Mr.
Melton has a wide variety of expertise in civil engineering and environmental
issues. His breadth of experience
includes production land development, regulatory permitting of land development,
homebuilding, marina development, innovative stormwater treatment development,
federal and state stormwater treatment research, construction management,
environmental projects coordination, recreational parks planning, and biologic
consultation and restoration. Major
clients and groups that he has worked for or closely with include Nash Phillips
Copus, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Bon Tierre II, Barton
Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District, Harken Partnership, Red Roof Inn,
Sandy Creek Investors, Silver Creek Partners, Ohio Blackhawk, Travis County,
HEB, Environmental Protection Agency, Texas Commerce Bank, the City of Austin,
the J.J. Pickle Research Institute (see list of significant projects) etc.
Mr.
Melton has worked as a production land development engineer on residential and
commercial projects since 1984. This
experience includes 6 years of development plans review and permitting for the
Lower Colorado River Authority’s Environmental Protection Division. Highlights of Mr. Melton’s career includes
master planning of large developments greater than 1500 acres. These master plans involved utility planning
for water and wastewater services, hydrologic investigation of floodplain
locations for waterways with flows in excess of 100,000 cubic feet per second,
and regional stormwater planning. Mr.
Melton has also permitted, or participated in the permitting of 500 slips and
ancillary marina development on Lake Travis.
Mr. Melton has also been fortunate enough to be able to comment on
public rule making for development regulations concerning land development,
marina development, and stormwater pollution for the Lower Colorado River
Authority and the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission.
Major topics of expertise that Mr. Melton
has acquired during this period include street, utility, drainage and water
quality design, marina design, stormwater quality treatment modeling, lift
station design, soils investigation, entitlement investigation, land use
(Zoning) planning, Zoning changes, Municipal Utility District (MUD) and Public
Utility District (PUD) development and changes, land use variances, Utility
Service Agreements, a change to the Austin Land Development Code concerning
land use categories, and several environmentally challenging engineering
designs where bureaucratic precedents were changed to accommodate
environmentally significant projects.
Mr. Melton’s work with the Lower Colorado
River Authority included Project Management for $850,000 in Stormwater
Treatment research grants, including design and construction. The focus of these grants was to determine
innovative stormwater pollutant removal best management practices and to scientifically and statistically
prove their performance under natural conditions. These tasks included academic research into state of the art
stormwater treatment and design, stormwater sampling design and implementation,
laboratory analysis design and implementation and Quality Assurance Plan
Preparation and approval. Mr. Melton’s
research ensemble consisted of 5 structures, 12 automated samplers, and 9 flow
meters located in 6 sampling stations.
Native plants and natural plant
assemblages are another topic of major professional endowment. Mr. Melton has considerable experience with
native vegetation. He has consulted on
projects for native plant restoration, and native grass revegetation. He has restored areas with little or exotic
vegetation to natural plant assemblages.
He has also interjected native plant restoration concepts into
regulatory bureaucratic development processes.
Additionally, he has developed several aquatic ecosystems using wetland
plants native to this area. And finally, Mr. Melton’s personal native plant
gardens have been toured on local public television’s The Central Texas
Gardener, in the Austin Community Gardens Annual Spring Tour, as well as being
featured in two newspaper articles.
Rainwater Harvesting design has also
become one of Mr. Melton’s skills through the development of the Schumann
residence 15,000 gallon rainwater harvesting system. This skill was easily enhanced with Mr. Melton’s knowledge and
experience with water balancing and runoff modeling of historic rainfall over a
greater than 100 year period.
Through Mr. Melton’s personal interests
and professional relationships with environmental organizations, he has been
able to foster a number of other environmentally significant skills for the
land development professional. Among
these are endangered species surveys for golden cheeked warblers, black capped
vireos and Houston toads. In addition, Mr. Melton has assisted on prescribed
burns and captured white-tailed deer for relocation. Mr. Melton is also quite
familiar with wetlands issues and permitting requirements for wetlands and
endangered species including cave invertebrates.
