EDUCATION:
B.S., Civil Engineering South DakotaSchool of Mines and Technology
LICENSES:
Professional Engineer – Wyoming P.E. 5642
Professional Engineer – South Dakota P.E. 4753
South Dakota Well Driller/Pump Installer #604
Wyoming Well Driller/Pump Installer 02WDPI033
Montana Water Well Contractor
WDEQ Level I Water System
WDEQ Level II Distribution System
WDEQ Level II Wastewater System
TRAINING:
MSHA Methane Detection and Oxygen Deficiency
MSHA Experienced Miner Safety
PVC Pipeline Design by Certainteed/Eagle Plastics
SUMMARY:
Mr. Hunt is a co-owner and founder for Weston Engineering, Inc. His project experience includes over 36 years of water supply, municipal engineering, and dewatering projects throughout northeastern Wyoming, western South Dakota, and Utah. As the Supervising Engineer for Weston Engineering, Inc., Mr. Hunt possesses a broad range of experience in multiple aspects of water supply, storage, distribution, and operation of water resources and water systems. He has design, project management, and the “hands-on” construction experience to provide for a technically sound and economically feasible project. Permitting, well design, testing, pump design, electrical controls, pipelines, treatment, and storage and distribution systems are all part of his engineering and construction experience.
WESTON ENGINEERING, INC.
Mr. Hunt has participated in a large number of industrial and municipal water supply projects throughout Wyoming, Utah, and western South Dakota. His responsibilities have included preparation of feasibility studies, systems analyses, and design for municipal water supplies, irrigation systems, storage and distribution systems, sewer systems, and water and wastewater treatment and operation. Mr. Hunt’s engineering and construction experience also includes design of well stimulation programs, electrical controls, well houses, pipelines, chlorination systems, and water storage facilities.
Mr. Hunt has served as the supervising engineer and project manager for WESTON’s work on Wyoming Water Development Commissions (WWDC)-sponsored projects, including the following:
Level I Studies: Beulah, Clearmont, Corner Mountain, Douglas, Elk Mountain, Glenrock, Guernsey, Hartville, Pinedale, Pine Butte, Ryan Park, Star Valley Ranch, and Worland.
Level II Studies: Bighorn Regional Groundwater, Burlington, Cheyenne, Corner Mountain, Dayton, Douglas, Elk Mountain, Encampment, Gillette Connections 1, Gillette Connections 2, Glenrock, Guernsey, Hartville, Kaycee, Lander, Moorcroft, Riverside, Riverton, Ryan Park, Star Valley Ranch, Upton, Vista West, Wamsutter, and Worland.
Level III Projects: Cheyenne, Chugwater, Douglas, Elk Mountain, Glenrock, Guernsey, Kaycee, Moorcroft, Osage, Rolling Hills, Star Valley, and Vista West.
Mr. Hunt served as the Town Engineer for the Towns of Moorcroft and Hulett and is the CountyEngineer for WestonCounty. Mr. Hunt has provided design and project management services for the Moorcroft Madison Well Pipeline Project, Hulett Water and Wastewater Improvement Projects, Moorcroft 2009 Cheyenne Avenue Waterline Replacement Project, 2000 Wastewater Rehabilitation Project, City of Rapid City Jackson Springs Madison Test Well Project, City of Sturgis Well No. 6 Siting and Development Project, and Colonial Pine Hills Wellfield Evaluation and Rehabilitation Project. He also supervised the Osage Water Supply Project, Cheyenne Fiscal Year 2000 Well Rehabilitation Project, South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks McNenny Fish Hatchery Well Replacement Project, and in Utah, the Park City Groundwater Exploration Program and the Oakley Test Well Project.
Mr. Hunt has provided design, consulting, and operational assistance to the Vista West Subdivision, Heritage Village Homeowners Association, Butte Meade Water District, and City of Sturgis, South Dakota. System analyses performed by Mr. Hunt include hydrologic studies, electrical controls and power cost comparisons, and storage and distribution review, and O&M procedure design and recommendations.
Mr. Hunt’s industrial groundwater background includes work at many of the PowderRiver Basin coal mines, including Powder River Coal, Cordero Mining, Kennecott Mining, Triton Coal, Black Thunder Coal, Kerr-McGee Coal Company, North Antelope Coal Company, Kemmerer Coal Company, as well as several uranium mines for which he completed projects in the early 1980s.
A significant portion of Mr. Hunt’s experience deals with rehabilitation of existing water supply and distribution systems including those systems serving Gillette, Moorcroft, Wright, Upton, Osage, Hulett, Sundance, Sturgis, Wall, Box Elder Kadoka, and regional industrial concerns, including Black Hills Power and Light, Pacific Power and Light and numerous coal-bed methane producers located in the Powder River Basin.
ORGANIZATIONS
National Water Well Association
Wyoming Water Quality and Pollution Control Association
American Society of Civil Engineers
Wyoming Association of Rural Water Systems
Wyoming Water Well Association
Wyoming Ground Water Advisory Board