Professional Experience
Mr. Eshelman has more than 24 years of experience in roadway, site development, stormwater, water and wastewater design, study and management. His project management responsibilities include contract negotiations, project scheduling, technical supervision, and client communication. He has been involved with projects relating to stormwater hydrology and hydraulics, water distribution and treatment, sanitary gravity sewers, and force mains. He has been the project manager or lead engineer for construction document preparation, feasibility studies, utility master planning, and floodplain studies, and is experienced with various hydrologic and hydraulic computer software programs, including HEC-1, HEC-2, WSPRO, Pond Pack, XP-SWMM, TR20, AdICPR, HEC-6, Eagle Point Sanitary Module, Kentucky Pipe Program, and Cybemet Water Distribution Model.

Project Experience
STORMWATER/LEVEE

Stormwater Master Plan, City of Maryland Heights, Maryland Heights, Missouri. Project Principal for the assessment of 27 miles of urban stream. Assessment will identify degradation and recommend appropriate biostabilization methods to address erosion and downcutting.

100-Year Levee, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Lead Engineer. Preparation of a 100-year earthen levee along both sides of Ash Creek at Scott Air Force Base Reservoir

500-Year Levee, St. Louis, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Preparation of construction documents for a 500-year earthen levee on the Missouri River at the St. Louis City Water Treatment Plant at Howard Bend.

Ash Creek Levee Upgrade, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District, St. Clair County, Illinois. Engineer. Design of upgrades to the Ash Creek levee system in St. Clair County. The 100-year earthen levee upgrade included two corrugated metal arch stream crossings.

Chesterfield Valley Master Drainage Plan, Chesterfield, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Using the AdICPR hydrologic program to design drainage channels, reservoirs, and culverts for 4,300 acres of levee-protected area. The system was designed to contain the 100-year, 24-hour rainfall event.

Chesterfield Valley Ponding Study , Chesterfield, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Using a custom hydrologic computer program to model 4,300 acres of levee-protected area in order to determine the limits of 100-year ponding. The project included a coincidental probability analysis. The results were submitted to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for use in modifying floodplain maps.

Chesterfield Valley Stormwater Pump Stations, Chesterfield, Missouri. Project Manager. Design and construction document preparation of three 60,000-gallon-per-minute stormwater pump stations. The project included design of concrete intake structures, submersible stormwater pumps, and discharge piping over an existing levee. One pump station required the design of 2,000 feet of double 48-inch gravity pipes to transmit the discharge from the levee to the Missouri River.

Coldwater Creek, Floodplain Study and Design, Breckenridge Hills, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Design and floodplain study of 3,000 feet of Coldwater Creek, a major stormwater collector stream that included several bridges. The project involved the use of HEC-1 and HEC-2 programs and the preparation of construction documents for a reinforced concrete channel.

Detention Ponds for MetroLink Park n’ Rides, St. Louis, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Design of two stormwater detention ponds using a custom routing program. The detention pond limited the post-development runoff to pre-development conditions.

Enclosed Storm Sewers for State of Missouri Division of Design and Construction, Various Locations, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Using a custom storm sewer design program to design several thousand feet of enclosed storm sewer for three mental health and correctional facilities. Portions of the system included combined storm and sanitary flow and involved storm sewers ranging from 8 inches to 36 inches in diameter.

Fee Fee Creek Biostabilization Design, Maryland Heights, Missouri. Project Manager. Biostabilization design of 2,000 feet of degraded channel. Project included Newbury Riffles, J-Hooks, Wrapped Earth, and Rock Toe.

Femme Osage Creek at the Schluersberg Road Bridge, Hydraulic Design and Floodplain Study, St. Louis County, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Hydraulic design and floodplain study of a bridge over the Femme Osage River. The project involved the use of the HEC-2 program and included a scour analysis for the bridge.

Hafner Place and Pennsylvania Avenue Bridges on River Des Peres, Hydraulic Design and Floodplain Study, University City, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Hydraulic design and floodplain study of two bridges over River Des Peres. The project involved the use of the HEC-2 and WSPRO programs.