Another facet of Mr. Melton’s career
includes least toxic pest management.
This portion of his career revolved around the LCRA Pest Management
Committee (PMC). The LCRA has a concept
of environmental leadership. This
concept was demonstrated with the PMC and the way the LCRA dealt with pests
within their 52 acre district that includes 20,000 miles of electrical
distribution lines, 7 Highland Lakes with 52,000 acres of water 27,000 acres of
public land, and 200 miles of irrigation canals. The goal of the PMC was to provide LCRA with the least toxic pest
management techniques possible for all of the pests within their purvey. These pests ranged from alligators, to
alligator weed, from cockroaches to cockscomb, from oak trees to oak wilt. Mr. Melton served as the Project Manager for
the development of the LCRA Pest Management Plan Manual, and as the chair of
the New Product Request Committee.
Rio Rincon In-stream Gravel Mining Dynamic Reserve Evaluation,
Costa Rica
Bullick Hollow Dam Dispute and Demolition,
Austin, Texas
TxDOT/CTRMA US290/SH71
Improvements EIS Evaluation,
Austin, Texas
Peaceful Hill Zoning Dispute,
Austin, Texas
Springdale Commons Urban Infill, 18 units,
Austin, Texas
Rio Tigre In-stream Gravel Mining EIS Evaluation,
Osa Penisula, Costa Rica
TxDOT US218/US1604 Improvements EIS Evaluation,
San Antonio, Texas
Dry Creek 36 inch Wastewater Interceptor,
Austin, Texas
Lost Pines Colorado River Park Artificial Wetlands Creation,
Bastrop, Texas
Trails at 620 Traffic Evaluation,
Austin, Texas
Northshore Marina,
, 308 slips, Lake Travis, Texas
Sandy
Creek Marina, 115 slips,
Lake Travis, Texas
Jones
Harbor Marina, 52 slips,
Lake Travis, Texas
Northlake
Hills Marina, 25 slips,
Lake Travis, Texas
Northshore
Residential Subdivision,
Jonestown, Texas
Northlake
Hills Residential Subdivision,
Jonestown, Texas
Rudy's Round Rock, Stormwater System Mods,
Round Rock, Texas
Bingo!,
Round Rock, Texas
Travis Country ASID Parcel Evaluation,
Austin, Texas
Kinney Mues Urban Infill, 8 Units,
Austin, Texas
RG 620 Partnership Stroup Circle, 10 Commercial Lots,
Lakeway, Texas
The Oaks RV Park, Flooding Evaluation from Bastrop ISD,
Bastrop, Texas
Northlake
Hills Residential Subdivision,
Jonestown, Texas
Fairways
of Blackhawk, Residential Subdivision, Drainage and Utility Improvements, Pflugerville, Texas
Meadows
of Blackhawk, Residential Subdivision, Drainage and Utility Improvements, Pflugerville, Texas
Austin’s
Colony, Residential Subdivision, Drainage and Utility Improvements, Austin, Texas
Riverforest,
Residential Subdivision, Drainage and Utility Improvements, New Braunfels, Texas
Riverforest,
Offsite water Improvements,
New Braunfels, Texas
Cottonwood
Shores Road Rehabilitation,
Cottonwood Shores, Texas
Henly
Ranch Road Rehabilitaion,
Henly, Texas
Blue
Hole RV Park, Park Planning,
Wimberly, Texas
Schumann
Residence Rainwater Harvesting, 15,000 gallons, Dripping Springs, Texas
Volente
Peak ESA, Jonestown,
Texas
Huston
Tillotson College, Master Planning,
Austin, Texas
Oakmont
Crossing Drainage Improvements,
Round Rock, Texas
Fern
Bluff Drainage Improvements
Round Rock, Texas
Stoneybrook,
Residential Subdivision, Drainage, Utilities, Pflugerville, Texas
Lake
Creek, Residential Subdivision, Drainage, Utilities, Round Rock, Texas
Maconda
Park Drainage Improvements,
Austin, Texas
Block
