Richard Tomko, PE
Associate Vice President
Rich is a process mechanical designer and design manager for water and wastewater infrastructure projects with a wide range of expertise. Rich serves as one of Hazen's pumping design leads, with a career total of over 1,000 MGD of firm pumping capacity designed. He is also a nationally recognized biosolids handling specialist and has designed and upgraded thermal drying systems with over 175,000 pounds per hour of installed evaporative capacity. He brings extensive expertise integrating dewatering, cake handling, thermal drying, pellet storage, odor control, and facility operations into reliable, maintainable biosolids management solutions. Rich also serves as a senior technical consultant for the design of advanced thermal processes for post-dried biosolids treatment for PFAS and energy recovery.
- Areas of Expertise
- Pumping and blower system design
- Headworks design
- Biosolids drying
- Education
- MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
- BS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
- Certification/License
- Professional Engineer (PE)
