Christopher Brooker Curriculum Vitae - Professional Experience Hydrology, Hydraulics and Hydraulic Structures Chris Brooker & Associates River Rehabilitation Upper Jukskei, Johannesburg, JRA P O Box 259, Fourways 2055 Moroka Dam Wetland, JRA 11 Albatross Drive Fourways Sandton Unki Dam – Hydrological Yield and Flood Design Review, email: [email protected] Arup Tel: +27 11 465 0510 Fax: +27 11 465 0509 Irrigation water resources investigations: Dainfern; Waterfall City South African Stormwater Harvesting: Inanda Greens, Tiber; Fourways Golf Date of Birth : 1954.10.18 Park, RPP Zonkizizwe - surface water management, environmental water Qualifications: management for zero impact on 2 km2 high density BSc(Eng) Witwatersrand, 1977 development, Old Mutual Properties MSc(Eng) (with distinction) Urban Major drainage culverts: MTN Dome 600m Johannesburg, Stormwater Management, Witwatersrand, JRA; Parkmore 1,2 km 100 m3 /s capacity, Sandton 1998 Municipality; Carnival City flood diversion 300m, Sun Practical Techniques in Environmental International Impact Assessment, University of Cape Sabi River Sun, Hazyview, reconstruction of flood damaged Town, 1987 dam (Perry’s dam), Southern Sun River Rehabilitation Course. CEAD Flood control systems and detention ponds: 20000 m2 University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg 2002 capacity pond with siphon inlet and jacked pipe outlet, Currently registered for a doctorate in River Booysens, JRA; special system Lifateng, Soweto, JRA; flood Rehabilitation, Wits Dept Civil Engineering control embankment and jacked pipe outlet, Noordgesig, JRA; Sunward Park Ext 3, Boksburg, JCI Properties; Professional: Community driven flood control schemes, Tamboville PrEng No 820008, 1982 (Benoni) & Denver Informal Settlement (Johannesburg) Goosebay Canyon Weir, Vaal River Positions Held: Hydrological Investigations and Stormwater Master Planning: Academic: 1992 - 2008 2 External Examiner (post grad) and visiting Modderfontein (50km PCSWMM Model), Heartland Properties; Booysens catchment, JRA; Robinson catchment, JRA; lecturer Dept Civil Engineering, University Braamfontein Spruit catchment, JRA; Johannesburg south of the Witwatersrand flowing rivers, CoJ; Klip Spruit (major PCSWMM Model), JRA; External Examiner and visiting lecturer Craighall Stream, CoJ; Dept Landscape Architecture, University of Riverbank protection: Braamfontein Spruit, Parkhurst, JRA; Pretoria Craighall Stream, CoJ; Weltevreden Park, JRA; Jukskei ECSA Accreditation Committee Wits River, Alexandra, JRA; Environmental Engineering Floodline determination on numerous rivers and streams eg. External Representative on Review Vaal River, Klipspruit, Rietspruit, Klip River and Jukskei River Committee Wits Civil and Environmental Construction or repair of earth dams in urban catchments: Engineering Sunward Park, Little Falls, Lonehill, Sunninghill and Professional: Bryanston 2001 to present Stormwater drainage layouts and stormwater detention facilities, at planning and detail design stages, for numerous CBA Specialist Engineers (Chris Brooker & Associates) 1999 to 2001 townships Director, Phumelela Africa Professional Engineers Stormwater retention facility for flood attenuation, Sunward 1985 to 1999 Park Ext 3, Boksburg Director, Leech Price Associates (Pty) Ltd Hydraulic calculations for numerous bridges and culverts 1984 to 1985 Hydraulic design 1 400 Ml/d purified water pump station and Associate, Brian Leech Associates 600 Ml/d filtration plant, Zuikerbosch, Rand Water 1982 to 1984 Hydraulic design for numerous pipe networks for township Project Engineer, Brian Leech Associates water supplies 1981 Deviation of outfall sewer with 1 200 diameter plastic pipe, Design Engineer, Hill Kaplan Scott Falcon Crest 1979 to 1981 Design Engineer, Rand Water Board Structures 1978 Pipe jacking: Noordgesig (75m soft & rock), JRA; Booysens CJB 1. Assistant Resident Engineer, Rand Water Board Rd (25m mixed fill & soft), JRA; Klipspruit Valley Rd (65m very shallow, mixed fill & soft), JRA; Publications: Investigation and Repair of 1,8 km long Robinson culvert, "Risk and its Control in Urban Stormwater Johannesburg, JRA. Management", The Civil Engineer in South Africa, Structural design, Atlasville Shopping Centre, Boksburg December 1988 Structural design, Ferndale Mews offices, Randburg Structural design of mine hostel buildings, cap lamp house, shaft offices, and hostel kitchen and store complex "Civil Engineer and Landscape