CaSt Consulting provides comprehensive analysis, consulting, and expert witness services
for Water and Wastewater and Environmental Health and Safety Issues.
Our expertise includes pathogen inactivation; water and wastewater disinfection
and Safety and Health strategic planning, program evaluation, and systems development
(including job safety analysis, job hazard analysis and safety auditing).
We focus on operational systems review to ensure that safe, secure, sustainable,
and resilient systems exist for worker safety and public health protection.
More than 30 years of expertise in the sustainability, and reliability, of drinking water
and wastewater systems and the health & safety of employees.
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Leonard is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering and Undergraduate Coordinator in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Casson received B.E. and M.S. degrees from Vanderbilt University in 1980 and 1982, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1987. Dr. Casson is a registered Professional Engineer in Florida and Pennsylvania. Dr. Casson is also a Board Certified Environmental Engineer (BCEE) in the specialty of Water Supply and Wastewater by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. Recently, he is also credentialed as an Envision Sustainability Professional by the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure.
Dr. Casson’s consulting areas of expertise include Adsorption, fate, transport and transformation of chemicals, particles and environmental pathogens in unit operations and the natural environment. These fundamentals are applied to the design and operation of safe, secure, sustainable, reliable and resilient infrastructure systems (i.e., drinking water treatment, storage and distribution systems and wastewater collection and treatment systems).
Current projects include: disinfection methodologies, resilience, vulnerability assessments, emergency response plans and analytical techniques and operational methodologies to ensure the security, sustainability, reliability resilience of drinking water and wastewater infrastructure systems.
John is an Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Management Professional with over 15 years of progressive responsibility managing, developing and implementing comprehensive Safety and Health programs. John is a technical, hands-on, visible leader with proven abilities in ensuring compliance to all aspects of an EHS program, building and leading effective teams, developing and implementing EHS strategies and instilling Safety as a culture within an organization.
Safety and Health are his passions, working with and for individuals and an organization to place the highest priority on safety. Safety and Health need to be an integral part of, but most of all, a value for any organization so that employee health and safety and the environment is never compromised.
John is dedicated to helping companies achieve a safe workplace through training, auditing, and implementation of programs and policies in order to be the reason that “No one gets hurt today”.
We know our success depends on your success.