Timeline Of Moses

Moses Lake attorney participates in precedent-setting case

MOSES LAKE - A Moses Lake attorney helped set a legal precedent, requiring engineering firms to analyze the effects of their suggestions.

George Ahrend was one of the attorneys involved in a Washington State Supreme Court decision holding the engineering firm CH2M Hill liable for changes made to the wastewater treatment plant at Riverside State Park in Spokane.

The firm recommended a change to how sludge was transferred between digesters at the wastewater treatment plant. Ahrend explained the digesters are 35-foot tall domes used to help remove solids from the wastewater.

"They have bacteria that they foster the growth of in there to facilitate the transformation," he said. "They were having trouble keeping them hot. They called them, 'sick digesters' because they wouldn't properly transform this material into something that could be discharged into the river."

The workers at the plant were to circulate hot sludge to fix the problem, Ahrend said, describing it as similar to clay. Without knowing it, they kept pumping more and more sludge into one of the digesters. The pressure lifted the top of the dome off.

"At this point, Dan Evans and this guy, Mike Cmos, were on top. It basically lifted them up and the pressure on the dome, just from being lifted, cracked it, and parts of it sank and parts of it spilled off the side," he said. "Mike Cmos was on a part that sank. He actually drowned in the sludge."

Evans, Ahrend's client, was thrown 35 feet to the ground, suffering multiple broken bones and taking in some of the sludge.

Ahrend and attorney Garth Dano became involved with the case shortly after the 2004 incident. Dano was coaching Evan's son on the Big Bend Community College baseball team.

"We referred him to a lawyer in Spokane named Rich Robinson, who was trial counsel for Dan Evans. We stayed on board with the idea that it was going to get appealed," he said. "We knew it was going to be appealed, and I do a lot of appeal work, so once they finished the trial and got their result, predictably the engineering firm appealed ... I just did the appeal."

One of the reasons they chose Robinson was because he was a former construction lawyer, who used to defend contractors and engineering firms in Seattle, Ahrend said.

"Bill (Gilbert), Garth and I had all worked with him before and we knew that his expertise in the field would allow him to do a better job for Dan," he said.

The plaintiffs won a $6.5 million decision after a three week trial. With the trial court deciding, the engineering firm should have informed the people working at the plant about how the changes would affect the transfer of sludge between the digesters.

Moses Life Timeline 1 - Timeline Help

Moses is born
And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
Moses parents laid him in a basket of bulrushes where the daughter of Thutmose I found him.

And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

Adopted by Pharaoh’s daughter
And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.

And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.

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