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Richard Hazen
Pages 56-61

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... A son of the distinguished consulting engineer Allen Hazen, a pioneer in the water field, Dick Hazen was cofounder of the NewYork City environmental engineering consulting firm Hazen and Sawyer in 1951. He had studied at Dartmouth College, where he earned a B.A.
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From page 58...
... An example was Greensboro, North Carolina, where he was first brought in to make a rate study and was thereafter retained to design three dams, two water treatment plants, and two wastewater treatment plants. His projects included a field study for filtration of water from the first major water system for the City of NewYork, the Croton, which Allen Hazen had recommended be done in 1900; design of the water supply and treatment system for the Detroit Metropolitan region; and water supplies or
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From page 59...
... Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974, he served the National Research Council from 1977 to 1980 and again in 1982-1984 as a member of the committee appointed to review the Corps of Engineers Metropolitan Washington Area Water Supply Study. The respect in which he was held in the profession is attested to by his election to the presidencies of the American Institute of Consulting Engineers and the Metropolitan (NewYork)
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From page 60...
... Richard Hazen had been the husband of the late Elizabeth Shute; father of daughters Putnam Gorman and Molly Hazen Gillam and son, the late Richard (Chris) Hazen, Jr.; and grandfather of Mary Gorman, Timothy Gillam, Jonathan GilIam, and Richard Hazen III.
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