Company News

Clear Creek Associates celebrated its ten-year anniversary in 2009. The Phoenix-Scottsdale office opened its doors on September 7, 1999, and the Tucson office opened on November 1, 1999.
    As we mark our first decade in business, we are pleased to announce the opening of two new offices. Our Northern Virginia office is in historic Leesburg, about fifteen minutes west of Washington-Dulles Airport. The office is managed by Michael Alter, P.G. (VA, PA, AZ). Our new California office is located in Claremont, about fifteen minutes west of the Ontario Airport. In addition to his ongoing involvement with Arizona projects, Marvin Glotfelty, R.G. (AZ, CA), manages the California office.

In the Scientific Community

Clear Creek Associates is committed to promoting dialogue that benefits the hydrologic and geologic sciences.

Marvin Glotfelty was recently selected as the 2012 McEllhiney Lecturer by the National Ground Water Research and Educational Foundation. The McEllhiney lecture series was established to foster professional excellence in water-well technology. Initiated in 2000, the series honors William A. McEllhiney, the founding president, in 1948, of the National Ground Water Association, and a groundwater contractor and civil engineer from Brookfield, Illinois. Marvin’s McEllhiney lecture will be “Life-Cycle Economic Analysis of Water Wells: Considerations for Design and Construction.”
    In September 2008, we were pleased to be a sponsor of the event that combined the 45th annual meeting of the American Institute of Professional Geologists, the 21st annual symposium of the Arizona Hydrological Society, and the Third International Professional Geologic Conference. Clear Creek staff geologist Barbara Murphy was general chairperson of the conference, which examined "Changing Waterscapes and Water Ethics for the 21st Century" and "Global Geoscience Practice, Standards, Ethics, and Accountability."

   Clear Creek Associates was a major sponsor of the Sixth International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge conference held in October 2007. Doug Bartlett was co-chairman of the conference. More than 300 of the world’s experts on managed aquifer recharge, from twenty-six countries and twenty-seven U.S. states, attended the event.
   Clear Creek Associates was a silver-level sponsor of the Ores & Orogenesis Symposium in September 2007. Mike Alter was an active member of the planning committee for the symposium, which was hosted by the Arizona Geological Society and co-sponsored by the USGS, the Arizona Geological Survey, SME, SEG, and the Geological Society of Nevada. More than 900 geologists and mining professionals attended the week-long event, which focused on Circum-Pacific tectonics, geologic evolution and ore deposits.
   Clear Creek Associates actively supports the annual Tri-State Seminar on the River. Clear Creek staff serve on the organizing committee and give technical presentations at the seminar.

Community Involvement

Clear Creek Associates is supportive of various nonprofit organizations through financial donations and volunteer service.

Clear Creek Associates is a sponsor of the Water for People’s Annual Southern Arizona Golf Classic. Over 884 million people around the world do not have access to safe drinking water, and every day nearly 6,000 people who share our planet die from water-related illnesses, the majority of them children. Water for People is a nonprofit international organization that supports the development of locally sustainable drinking-water resources, sanitation facilities, and health and hygiene education programs.

Clear Creek Associates along with several dozen other local firms comprise the Phoenix chapter of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul’s Corporate Breakfast Club. This group of businesses is committed to helping the homeless and feeding the hungry—literally: the second Monday of each month, CCA employees and other volunteers don aprons and serve breakfast and visit with homeless and working poor at the dining room in downtown Phoenix. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is an international lay organization that serves the needs of the poor and provides an opportunity for those more fortunate to serve others. The local chapter has been assisting Arizona families since 1946.

Professional Activity

Many of our staff are active in professional organizations and activities. Some highlights:

     Mike Alter served on the executive committee of the Arizona Geological Society from 2000 to 2008, and was president of the society in 2003.
     Doug Bartlett is vice chairman of the Managed Aquifer Recharge Standards Committee with the Environmental & Water Resources Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers. This national committee is revising engineering standards related to aquifer recharge. Doug was co-chairman of the ISMAR6 Conference in October 2007.
     Marvin Glotfelty serves on the Northern Arizona University College of Engineering and Natural Sciences advisory council. He was also a guest lecturer in the university’s geology department in 2007 and 2009. He has been active with the Arizona Water Well Association, serving as their technical director since 1990, on their legislative committee since 1993, and on their scholarship committee since 2004. Marvin is a board member of the Arizona Hydrological Society Foundation and was a member of the planning committee for the National Groundwater Association’s 2009 Groundwater Summit, held in Tucson in 2009.
     Barry Halterman is on the selection committee for the Herman Bouwer Internship Scholarship of the Phoenix chapter of the Arizona Hydrological Society.
    In September 2008, Don Hanson served on the planning and organizing committee for the Tri-State Seminar on the River, held in Primm, Nevada. He currently serves a governor-appointed term on the Underground Storage Tank State Assurance Fund Technical Appeals Panel.
     Alison Jones was on the planning committee of the National Ground Water Association’s 2009 Groundwater Summit. She was recently nominated to serve as secretary of the Arizona Geological Society, beginning in 2010.
     Barbara Murphy was general chairperson of the AIPG/AHS/3rd IPGC, held in Flagstaff in September 2008. Barb was the 2008 president of the Arizona section of the American Institute of Professional Geologists. On the national level, she has served as the organization’s vice president as well as on its advisory board, and she is the AIPG representative to the Congressional Hazards Caucus Alliance with the American Geological Institute. Barb has received numerous awards from AIPG, including the Presidential Award (1997), Outstanding Achievement Award (2005), and the Award of Honorary Membership (2008) for her service to the institute and the geological profession. She is currently chairperson of the Arizona Geological Survey's Geologic Mapping Advisory Committee.
   Paul Plato serves on the corporate board of the Arizona Hydrological Society.
     Tom Suriano served a three-year, governor-appointed term on Arizona’s Water Quality Assurance Revolving Fund Advisory Board, providing oversight of the implementation of the state’s Superfund program. He was also was one of the key stakeholders in developing Arizona’s landmark state Superfund legislation, as well as the state’s rules on groundwater-remedy selection and soil remediation.