA, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. While not as large as the neighboring Concord, Walnut Creek serves as the business and entertainment hub for the , and employs more than 1,000 people in offices throughout the United States. Engineering News-Record ranks Brown and Caldwell 55th among the nation's top 500 engineering firms and 9th largest among those serving the Sewer/Waste market. |
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