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AFCSor Joccn Arec ftOOF CONTROL Ag April 12014 Paul Morrison Division of Flood Management Department of Water Resources 3464 El Camino Avenue Suite 200 Sacramento California 95821 SMITH CANAL CLOSURE STRUCTURE ADDITIONAL GEOTECHNICAL CANDIDATE FOR THE INDEPENDENT PANEL OF EXPERTS In order to continue moving fotward with the selection of our Independent Panel of Experts for the Smith Canal project SJAFCA is pleased to submit an additional geotechnical candidate for your consideration Attached please find Mr Edwin Hultgren resume Once we receive your confirmation on all candidates we will proceed with the process Please let me know if you have any questions or comments or need additional information ROG RCHURCHWELL DEPUTY EXECUTiVE DIRECTOR RCJJNdc Attachment cc Kelly Fucciolo Department of Water Resources James Giottonini Executive Director Juan Neira Senior Civil Engineer Project Manager ODMA\GRPWSEC0SPWPWLibrry2143451 221 WcbcAvenue Rooci 301 Stockton CA952022317 209 9377900 SJA-CEQ-1 9306 Professional Resume of EDWIN HULTGREN Hultgren Tillis Engineers Geotechnical Engineer Page of 13 Mr Hultgren has over 40 years of experience as consulting geotechnical engineer The focus of his geotechnical engineering practice is heavy industrial facilities marine structures soft and water ground engineering resources projects Most of his recent projects are in the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta along the Carquinez Strait and around the perimeter of the San Francisco Bay His experience with marine structures includes tidal gate structures offshore gravity structures cantilevered tied back and braced revetments bulkheads boat lifts Cell Open Walls marine railways cellular sheetpile structures tidal flashboard culverts fixed piers dredging by clamshell and hydraulic relieving platforms cutterhead equipment floating berths Mr Hultgren was the lead geotechnical engineer for two tidal gate projects in the Delta one for the California Department of Water Resources and the Bureau of Reclamation across Threemile Slough between Sherman and Brannan Islands The other was pair of removable tidal gates on Old River and Connection Slough for the State Water Contractors commonly called the Two- Gates Project has undertaken Mr Hultgren wide range of levee design and evaluation projects He is leader in the design and repair of levees on soft ground in the Delta and around San Francisco Bay Mr Hultgren made several presentations on levee issues to CALFED Science Conferences He has been Senior Consultant reviewing levee designs by others Mr Hultgren developed geotechnical design criteria for several marsh restoration projects around San Francisco Bay in the Suisun marsh and in the Delta He has directed extensive of soil investigations weak compressible deposits including estuary clays such as Bay Mud Delta and fills peat lagoon deposits dredge Mr l-lultgren has extensive experience in designing facilities in areas of large settlement potential He has designed structures using relevelable foundations and light-weight fills including volcanic cinders Geofoam and Cell- Crete Mr Hultgren is skilled at preparing flow-nets for seepage He has evaluated seepage impacts in and beneath levees addressing the effectiveness of cutoff walls internal drainage and well systems He has investigated liquefiable deposits and developed recommendations for remediation He has designed repairs for unstable levee foundations and slopes During flood events Mr Hultgren has responded to sites with sand boils at the toes of the embankments seepage through the faces of the embankments piping failures and overtopping He has investigated levee embankment slumping and cracking He reviewed two levee failures following the 1997 New Years flood along Paradise Cut and along the Feather River SJA-C EQ-i 9307 Professional Resume of EDWIN HULTGREN Hultgren Tillis Engineers Geotechnical Engineer Page of 13 EDUCATION Geotechnical M.S Engineering Unjversity of California Berkeley 1971 B.S Civil Engineering Sacramento State University 1969 CALIFORNIA REGISTRATION Civil Engineer C-22590 Geotechnical Engineer GE-426 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 1993 Present Hultgren -Titus Engineers 1977 1993 Harding Lawson Associates Honolulu Novato and Concord 1969 1977 Woodward Clyde Consultants Oakland and Houston PUBLICATIONS CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Setback Levees in Exhausted Peat CALFED Science Conference October 2008 Waterside Stability of Delta Levees CALFED Science Conference January 2003 Levee Stability Impacts from Seepage Induced by Delta Island Flooding CALFED Science Conference October 2000 Performance of Test Fill Constructed on Soft Peat ASCE Specialty Conference Stability and Performance of Slopes and Embankments June 1992 SJA-C EQ-i 9308 Professional Resume of EDWIN