BSK received notification in November from the USEPA awarding a contract to perform analyses of Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule 4 (UCMR4) compounds on Small Water Systems located throughout the entire United States.

The agreement spans 5 years and upon completion will likely be one of the largest contracts ever procured by the BSK Analytical Services Division.

Dear Executive Challenge Members,

It’s hard to believe the 2017 Central Valley Heart Walk is already here! As Chair of the inaugural City Wide Executive Challenge, THANK YOU for your hard work and commitment to raise significant funds for research and community programs in the Central Valley. Collectively our group of 10 raised $16,960.00, over 6 weeks!

A BIG CONGRATULATIONS to Karen McCaffrey and Mike Vartanian who surpassed their $3,000 goal during the challenge. Also, great job to our other Top Walkers, Michael Goldring, Michael Helsley, and Paulo Soares who raised $1,000 or more!

Although our challenge is complete, there still time to contribute and help the American Heart Association reach their overall goal of $280,000 to help fund research and prevent heart disease and stroke in our community.

Thank you all again for stepping up to the challenge and making a difference in our community! I look forward to seeing you all Saturday at the 2017 Central Valley Heart Walk.

FINAL STANDINGS

First Name	Last Name	Company Name	Total Amount
Karen	McCaffrey	McCaffrey Group	$5,000
Mike	Vartanian	BSK Associates	$3,300
Michael	Goldring	Valley Children’s Healthcare	$2,600
Paulo	Soares	Camarena Health	$1,850
Michael	Helsley	Wanger Jones Helsley	$1,835
Shannon	MacAdam	American Heart Association	$750
Dr. Jesus	Rodriguez	Kaiser Permanente	$500
Jessup	Wiley	Rabobank	$125
Brett	Frazier	Madera County	$0
Todd	Suntrapak	Valley Children’s Healthcare	$0

 

With gratitude,

Brett F. Frazier

Supervisor, District 1, Madera County

Welcome Neva Popenoe to the BSK Fresno office:

Neva M. Popenoe, PE, GE

Mrs. Popenoe has over twelve years of geotechnical engineering and materials testing experience. She has worked on a variety of projects including highways, railroad and river bridges; flexible and rigid pavements; residential, commercial, and industrial developments; schools and hospitals; pipelines; power facilities; impoundments; landfills; and forensic studies. She is responsible for managing and conducting geotechnical investigations including developing the scope of work and budget, site reconnaissance, field classification of soils, sampling, design, and report preparation and review. She has performed geotechnical investigations for over 100 bridges in the State of California for Caltrans, local cities and counties. In addition to bridge foundations, her design experience on these projects includes retaining walls, sound walls, roadway embankments, and pavement structural sections. She also performs field inspection and testing, data analysis, laboratory testing, and construction special inspections.

Our Livermore laboratory is now officially fully AASHTO accredited to perform Superpave Testing.  We have joined the few laboratories in California that are capable of performing Hamburg and Gyratory testing through AASHTO with CalTrans certification shortly to follow.  We have also more than doubled our scope of testing accreditation in materials and geotechnical laboratory testing to become accredited for the largest scope in all the BSK offices.