Rick Besancon, senior project manager at Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, discusses the firm's project in Oklahoma City that focused on erosion control for the North Canadian River. Near Oklahoma City, the rive was migrating away from an existing intake of a power generation facility. If it continued to move away from the intake, it would disrupt the electrical generation for the city. In this interview, Besancon discusses the river restoration project goals and challenges.
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Katie Johns, editor-in-chief of Stormwater Solutions, graduated from the University of Missouri in 2016 with a Bachelor of Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish. Johns joined the Stormwater Solutions team in September 2019. Johns also helps plan the annual StormCon conference and co-hosts the Talking Under Water podcast. Prior to entering the B2B industry, she worked as a newspaper reporter and editor in Sarasota, Florida, and a magazine assistant editor in the Chicago suburbs. She can be reached at [email protected].
