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PAUL D
HAN EY
1911-1990
BY DWIGHT F METZLER
PAUL D HANEY an internationally recognized authority in
environmental engineering, cliecl on May 5, 1990, at the age of
seventy-nine. He was a retired partner of Black & Veatch.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 5, 1911, he was
educated in the local schools. Paul receiver! his B.S. in chemical
engineering from the University of Kansas ( KU. ) in 1933 and his
S.M. in sanitary engineering in 1937 from Harvard University,
where he stuclied under Gordon Fair. He was elected to Delta
Omega, the honorary public health society.
In a career spanning nearly sixty years, Paul taught at two
universities, guicled surface water quality stuclies for the nation,
and made major contributions to the theory and practice of
water purification ant! wastewater treatment. He was a teacher,
researcher, and practicing engineer, whose declication to the
profession was recognized by his peers. They elected him to high
office in the Water Pollution Control Federation President,
1968-1969), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE;
chair, Sanita~yEngineeringDivision, 1966-1967), and theArner-
icanWaterWorksAssociation (chair, Purification Division, 1958;
director, 1964-1967) .
He was elected to the National Acaclemy of Engineering in
1974. Before and after his election, he served on numerous
committees of the National Research Council. He was a member
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MEMORIAL TRIBUTES
of the Assembly of Engineering, the Potomac Estuary Study
Committees, and the Subcommittee on Water Supply of the
Division of Meclical Sciences' Committee on Sanitary Engineer-
ing ant! Environment.
Paul began his career as an instructor in sanitary engineering
at the University of Kansas and an engineer for the Kansas State
Boarcl of Health. In the latter capacity he supervised the Kansas
Water and Sewage Laboratory. This experience caused him to
insist on factual accuracy as a basis for problem solving. Through-
out his career, he encouraged and guided many young engi-
neers as they advancecl in their profession. Subsequently, they
moved into leadership positions in teaching, private practice,
and the public sector.
Paul left Kansas in 1947 to teach at the School of Public
Health, University of North Carolina. A year later he was com-
missioned in the Regular Corps of the U.S. Public Health
Service. He was assigned to the Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineer-
ing Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. For six years he directed nation-
wide stream quality studies as authorized by Congress in 1948.
The findings from these studies provided the basis for the first
federal law representing a comprehensive national effort to
clean up surface waters (1956) and provided limited construc-
tion grants to municipalities.
He joined the consulting firm of Black & Veatch in 1954 and
was elevated to partner in 1956. He directed investigations and
guided designs in sewage and industrial waste treatment and in
acivanced wastewater treatment for some of the nation's largest
cities in the Midwest and the East. He also directed water supply
and treatment investigations, including a landmark study for
Washington, D.C., that led to a one-million-gallon-a-day pilot
plant designed to remove a wide variety of toxins from the lower
Potomac River.
After he retired in 1978 as a Black & Veatch partner, he
continuer! as a technical adviser to the firm's designers and
researched inquiries from associates and friends. He read widely
and was often called a "walking encyclopedia." He also taught
medical students at the University of Kansas School of Medicine
through 198S, and found great satisfaction in taking them to
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observe water supply and wastewater projects. He served in the
KU. Chancellor's Club and on various committees of the School
of Engineering.
Paul wrote manuals for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the
Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Inte-
rior. He served as a consultant to four federal departments and
was a member of more than a dozen committees for establishing
criteria and setting standards for water quality.
Paul was always a teacher who enjoyed sharing his scholarship
with others. His forty-f~ve published papers ranged from the
analysis of broad environmental policy issues to highly technical
discussion of water treatment. One of his earliest papers dealt
with dual water systems. He was a major contributor or senior
author for four books: The ASCE Manual of Practice for Sewage
Treatment Plant Design (1959~; the American Society of Civil
Engineers, American Water Works Association, Conference of
State Sanitary Engineers book, Water Treatment Plant Design
~ ~ 969 ); The Process Design Manualfor Phosphorus Removal ~ 1 97 1 );
and the Rampage book, Water Duality and Treatment Published bY
McGraw-Hill in 1971. These books and articles are user} by
engineers around the world.
Paul was concerned with the improvement of civil engineer-
ing practice. His influence on the profession was apparent as he
served on the program committees for annual meetings of
national organizations. He is creclited with the creation and
development of the technical programs plan used by the Water
Pollution Control Federation for its annual meetings.
Paul was honored repeatedly for his contributions. The Arner-
ican Water Works Association awarded him its prize for the
outstanding water supply paper of the year three times (1955,
1966, and 1970~. He received its Goodell Prize in 1955, George
Warren Fuller Award in 195S, honorary membership in 1970,
and Divens Medal in 1971.
In abolition to the presidency, his Water Pollution Control
Federation honors included the Arthur Sidney Bedell Award
~ 1970), the Charles Alvin Emerson Award ~ 1975), the William I.
Orchard Distinguished Service Medal (1979), and honorary
membership in 1977.
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The American Academy of Environmental Engineers present-
ed him with the Eclward l. Cleary Award in 1977, and the
University of Kansas its Distinguished Engineering Service Award
in 1983.
In addition to memberships in nine professional organiza-
tions, he was a member of Sigma Xi, Tan Beta Pi, the Cosmos
Club of Washington, D.C., and the Carriage Club of Kansas City.
Paul's legacy to the engineering profession will long be remem-
bereci. His originality and creativity led to better understanding
of water-related problems and to important achievements in
water purification and treatment. Through engineering educa-
tion, research, consulting, and management, he did much for
the improvement, preservation, and proper use of America's
water resources.
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