Keifer Creek at Ballwin Fire Protection District Fire House No. 2, Floodplain Study, St. Louis County, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Floodplain study of a proposed development in the Keifer Creek floodplain. The project involved the use of the HEC-2 program.

Lincoln University Library, Jefferson City, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Design of a detention pond using a custom routing program. The detention pond limited the post-development runoff to pre-development conditions.

Mississippi River Floodplain Study, Kimmswick, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Preparation of a floodplain study to verify no impact to the Mississippi River as a result of the construction of a gaming facility. The project involved use of the HEC-2 hydraulic program.

Missouri River Floodplain Study, Randolph, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Preparation of a floodplain study to verify no impact to the Missouri River as a result of the construction of a gaming facility. The project involved use of the Kansas City Backwater and HEC-2 hydraulic programs and HEC-6 to analyze silt deposition in the area of the proposed boat.

Patterson Road Bridge and Gravois Road Bridge, Hydraulic Design and Floodplain Study, St. Louis County, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Hydraulic design and floodplain study of two bridges crossing major stormwater collector streams in St. Louis County. The project involved the use of the HEC-2 computer program.

Recreational Dam, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Little Rock District, Harrison, Arkansas. Design engineer for the design for a stream dam in Harrison Arkansas to provide wildlife habitat and recreation. The concrete gravity dam included maintenance access and a low flow release system.

River Des Peres Design and Floodplain Study, University City, Missouri. Project Manager. Design and floodplain study of 5,000 feet of River Des Peres, a major stormwater collector stream that included several bridges. The project involved the use of HEC-1 and HEC-2 programs and the preparation of construction documents for a trapezoidal rip-rap channel.

Wentzville Stormwater Master Plan, Wentzville, Missouri. Project Manager. Responsible for the development of the Stormwater Master Plan for the roughly 10-square-mile City of Wentzville. Project activities included inventory of 2,500 stormwater structures, hydraulic and hydrologic modeling, and development of a capital improvement plan for the City.

WATER/WASTEWATER
Chesterfield Valley Master Plan, Chesterfield, Missouri. Project Manager. Design of 10 miles (16 kilometers) of gravity sewer, 2 miles of force main, and 25 lift stations for a 4,000-acre area of proposed development using the Eagle Point Sanitary Sewer module.

Metro St. Louis Sewer District, Argonne Sanitary Relief, St. Louis, Missouri. Project Principal. The ultimate goal of the project is to eliminate SSOs and basement backups associated with the Argonne Subtrunk. While the hydraulic design required to accomplish this is important, the real challenge of the Argonne Sanitary Relief project is determining an alignment that will minimize impacts to the communities. Considering much of the project area is commercial and industrial with limited access, maintaining truck and commercial traffic during construction will be a high priority.

Metro St. Louis Sewer District, CSO Inline Flow Management, St. Louis, Missouri. Project Manager. Ongoing In Line Flow Management and Outfall Treatment Analysis project intended to further investigate several LTCP proposed management practices and control strategies.

Metro St. Louis Sewer District, DC-02 Deer Creek Sanitary Relief, St. Louis, Missouri. Project Principal. The project involves preparing a detailed work plan, gathering and evaluating useful data, performing field walkthroughs with the District, and developing several (10) Alternative Alignments.

Chesterfield Valley Master Plan, Chesterfield, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Design of 15 miles of watermain from 8 inches to 20 inches in diameter using the Cybernet water distribution program.

Coldwater Creek, Interceptor Sewers, Breckenridge Hills, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Design of 3,000 feet of interceptor sewers to alleviate residential sewer backups. The project included infiltration and inflow analysis, sanitary loading calculations and the hydraulic design of sewers up to 48 inches in diameter using a custom enclosed sewer design program. The project also included easement acquisition and construction document preparation.

Graystone Manor Sanitary Sewer Relief, Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. Project Manager. Design of a wet weather lift station system to alleviate basement backups. The project included computer modeling of the existing and proposed system, construction document preparation, cost estimating, and easement plat preparation. The final design included the lift station, a Tide Flex check valve, and a pump to discharge around the valve.

