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Jack Wittman, Ph.D., CGWP
President

Dr. Wittman has written research reports, technical guidance documents, and journal articles. He has designed and taught graduate level courses in soil science and engineering, undergraduate courses in groundwater modeling and environmental methods, several short courses on water supply modeling, and presented a short course about the use of models in environmental regulation. He has served as a regular consultant to the Electric Power Research Institute, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in relation to implementing various provisions to the Safe Drinking Water Act, and he is a governors appointee to the TMDL guidance committee.

Jack is actively involved with committees of the ASTM (Committee D18 on Soil and Rock), the AWWA Research Foundation, and the Indiana Rural Water Association. He is a past president of the Indiana Water Resources Association (2002). Dr. Wittman has made presentations at national and international conferences about the role of modeling and the use of public data to determine susceptibility of drinking water supplies.

Prior to founding WHPA, Inc., Dr. Wittman was a Senior Research Scientist in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University (Indianapolis), a Senior Research Hydrologist at Indiana University (Bloomington), a private consultant in Washington State, the Technical Program Manager for the Yakima Indian Nation Nuclear Waste Office, the Associate Director of the Utah High Level Nuclear Waste Office, and a drinking water treatment plant operator in Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr. Wittman has a B.S. in Environmental Studies and a M.S. in Watershed Science from Utah State University, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Indiana University, Bloomington.