On behalf of the TAI team, we are excited and honored to acknowledge Jose Chavez for his accomplishments this year. In October, Jose passed the Mechanical Engineering Machine Design PE and became licensed in Illinois. Before working for TAI, Jose gained two and a half years of experience as a Project Engineer assisting with designing several different types of wastewater equipment.

Since joining TAI in January of 2020, Jose has worked on the West Side Water Reclamation Facility 2020 Phase III Expansion for the City of St. Charles, assisting with the design and bidding, and construction oversight of this project. This project includes the replacement and addition of screening equipment and blowers, upgrading the biological process, and the construction of a Tertiary Filter Building with filters, UV, and chemical systems. This project also includes the rehabilitation of final clarifiers, thickener, and Aerobic Digester, and the Construction of a Sludge Handling and Sludge Storage Buildings for the dewatering and storing the digested sludge.

Jose also worked on the Phase IIA Rehabilitation Project for the City of Batavia, where he assisted in designing the Phase IIA rehabilitation for the City of Batavia’s Wastewater treatment facility. He is designing the Primary and Excess Flow Clarifiers containing rotating clarifier mechanisms and launder covers with an integral exhausted odor control system. Additionally, he is designing a temporary WAS thickening facility in the existing Sludge Handling Building, which will house WAS thickening equipment with WAS and Thickened WAS pumps. Jose performed pump calculations to appropriately size these pumps for the current Phase IIA and future IIB projects.

Jose currently oversees the Well #7 & 13 Interconnect project for the City of St. Charles, which includes the demolition of the existing Well 7 treatment facility, the replacement of the existing Well 7 pump and controls, and the installation of a generator. This project also includes reconfiguring and installing additional piping to interconnect well #7 to the Oak Street Water Treatment Plant. The Oak Street Water Treatment Facility will consist of installing new filter units, expanding the existing chemical feed system, process piping, and over 2,000 LF of 6” directionally drilled force main.

Jose has become an integral part of our engineering team, and TAI congratulates him on his accomplishments.