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WARD 28.12. 1888 Belleville KS/USA 27.04. 1959 Riverside CA/USA Richard Benskin Ward obtained in 1913 the BS degree in civil engineering from the University of Kansas, Lawrence KS. Until 1925 he was engaged in railroad projects in Alaska, construction of earthfill dams, and irrigation schemes in Montana and Wyoming for the US Bureau of Reclamation USBR. Until 1931 he was then a design engineer with the County Sanitation District of Los Angeles County. He was in 1931 employed by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, preparing estimates for the Colorado River Aqueduct. He became in 1935 resident engineer on the construction of the dam and dike of the Cajalco Reservoir, todays Lake Mathews. In 1938 Ward accepted a position with the USBR at Denver CO. During the next eleven years he served as construction engineer on the Green Mountain Dam, Kremmling CO, location engineer on the San Diego Aqueduct, and construction engineer on four earth-fill dams for the Horsetooth Reservoir, Fort Collins CO. He was construction engineer from 1949 to 1954 on Falcon Dam and Power Plant on the Rio Grande River, Laredo TX, for the US International Boundary and Water Commission. In 1954 he returned to USBR as engineer advisor to the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority in New South Wales, Australia. After return to the Metropolitan Water District in 1956, he was in charge of the construction work required to enlarge Lake Mathews. Ward was all through his professional career intimately associated with dam design and construction, and thus may be considered among these engineers who have greatly added to the development of America’s West in terms of water supply, irrigation, flood control, and energy supply. He was elected associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1933, and ASCE Member in 1938. He was presented a certificate of life membership at a meeting of the Los Angeles Section early in 1959. This was made by Julian Hinds (1881-1977), a friend and associate of long standing, who was assistant chief engineer of the Metropolitan Water District during Ward’s assignment to the Cajalco Reservoir Project. Anonymous (1941). R.B. Ward. Engineering News-Record 126(Jan.9): 65. P Anonymous (1948). Ward, Richard B. Who’s who in engineering 6: 2091. Lewis: New York. Anonymous (1959). Richard B. Ward. Civil Engineering 29(7): 530. Ward, R.B. (1921). Clark Fork Secondary Project, Montana-Wyoming. USBR: Denver. https://www.ibwc.state.gov/Organization/Operations/Field_Offices/Falcon.html

WARING F.H. 05.10. 1890 Saratoga NY/USA 25.12. 1983 Columbus OH/USA Frederick Holman Waring obtained the BSc degree in civil and sanitary engineering from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA, in 1912. Until 1914 he joined the firm Metcalf & Eddy, Boston MA, as assistant engineer, from when he was until 1916 filtration chemist, the Municipal Engineering Department, the Panama Canal Zone. Upon return to the USA, Waring was then until 1926 assistant engineer, the Ohio Department of Health, Columbus OH, taking over until his retirement in the early 1960s as chief engineer. Waring was member of the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE, and the American Water Works Association AWWA. He was Fellow of the American Public Health Association APHA. The philosophy of Waring, and part of his legacy, was Reasonableness. This word was the cornerstone of his success in Ohio. The old-school sanitary engineer stepped into practical solutions to the problems offered during which environmental control has been greatly developed. His record of accomplishment, measurable in water plants and waste water treatment plants, and to a lesser degree in the installation of other public health projects, rated him to esteem of other state sanitary engineers. He was among the nation’s pioneers in sanitary engineering. On Ohio’s rivers, too many small cities still discharged in 1960 waste water to the next town downstream. Waring’s philosophy of reasonableness was paying off, because in all Ohio there were in 1960 only 200,000 people not yet connected to a treatment plant. The Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission was formed in 1948; it was and still is a promotional and coordinating agency, having legal authority. Waring described the regulatory process to prove the reasonableness of it. He stated how well the philosophy of pollution control was finally made understandable to the public. Waring seemed to know each sewage treatment plant of his state like the back off his hand. He kept his fingers on new processes, research, and development. Technical developments as the aerobic digestion plants gave him satisfaction. But his greatest satisfaction came from his engineering success. Anonymous (1959). Waring, Frederick H. Who’s who in engineering 8: 2585. Lewis: New York. Anonymous (1960). How to stop water pollution. Engineering News-Record 164(Mar.3): 55-58. P Waring, F.H. (1930). Types of water supply and water treatment in Ohio cities. Columbus OH. Waring, F.H. (1955). Public water supplies and control of water pollution in Ohio. Ohio State University: Columbus OH.