Meet Hootkins at the the ACWA Conference from May 3-6 in San Jose, California

ENTRIX, Inc., a professional environmental consulting firm specializing in water resource management, environmental risk management, natural resources management, natural resource economics, and facility permitting & compliance, has hired Susan Hootkins as senior consultant.

Based in the Walnut Creek, California, office, Ms. Hootkins will assist ENTRIX to expand its water and land resources management services within federal, state, and local agencies by managing projects involving multidisciplinary environmental impact and resource management issues.

Ms. Hootkins brings over 32 years of planning experience to a well-reputed team of environmental consulting professionals, which include engineers, biologists, hydrologists, geologists, oceanographers, ecologists, toxicologists, economists, planners, and regulatory/permitting experts.

"I joined ENTRIX because of its reputation for providing comprehensive environmental consulting services for water treatment, storage, and conveyance projects, mitigation planning, and habitat restoration and because of its extensive expertise and capabilities in economics and aquatic ecology," according to Ms. Hootkins.

After 17 years of local and regional planning experience in the public sector in the San Francisco Bay Area, she entered private consulting as an environmental planner in 1990. Since then, she has worked with multidisciplinary teams to complete complex resource management and environmental compliance projects for the federal government and California water agencies. Ms. Hootkins has considerable experience in environmental planning and review, natural resources planning including water resources, land use planning, and public involvement. She is involved in all phases of planning and impact analyses, which include project design and management, issue identification, public scoping, baseline studies, alternatives analysis, plan formulation, and impact mitigation.

Ms. Hootkins earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in human biology from Stanford University in 1973 and Masters in Urban Planning from San Jose State University in 1981.



About ENTRIX, Inc.

ENTRIX, Inc., a professional environmental consulting firm specializes in water resource management, environmental risk management, natural resources management, natural resource economics, and facility permitting & compliance. Among our list of clients are water districts, municipal water agencies, private water companies, oil and chemical companies, legal firms, conservation agencies, and regulatory agencies. ENTRIX operates over 20 offices in the United States, including California offices in Walnut Creek, San Francisco, Sacramento, Ventura, and South Lake Tahoe. For more information about ENTRIX, visit www.entrix.com.