Experience

Wright Water Engineers, Inc.

• United States
• Civil Engineering
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Engineer

  • Apr 1995 - Present

  Water and wastewater treatment, water quality, potable water systems, watershed management, reclamation and reuse, pollutant control, and design and planning of treatment controls for water resources projects. Experience includes obtaining state and local approval of projects and costs/funding consulting. Over 45 years of professional engineering experience. Water and wastewater treatment, water quality, potable water systems, watershed management, reclamation and reuse, pollutant control, and design and planning of treatment controls for water resources projects. Experience includes obtaining state and local approval of projects and costs/funding consulting. Over 45 years of professional engineering experience.



Wright Paleohydrological Institute

• Director of Roman Aqueduct Studies

  • Apr 2000 - Present

  WPI’s first field visit to a Roman water system was performed in 2002. Research Associate Wayne Lorenz led the field study of the Barbegal mill site near present-day Arles, France. Barbegal was a flour mill where ancient Romans used water power to drive millstones. The mill was one of the earliest “industrial factories” with 16 waterwheels, each of which powered a heavy millstone. This Roman mill dates from the First Century, A.D., and relied on springs and two long aqueducts. The Barbegal mill was adjacent to vast agricultural wheat fields that were still vibrant in 1888 when they were so marvelously recorded for posterity by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh resided in Arles and frequented the wheat fields during his final years. WPI has studied the Barbegal mill water supply, hydraulics of the aqueducts (north and south aqueducts), water quality and hydraulics of the channel as depositions occurred on channel walls and the water functions of the mill. A unique aspect of the Barbegal studies concerns the use of aqueduct bridges to span small valleys and avoid stormwater flows.

• Pompeii Coordinator

  • Apr 2000 - Present

  In 2009, Wayne Lorenz directed a WPI team to begin investigations of Pompeii in Italy. To date, there have been eight field visits to Pompeii. Studies are focusing on: •An early Roman aqueduct (the Avella Aqueduct) that served the city before construction of the famous Serino Aqueduct •The location and flow of water supply springs •The route and gradients of the major supply aqueduct, the Serino Aqueduct (constructed between 33 and 12, B.C.) •Water distribution system within the city •Hydraulics, piping, and water features in several Pompeii houses including the House of the Hanging Balcony and the House of the Bear.