Brian Petty, PE
Brian is a Senior Principal Engineer based in California with more than 25 years of experience focused on chemical and civil engineering related to water management, conveyance and treatment, and replenishment programs. Brian is Geosyntec’s Water West Operations Vice President. He supports public and private clients seeking to enhance existing operations, design and construct new capital-project water infrastructure, and address environmental challenges.
Specialties
Water Treatment and Delivery; Industrial Water Management; Drinking Water Supply and Treatment; Wastewater Treatment, Specialized Water Treatment Technologies; Environmental Assessment and Remediation;
Practice Areas
Environmental Management; Water Management
Education
MBA, California State University, Fullerton, California, 2007; BS, Chemical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, 2001
Registration
California Professional Engineer, 68707; Washington Professional Engineer, 42563; Tennessee Professional Engineer, 124755; Nevada Professional Engineer, 027188
Client Service
Clients value the integrated water vision and holistic approach that Brian brings to each project. He is a leader in advancing OneWater concepts with clients from public utilities and a range of industries, including mining, data centers, metal finishing, and food and beverage.
His work includes supporting industrial water supply and wastewater pretreatment projects that emphasize water efficiency and beneficial reuse. He works with clients across the food processing, data center, and manufacturing industries to achieve water efficiency and water quality goals while maintaining business objectives and product-quality standards. Recently, this has involved analyzing the costs and benefits of potable versus recycled water for data center evaporative cooling.
Brian also works with water and wastewater utilities to address water quality issues. For a complex Superfund groundwater extraction and treatment system with potable end use, Brian led the engineering for a system that reliably treats naturally occurring inorganic constituents, 1,4-dioxane, heavy metals, emerging chemicals, and trace organics.
To advance the state of the practice, his team recently developed an innovative and cost-effective biological treatment process for 1,4-dioxane, and they are developing novel PFAS treatment technologies. In addition, he has designed materials-recovery systems to reclaim resources such as trace precious metals from wastewater.
Because he understands that water is key to business resilience and that water scarcity can place tremendous cost and compliance pressures on clients’ operations, Brian also routinely advises his clients on ways to implement water efficiency studies that can help them decrease water use and develop sustainable supplies. The resulting plans and designs for innovative water metering, treatment, and reuse programs allow his clients to make better use of scarce resources, improve resilience, and achieve sustainability goals.
Contact Brian Petty at BPetty@Geosyntec.com or +1-714-969-0800.