HULTGREN Huttgren Tillis Engineers Geotechnical Engineer Page of 13 REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS Marine Structures The following is partial list of Marine Structures for which Mr Hultgren was the geotechnical engineer Several are described in more detail on subsequent pages Drought Emergency Temporary McNears Beach Pier Repair San Rock Barriers Steamboat Slough Rafael Sutter and West False River Slough Isolated Conveyance Feasibility Threemlie Tidal Slough Gate Study including slough crossings Structure between Brannan and Sacramento San Joaquin Delta Sherman Islands Marine Oil Terminal Seismic Two Gates Tidal Gate Structures Assessment Benicia Connection Slough and Old River Emergency Rock Loader Stockton San River Joaquin Delta East-West Super Levee between Middle River Pump Station and Roberts Island and Palm Tract Open-Cell bulkhead Victoria Island Cement Wharf West Sacramento Water Tunnel beneath Old River Wharf Replacement Benicia Victoria Island to Tract Byron Cement Import Terminal Redwood Garcia Draft Wharf and Diego Deep City Small Boat Harbor Indian Ocean Holland Tract Road Bulkhead Corkscrew Tidal Flow Slough Knightseri Control Structure Redwood City Salton Sea Intake Structures Dublon Island Pier Chuuk Imperial County Micronesia Relieving Platform Wharf Offshore Ocean Thermal Energy Galveston Texas Conversion Power Plant Kahe Sheetpile Bulkhead Port Arthur Point Oahu Texas Wharf No Port of Replacement Barge Pier Baton Rouge Louisiana Redwood City Fisheries Wharf American Samoa Point Oyster Ferry Berthing Piles Apra Harbor Breakwater Guam South San Francisco Ford Island Bulkhead Pearl Harbor Pier Ferry Berthing San Francisco Drought Emergency Temporary Rock Barriers Steamboat Slough Sutter Slough and West False River Sacramento San Joaquin Delta Mr Hultgren is the lead geotechnical engineer for design of the Temporary Rock Barriers to be placed across West False River Steamboat Slough and Sutter Slough in the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta in May 2014 for relief emergency drought Over period of seven weeks Mr Hultgren guided his staff in collecting the existing geotechnical data near the three sites assessed foundation and abutment conditions designed the rock fill embankments selected the rock fill gradation evaluated seepage through the barriers designed abutments against steeply eroded levee faces design abutment grading details that included short sections of river barrier sheetpiles walls to limit rock fill loads against the weak compressible peat foundations of the levees SJA-C EQ-i 9309 Professional Resume of EDWIN HULTGREN Huttgren Thus Engineers Geotechnical Engineer Page of 13 developed portions of the technical specifications and interfaced with the States management team Threemile Slough Flow Control Gate Project Sacramento County For the Threemile Gate first Slough Project Mr Hultgren led the geotechnical aspects of site selection directing his staff in the of gathering existing geotechnical data for the existing levees along West False River and Threemile Slough From that data four alternate gate sites were selected for further evaluation of the levees including stability existing and interpretation of likely foundation conditions beneath the river and The slough preferred site was selected primarily on hydrodynamic conditions The selected site is on Threemile Slough between Sherman Island Brannan nd Island approximately 700 feet east of the State Route 160 Bridge across Threemile Slough elements Major of the Threemile Slough Gate Project include flow control gate boat passage control facility building equipment building access road retaining walls and levee improvements The proposed gate structure will allow better management of hydrodynamic conditions in the central and south Delta of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Rivers The goal is to decrease water salinity in the central and south Delta and protect fish species of concern The gate would be able to fully close the channel but not significantly interfere with navigation sediment transport and hydraulic characteristics when open Several gate types were considered including bottom-hinged gates both Obermeyer type and mechanically actuated radial in flap gates gates single- and multiple-bay configurations and vertical lift gates The gate will be approximately 500 feet long The channel bottom or sill level will be near Elevation -22 feet NAVD198B When the channel is to be closed the top of the gate will be raised to around Elevation feet Both shallow and deep foundations for the gate were considered In addition gate construction may include dry methods inside temporary cofferdams and wet methods without the use of temporary cofferdams Mr all Hultgren lead phases of the geotechnical investigation which included assessing liquefaction and methods to densify the loose sands in the