General Info:
Harkins Engineering, Inc (HEI) provides environmental, municipal and civil engineering consulting services to governmental and private corporation clients. President, Victoria Richards Harkins, Ph.D., P.E. has over 13 years experience providing a wide array of civil and environmental engineering services. Services include water and wastewater utility services: including rate analyses, certificates of convenience and necessity (CCN), asset evaluations, etc.; water and wastewater treatment design, permitting, groundwater well and treatment plant design, environmental assessments, environmental remediation (small to multi million dollars) and water quality modeling. Dr. Harkins has over nine years experience in utility work with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and as a private consultant. Dr. Harkins is considered an expert in water and wastewater utility services. Dr. Harkins has testified numerous times as the TCEQ's expert witness as well as a private consultant for numerous cities, customer groups, and water utilities. Dr. Harkins is extremely knowledgeable of current water code and administrative rules and regulations. - ANDORC, Inc - a humanitarian organizaton that supports and educates Americans to travel to Russia to provide direct care and assistance to orphanages. - James Bowie High School - Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the leading charitable funder and advocate of Type I diabetes research whose mission is to find a cure. Dr. Harkins as the Project Manager via a subcunsultant with Espey Consultants, Inc has designed an intensive restoration of Hamilton Creek and Pool for Travis County. Dr. Harkins has been retained by the Town of Anetta, Texas to permit the Town for a large aquisition of a water and wastewater utility. Dr. Harkins also provides the Town long range planning. Dr. Harkins has be retained by Armbrust & Brown, L.P to provide expert water and wastewater utility system consulting services. In accordance with the Memorandum of Agreement between the City of Austin (COA) and the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts (CPA), the CPA hereby certifies that Harkins Engineering, Inc (HEI), has successfully met the established requirements of the Statewide Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) Program to be recognized as a HUB. HEI is a small, woman-owned business and is registered with the State of Texas Board of Professional Engineers. HEI is certified with the South Central Texas Certification Agency, City of Austin, and the Texas Building and Procurement Commission as a small, minority, and woman owned business. HEI is also a certified disadvantaged business enterprise with the State of Texas certified through the COA. Texas Water Conservation Association Crowne Plaza Riverwalk, San Antonio, Texas - October 12-14, 2011