Architect: Friend Doornfontein No 3 Shaft or Foe" Conference on Landscape Architecture, Structural design townhouses approx 100 units in various Sandton 20 September 1991 - also published in schemes Johannesburg, Witbank, Roodepoort and Sandton "Environmental Planning and Management" Structural design 1 400 Ml/d purified water pump station, 600 Ml/d filtration plant, and 100t elevated hopper, Lime Slaking Urban Road Stormwater Drainage Course - Notes Plant, Zuikerbosch, Rand Water. and Presentation - South African Roads Federation, Repairs to failed reservoir, Blyvooruitzicht, Rand Water 1995 to 2008 Forensic Engineering and Expert Witness Historical Context of Urban Hydrology in Zambesi Estate, storm damage Johannesburg: Expert Witness Litigation, Dadelvlak Dam Failure, Malelane Part 1 Johannesburg, 1900 to 1990 Failure Investigation Perry’s Dam, Hazyview Journal of SAICE Volume 37 No 3, 1995 Failure Investigation, large diameter very flexible pipe, Part 2 Case Study of the Braamfontein Spruit, Pecanwood Journal of SAICE Volume 37 No 4, 1995 Television and Electrical Distributors vs City of Johannesburg Flood Damage Litigation Greater Johannesburg TMC Telemetered Rainfall Zuikerbosch Ave Pipeline Failure Investigation Monitoring Project, Journal IMESA, March 1996 Flood investigation, Klip River Drive and Booysens Road Culvert, Johannesburg Municipality Flood damage litigation Sandspruit, Morningside. “Environmentally Sensitive Stormwater Stormwater management litigation, Craighall Management” The Urban Green File October 1998 Investigation into fire damage to structure, Protea Piggs Peak Hotel, Swaziland “Stormwater Harvesting” Unicorn Container Depot crane failure, wind investigation The Urban Green File November/December 1999 Investigation into failure of welded spigot and socket joint of 2 100 mm diameter steel pipeline “Surface Water Management on Urban Golf Course” Inanda Greens, Johannesburg Environmental and Water Quality Urban Green File November/ December 2002 Vesuvius contaminated stormwater management, Vesuvius, SA “Urban Stormwater Harvesting: A Rational Moroka Dam and Wetland Rehabilitation, Soweto, CoJ & Approach” JRA Built Environment Professions Conference on Zonkizizwe, Midrand, surface water management, OMP Sustainable Development May 2002 EMP for Casino bids: Nokeng; Goosebay Canyon Vaal River; Hunters Rest; and Potgietersrus . “Environmentally Sound and Aesthetically Stormwater Management R for EIA’s: Parkhaven Pan, Acceptable River Crossings” Bohlweki; Isedleki, Oryx; Gardiner Ross, Bohlweki; Urban Green File May/June 2004 Gautrain, Bohlweki. Telemetered rain and stream gauge system, Johannesburg Artificial Wetland for sewage treatment : BP Truck Inn, BP R22 Development; Bakubung, Makalali Private Nature Reserve; Booysens Rowing Lake, feasibility study Cape McLear Hotel Malawi, Preliminary Environmental Management Plan Review Wetland Rehabilitation Manual, University of Natal Stormwater Management Schemes: Greenstone Hill, CJB 2. Heartland Properties; Greenstone Mall, LC Consulting; Fourways 39, Sivest; Memberships: Construction Member of SA Institution of Civil Engineers Resident Engineer on construction of 600 Ml/d water Member of SA Institution of Municipal Engineers purification works, consisting of sedimentation tanks, filtration Member of International Association for Impact plant, pumping stations, associated small and large diameter Assessment SA Chapter steel pipework Member International Erosion Control Association Engineer on may projects listed above CBA is a Member Firm of the SA Association of Consulting Engineers Computer Applications Committees: Programmes written include: Braamfontein Spruit Trust Committee, 1986 Water hammer analysis in pipelines Camera Club of Johannesburg, 1990 to 1993 Catchment modelling including hydrograph synthesis, Chairman, Fourways Residents and Ratepayers reservoir routing, channel routing and flood attenuation Association 1998 to 2000 Pipe network analysis Fourways Management Forum Steering Committee Extensive use of: 2000 to 2001 Hydrological and flood modelling software, Hydrosim, BOSS- SAACE Southern Gauteng Branch Vice Chairman WMS, BOSS-RMS, HEC-2, HEC-RAS, PCSWMM, AutoCAD 2002/04 Commercial and utility software; database, spreadsheet, word SAACE Southern Gauteng Branch Chairman processing etc. Proficient with MS Office and Lotus Smart 2004/06 Suite. IAIA (SA) Vaal Branch Treasurer 2003/06 GIS; hydrological modelling data base in ArcView CJB 3. .