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2216 Brookwood Lane

Salina, Kansas
J. Neil Jednoralski, P.E. Water Resources / Ag / Civil Engineer 41-Yrs
Total Experience
Hydrologist / Hydraulic Engine
er
BS a" Agriculture
Professional Engineer: KS,
BS a" Agricultural Engineering
IL,
Soil and Water Conservation Engineering (major)
CO
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Feb 1970
Commission USAR CE (AROTC), Feb 1970
Graduate work a" Environment Geology
Climatology & Meteorology
University of Illinois, Springfield
Attended COE HEC training on HEC-1 / HEC-2, Davis CA a" representing St Louis CO
E
USDA a" NRCS a" TSP-03-1221 (KS, CO)
Expert Drainage Witness a" 4 Cases (3 in Kansas) 1974 / 2000
Kansas Association for Floodplain Management (KAFM)
Association of State Flood Plain Managers (ASFPM) member (17-yrs)
American Society of Agricultural & Biological Engineers (ASABE) member (40-yrs)
National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) member (39-yrs)
(Past Board / Officer a" Smoky Valley Chapter, KSPE)
(Past President a" Golden Belt Chapter, KSPE)
American Society of Military Engineers (SAME) Life Member (38-yrs)
(Past President a" Air Capital Post, McConnell AFB, Wichita, K
S)
Middle Smoky Hill River / Big Creek Watershed Restoration and Protection Strateg
y
(WRAPS) a" Steering committee member
Kansas Association for Wetlands and Streams (KAWS) a" Dakota Hills Chapter a" St
eering
committee member
Sierra Club a" Life Member
Former member of the City of Salina a" Smoky Hill River Development Committee (t
o make
river thru Salina look more like a river a" committee dissolve
d)
Former member & chair of the Smoky Hill / Saline River Basin Advisory Committee
Neil moved to 2216 Brookwood Lane, Salina, KS, in November 1977, (32-yr resident
of Salina and Saline County). While growing up in Chicago, Neil spent two to th
ree weeks each summer on his uncleas farm, just north of Lucas, KS. Neil remembe
rs the 1951 flood in the Kansas River basin and watched the construction of Wils
on and Glen Elder Reservoirs. So the move to Kansas was an easy one.

Upon graduation from Illinois, Neil started work as a hydraulic engineer with th
e Illinois Department of Public Works and Buildings (ILDOT), Division of Waterwa
ys. After two months, Neil was called up for two years active duty in the Corps
of Engineers, serving 6-months with the 97th Engineer Battalion (Construction) a
t Fort Riley, KS, as a platoon leader of two construction platoons, and serving
11-months with the 36th Engineer Battalion (Construction) in the Mekong Delta of
South Vietnam, as the Office-In-Charge of survey, the Officer-In-Charge of qual
ity control, the battalion construction officer, the battalion civil engineer, a
nd assistant battalion S-3 (operations officer).The 36th was building 65 kilomet
ers of asphalt road and 22 bridges, with 3 portable asphalt plants and 2 concret
e batch plants. The 36th was the first engineer battalion in Vietnam to construc
t precast concrete aTa beam bridges. Most of the precast bridges were being buil
t by RMK- BRJ (Raymond, Morrison & Knutson, Brown & Root, & Jones). The 36th Eng
r Bn (Const) received a Presidential Citation for work in South Vietnam, 1971.
Upon returned to the states, Neil rejoined the Illinois DOT, Division of Water R
esources. He setup and ran the state flood surveillance and forecasting program
during the 1973 Mississippi and Illinois River floods. He was involved with the
Illinois Civil Defense order to evacuate behind some Illinois Mississippi River
levees. Neil also setup the criteria for permitting structures along the Lake Mi
chigan shoreline. The State of Illinois owns the bed of Lake Michigan along the
shoreline, to hold in trust for the people of Illinois.
After leaving the State, Neil worked on the first of four expert witness cases h
e has been involved with (all for the plaintiffs). This case was the Plaintiffs
vs Randall Park Mall, Cleveland, Ohio, and Ed DeBartelo, Jr, involving excess ru
noff from a proposed super mall.
Left because individual running consulting firm, even though, former Professor o
f Engineering at the University of Illinois and former Chief Engineer of the Ill
inois Division of Water Resources, was not a licensed engineer of the state.