King George Sanitary Sewer Relief, Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, Manchester, Missouri. Project Manager. Design of 5,300 feet of 10- to 18-inch sanitary sewer to alleviate basement backups. The project included computer modeling the existing and proposed sewer system, preparation of construction documents, cost estimating, and easement plat preparation.

River Des Peres Interceptor Sewers, University City, Missouri. Project Manager. Design of 3,600 feet of interceptor sewers to alleviate residential sewer backups. The project included infiltration and inflow analysis, sanitary loading calculations, and the hydraulic design of sewers up to 36 inches in diameter using a custom enclosed sewer design program. The project also included easement acquisition and construction document preparation.

Separate Sewer Area Inflow/Infiltration Assessment, Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. Project Manager. Investigation of separate sewers throughout the District in order to locate sources of Rainfall Dependant Inflow and Infiltration (I/I). Investigation included smoke testing, dye flood testing, CCTV, dye tracing, flow meter analysis and hydraulic modeling.

Water Tower, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Lead Engineer. Design of water tower piping modifications to address a fault altitude valve system. The project included modeling of the base housing system and tower using the Kentucky Pipe program. The project also included design and construction documents for a laboratory facility within the tower base.

Water Treatment, Capodichino Navy Base, Naples, Italy. Project Manager. Design of a reverse osmosis water treatment plant, distribution pumps, and post-treatment storage tank. The treatment and distribution system was modeled using the Cybernet program.

Watermain Design, St. Charles, Missouri. Project Manager. Design of 1,200 feet of 16-inch watermain. The project included thrust restraint and air-relief design, easement acquisition, construction document preparation, and construction administration.

Williams Creek Sanitary Interceptor, Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, St. Louis County, Missouri. Project Manager. Design of 15,960 feet of 12 inch to 21-inch sanitary sewer and creek crossings. The project will discharge into the future Williams Creek Pump Station. Scope includes topographic and boundary surveys, design of the sewer, preparation of construction documents, a cost estimate and sewer easements plats. The project also includes evaluation of cultural resources through an area of the project that has been nominated to the National Register of Historic Places.

SITE DESIGN
City of Chesterfield, Missouri, Chesterfield Central Park, Chesterfield, Missouri. Project Principal. The 38-acre Central Park, located in Chesterfield, Missouri, includes interpretive trails, a riparian corridor with pathway, an amphitheater, a lake boat house, playgrounds, tennis courts and other amenities. The project also includes construction document preparation for certain amenities, followed by construction services.

Acute Care Psychiatric Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Design of driveways, parking lots, grading, water distribution, sanitary and storm sewers for a 10-acre site.

Brooking Park Skilled Care Nursing Facility, Chesterfield, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Design of a detention pond using a custom routing program. The detention pond limited the post-development runoff to pre-development conditions.

Central Park, Chesterfield, Missouri. Project Engineer. Design and construction document preparation of drives, parking, grading, drainage, drinking water supply, sanitary sewers, and stormwater drainage and detention for the park complex.

Chesterfield Valley Athletic Complex, Chesterfield, Missouri. Proejct Engineer. Design and construction document preparation of drives, parking, grading, drinking water supply, sanitary sewers, and stormwater drainage and pumping for the original complex.

Community Release Center, St. Louis, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Design of driveways, parking lots, grading, water distribution, sanitary and storm sewers for a 7-acre site.

MetroLink, St. Louis, Missouri. Lead Civil Engineer. Design and preparation of construction documents for grading, track, drainage, utilities, culverts and walls for the Airport alignment of MetroLink from North Hanley Park n’ Ride to Lambert Airport East Terminal.

Metropolitan St. Louis Psychiatric Center Water Distribution Piping, St. Louis, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Design of 2,000 feet of water distribution piping up to 12 inches in diameter. The system was modeled using the Cybernet computer program. The project included backflow preventers, fire hydrants, and thrust restraint design and construction documents.

Metropolitan St. Louis Psychiatric Center, St. Louis, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Design of driveways, parking lots, grading, water distribution, sanitary and storm sewers for a 20-acre site that included 12 buildings.
Northwest Wholehouse Navy Complex, United States Navy. Lead Engineer. Site design, utility design, stormwater and roadway design.