House Creek Residential Subdivision, Drainage, Utilities, Leander, Texas
Texas
Commerce Bank Northcross, Sitework, Drainage, Utilities, Austin, Texas
Meadows
of Brushy Creek, Residential Subdivision, Drainage, Utilities, Round Rock, Texas
The
Hillside at Brushy Creek, Residential subdivision, Drainage, Utilities, Round Rock, Texas
The
Woods at Brushy Creek, Residential Subdivision, Drainage, Utilities, Round Rock, Texas
The
Avery Tract Flood Plain Investigation,
Austin, Texas
Dry
Creek Culvert Modeling,
Austin Texas, (Westlake)
Dry Creek Culvert Modeling, Austin, Texas,
(Travis County)
Shepherd
Mountain Plaza Office Condominiums,
Sitework, Drainage, Utilities, Austin, Texas
Shepherd
Mountain Plaza Office Complex, Sitework,
Drainage, Utilities,
Austin, Texas
Shepherd
Mountain, Residential Subdivision,
Drainage and Utility Improvements
Austin, Texas
Exxon
Service Station Construction, MLK and Guadalupe, Sitework, Drainage, Utilities, Austin, Texas
Exxon
Service Station Construction, William Cannon and S. First,
Sitework, Drainage, Utilities,
Austin, Texas
Dessau
Industrial Park Master Plan,
Austin, Texas
Dessau
Industrial Park, Preliminary Plan and Zoning, Austin, Texas
Grandview
Hills Master Plan,
Austin, Texas
Parmer
Center Master Plan,
Austin, Texas
Parmer
Center Preliminary Plan and Zoning,
Austin, Texas
North
Central Estates, Final Plat, and Regional Stormwater, Austin, Texas
Children’s
Courtyard, Austin, Texas
USA
Mini-Storage, Sitework,
Drainage, Utilities, Austin, Texas
Lakepointe
Section IV, Residential Subdivision,
Drainage and Utility Improvements, Austin, Texas
HEB
21 Water Quality Plan,
Austin, Texas
Redroof
Inn IH35, Sitework, Drainage, Utilities, Austin, Texas
Covert
Ford Dealership, Sitework, Drainage, Utilities, Texas 183, Austin, Texas
Tres
Palacios Landfill,
Palacios, Texas
Days
Inn, Sitework, Drainage, Utilities,
Austin, Texas
Lower
Colorado River Authority (LCRA) Pest Management Plan, Project Manager, LCRA, Travis County, Texas
Nonpoint
Source Pollution Control Manual Technical Revisions for Temp. Erosion Controls, LCRA, Austin, Texas
Nonpoint
Source Pollution Control Manual Technical Revisions for Best Management
Practices, LCRA, Austin, Texas
Nonpoint
Source Pollution Control Manual Technical Revisions for Dredge and Fill, LCRA, Austin, Texas
Nonpoint
Source Pollution Control Manual Technical Revisions for Temporary Erosion
Controls, LCRA, Austin,
Texas,
Environmental
Protection Agency Section 319 Grant for Innovative BMP Analysis,
Austin, Texas
Texas
Water Development Board Grant for Wetland/Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis, Austin, Texas
McGregor
Park Peat/Sand Filter,
LCRA, Austin, Texas
Gloster
Bend Recreation Area Planning,
LCRA, Travis County
Shaefer
Bend Recreation Area Planning
– LCRA, Burnet County
Turkey
Bend Recreation Area Planning
- LCRA, Burnet County
Cedar
Point Recreation Area Planning,
LCRA, Llano County
The
Narrows, Recreation Area Planning,
LCRA, Travis County
Smithville
Park Recreation Area Planning,
LCRA, Bastrop County
Columbus
City Park Recreation Area Planning,
LCRA, Columbus County
McGregor
Park Recreation Area Planning,
Travis County Parks and Recreation, Travis County
Windy
Point Recreation Area Planning,
Travis county Parks and Recreation, Travis County
Mansfield
Dam Recreation Area Planning,
Travis County Parks and Recreation, Travis County