For the next 10-years, Neil was involved with HUD, then FEMA, Flood Insurance St
udies, first in Pennsylvania, that Indiana, and finally Kansas. While in Pennsyl
vania, Neil setup a critical path of the tasks necessary to complete the initial
flood insurance studies. HUD, Washington, DC, reviewed the tasks and many were
used in the FIS progress reporting procedures. In the revised the HUD Guidelines
and Specifications, one of Neilas communityas in Pennsylvania was used as an ex
ample. Neil moved from Pennsylvania to Indiana to setup a similar FIS program fo
r another engineering firm, and finally to Kansas to do the same again. The comm
unities in Kansas, which Neil was involved with, are Junction City, Geary County
; Chapman, Enterprise, Abilene, Solomon, Dickinson County; New Cambria, Salina,
Saline County; Ellsworth; Hays, Ellis, Ellis County; McPherson, Moundridge, McPh
erson County; Harvey County, Clearwater, Haysville, Kechi; Garfield; Bazine, and
Ness City. Neil was involved as the Study Contractor (SC), and Greenhorne & OaM
ara as the Technical Evaluation Contractor (TEC) reviewed many of these studies.

Having been involved with the Salina and Saline County Flood Insurance Studies,
while at Bucher, Willis & Ratliff, Salina, the City of Salina contracted for a s
tudy to evaluate how Wilson & Companyas South Salina Drainage Study would change
the Salina / Saline County Flood Insurance Studies, if built. Three phases of w
ork were proposed, and the changes in the FEMA FIS for each phase were shown. Th
is study was submitted by Neil to FEMA and the Kansas City District, Corps of En
gineers for review. FEMA issued a Conditional Letter of Map Revision (CLOMR) for
the South Salina area. The CLOMR said, if the improvements were made, the FEMA
maps would change.
In the FIS for Saline and Saline County, the Kansas City District, Corps of Engi
neers, certified the Salina levees as providing 100-year flood protection, witho
ut the required 3-ft of freeboard. In preparing the FISas, Neil field surveyed t
he x-sectons along Dry Creek used for the Dry Creek detailed study. During the s
pring floods in 2007 on Dry Creek and Mulberry Creek, the freeboard question cam
e into play, when a 100-year discharge caused the levee openings along Dry Creek
and Mulberry Creek to be sandbagged close, and Ohio Street closed. This shows t
hat the Salina levee protection system can not be certified for FEMA 100-yr prot
ection.
Laid-off for un-published aLetter to the Editora to the Salina Journal, due to p
ressure from City Engineering Office of no future work to consulting firm.
Neil worked in Wichita, KS, for about 14-years, where he was involved with munic
ipal projects, including the analysis of the Wichita Equus Beds well field (55 w
ells) and Cheney Reservoir water supply for Wichita; the Wichita Drainage Canal
and 3rd Street erosion / channel improvement projects; numerous subdivision proj
ects; and three expert witness cases. The first involved the farmeras compensati
on from the Corps of Engineers, Halstead, KS, levee project. The Corps have misu
sed HEC-2 and ignored the FEMA a" Harvey County FIS, which Neil had prepared. Th
e last two court cases involved flooded plaintiffs against the City of Wichita.
Neil had prepared the preliminary South Seneca drainage design and exhibit showi
ng what could happen if the City proceeded with their construction procedure and
schedule, without building a drainage outlet channel. The City said let it drai
n as before, but when one changes a rural road section from 2-lanes to 4-lane cu
rb & gutter section, the street is lowered and water flows differently. Neil pre
pared the improvement drainage plans, and to get the Kansas Department of Agricu
lture, Division of Water Resources channel permit, added a note saying an outlet
channel was needed. After most of the project was completed, it rained 6 to 8-i
nches, and many homes were flooded. After the first trial, the outlet drainage w
as completed, and it rained again 6 to 8-inches. There were no problems this tim
e. The City was found to have used their discretionary authority in designing th
e project, BUT created and maintained a drainage nuisance and was responsible fo
r the damage. Neil did not want to testify, but was subpoenaed by the plaintiffs
.
Neil worked on the McConnell AFB base wide drainage study, the west gate drainag
e, and the emergency drainage design to prevent future flooding of the Air Mobil
ity Command Building, plus containing a KC-135 fuel spill on the east parking ra
mp.
The City of Kinsley, Kansas, was almost completely covered by the FEMA-FIS 100-y
r floodplain, restricting development. South of the BNSF tracks, a large portion
of the City was also in the Arkansas River FEMA floodway. The City applied for
a FEMA Flood Mitigation Grant to reduce the FEMA floodplain in the city limits a
nd allow for new development. The proposed project would divert all but 1000 cfs
low flow along Big Coon Creek from passing thru Kinsley. High flow in the Arkan
sas River, also broke over the left (north /west) bank of the river into Big Coo
n Creek, and flowed into Kinsley. A high flow diversion channel was proposed abo
ut 3 to 4 miles southwest of Kinsley. Twenty-five (25) Arkansas River x-sections
and a proposed high flow diversion channel were surveyed by GPS procedures on S
tate Plane coordinate system, so that that USGS quadrangle sheets and aerial pho
tos could be combined with the plotted survey data. The before and after project
10-, 50-, 100-, and 500-year discharges were run using HEC- RAS, to review the
project results. Something discovered during the analysis was that the south cit
y of limits of Kinsley, along US-183, was 19-ft lower than the Arkansas River, a
t the US-183 bridge,
south of Kinsley. Kenneth Dupree and Ron Sitts were very helpful during the anal
ysis. The project required review by an archaeologist due to possible Santa Fe T
rail ruts in CRP ground and the Kansas City District, Corps of Engineers for 404
permitting related to wetlands and bank outflows. The project would have remove
d the 100-year floodplain and floodway from Kinsley, south of the BNSF tracks. H
ydrology, hydraulics, and mapping files were supplied to FEMA and the Tulsa Dist
rict, Corps of Engineers for further review.