Scott Air Force Base Unmarried Enlisted Personnel Housing, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District. Engineer. Design of roadways and stormwater drainage system for the Unmarried Enlisted Personnel Housing (UEPH) complex at Scott Air Force Base. Design also included modifications to an existing 500,000 gallon elevated water storage system. The inflow piping and valving was redesigned to accommodate supply pressures that prevented outflow and eventual altitude valve fouling. A treatment lab was also added to the base of the water tower.

South County Health Center, St. Louis, Missouri. Lead Engineer. Design of a detention pond using a custom routing program. The detention pond limited the post-development runoff to pre-development conditions.

Spirit of St. Louis Airport Detention Grading, Chesterfield, Missouri. Project Manager. Design of a 230-acre detention grading project and golf course. The project included wetland delineation, environmental assessment, and an individual Army Corps of Engineers 404 permit. The final product included construction document preparation and construction management.

St. Louis Lambert International Airport Expansion Program, St. Louis, Missouri. Project Manager. In charge of design and construction documents for General Grading Area B. Project included grading, roadways, stormwater and utilities.

United Parcel Service, Lambert Airport, St. Louis, Missouri. Project Manager. Design and preparation of construction documents for a 25,000-square-foot parcel sorting facility, a 300,000-square-foot aircraft ramp, and parking/drives. Marc also served as project manager for the design and preparation of construction documents for a glycol recovery system that included inlets, a 12,000-gallon-per-minute pump station, and two 40,000-gallon storage tanks. The system measured the glycol concentration and released the solution into the sanitary sewer system at an acceptable rate.

TRANSPORTATION
North Tucker Boulevard Bridge Replacement, City of St. Louis, Missouri. Project Manager for the replacement of a 2,700 foot bridge with fill material, including EPS foam and compacted earth. Project included separation of combined sewers, utility relocation, commercial building modifications, archeological and hazardous material investigation and use of rain gardens along the length of the project.

Big Bend Road at Highway 141, Ballwin, Missouri. Resident Engineer. In charge of construction for 1.2 miles of arterial roadway, retaining walls and storm sewer system.

Big Bend Road at Sulphur Springs, Ballwin, Missouri. Resident Engineer. In charge of construction for 1.5 miles of arterial roadway, culvert, retaining walls and storm sewer system.

Arterial Roadway Design, Webster Groves, Missouri. Design Engineer. Design and preparation of construction documents for several miles of arterial roadway at various locations in the City of Webster Groves, MO.

Oak Hill Drive, Ellisville, Missouri. Project Manager. Design and preparation of construction documents for approximately one mile of roadway, grading, driveways and drainage.
Past Employment
HDR, Vice President and Department Manager, 2004- 2009
Woolpert LLP, Project Director, 2000-2004
Booker Associates, Inc., Project Engineer, 1989-2000
St. Louis County, 1985-1989

Publications
Articles
Marc W. Eshelman, “Rising Population Tests Small Town Drainage Plan”, Public Works; Engineering Construction & Maintenance, 134/10, 2003
Marc W. Eshelman, “Engineering Meets Environmental at Fee Fee Creek”, Erosion Control, 2003

Education
Master of Science, Civil Engineering (Hydrology and Hydraulics), University of Missouri Rolla, 1991
Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, University of Missouri Rolla, 1985

Professional Registrations
Professional Engineer, Illinois, No. 062-054356 Issued: 12/04/2000, Expires: 11/30/2011
Professional Engineer, Missouri, No. 023795 Issued: 03/01/1990, Expires: 12/31/2010

Professional Affiliations
American Council of Engineering Companies, Liaison Committee Member
American Public Works Association (APWA), Member
Engineer’s Club, St. Louis Chapter, Secretary, Board of Directors (Past), Treasurer
Missouri Water Environment Association, Member
Missouri Society of Professional Engineers (PEPP Practice Group), State Chairman (Past)
Missouri Society of Professional Engineers (MSPE), St. Louis Chapter, President (Past)
Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), Member
Water Environment Federation, Member

Industry Tenure
24 Years