Neil has also worked on getting the FEMA CLOMR to build the Wichita Hyatt Regenc
y Hotel; on getting the FEMA CLOMR, KC a" COE 404 permit, Tulsa a" COE flood pro
ject permit, KDA a"DWR permit, and KDHE construction site permit to build Explor
ation Place; on getting the FEMA-CLOMR, KC-COE 404 permit, and KDA-DWR permit fo
r the Wichita Drainage Canal improvements; and FEMA CLOMR for the Gypsum and Dry
Creek discharges in Wichita. Neil designed the Dry Creek improvements at the VA
 Hospital / Tilleras Clinic, the Oliver / Bluff storm detention system, and outl
et system for the Kellogg / Oliver freeway project, as a sub to HNTB.
Laid-off for not committing perjury, as pressured, in Court on the Wichita-South
Seneca Drainage Cases.
Since joining Kirkham Michael in February 2002, Neil has become the distribution
engineer for Ellsworth County Rural Water District #1 (Post Rock RWD), which co
nsists of a high service pump station, ten booster pump stations, fifty-nine pre
ssure reducing valve sites, eleven flow control valves, eight system storage tan
ks, 9 community storage tanks, serving eight communities, serving three other ru
ral water districts, serving parts of ten counties, and having 1250 miles main d
istribution lines, plus additional service lines. All add-ons and distribution s
ystem modifications are reviewed by using EPANET2 computer runs. Trying to keep
the system operating is a real challenge.
Neil has worked on the proposed new Metro State College of Denver, Auraria Campu
s, new dormitories, which are in the floodway fringe, by-pass flow area, of the
South Platte River, just southwest of downtown Denver. The original FEMA-FIS dat
a was prepared by Wright Water Engineers and modified for the construction of th
e PEPSI Center (Nuggets arena). The study results showed that the project could
be built with zero rise in BFE elevation, and was supplied to the Urban Drainage
and Flood Control District of Denver.
Neil has designed a drainage system to relieve the flooding problems along the w
est side of Bopp Boulevard, in Lakin, Kansas, for Kearny County. A subdivision w
as constructed, along the west side of Bopp Blvd, in the Lakin Watershed Distric
tas Floodway #4. Bopp Blvd would pond the storm runoff in the subdivision west o
f the road and surcharge the sanitary sewer, causing sewer backup in other parts
of Lakin. About 120 acres, west of Bopp Blvd, was surveyed and tied to section
corners. A hydrologic and hydraulic analysis was prepared for Sand Creek, to see
if Sand Creek added to the flood problems. Floodway #4 was drained to Sand cree
k via a 54a RCP, with flap gate. If the flap gate was closed, the left (northeas
t) bank of Sand Creek was higher than the calculated 100-yr water surface elevat
ion. Thus, Sand Creek would not break over the left bank. A second hydrologic an
d hydraulic analysis was prepared for the remaining drainage area of Bopp Blvd.
This 100-yr discharge could be taken under the BNSF tracks, to Sand Creek at a l
ower WSE. Design has been completed. BNSF permit received. ROW was been purchase
d.
Kirkham Michael a" Ellsworth is one of three consulting firms, which provide NRC
S a" Kansas with design support on livestock waste management facilities. Presen
tly Ellsworth has finished or is working on 24 NRCS Task Orders. Neil is a certi
fied Technical Service Provider (TSP) for NRCS in Kansas, Colorado, and Iowa.
Neil has also been involved with the Kansas City District, Corps of Engineers, O
rganizational Parking / Child Development Center design / build contract at Fort
Riley, KS, with a local utility / paving contractor.
Neil is involved with the operation plan and quality assurance plan on eleven la
ndfill designs and permits in central and western Kansas. He was involved with t
he MSW closure of the Harvey County landfill, north of Wichita, and the design o
f sixteen methane gas wells and gas collection system at the landfill.
With the help of the Phoenix office, Neil has completed the plans and bid an $82
0,000 construction contract for water and sewer system to the new aJACAMa Chemic
al plant site and Kansas Ethanol site, south of Lyons, KS.