General Mailing Address:
California Stormwater Quality Association
P.O. Box 2105
Menlo Park, CA 94026-2105
650-366-1042
Board of Directors
Chris Crompton - Chair
Scott Taylor - Vice Chair
Steve Stump - Treasurer
Kerry Schmitz - Secretary
Jill Bicknell - Executive Program Coordinator
Karen Ashby
Jeff Endicott
Robert Hale
Scott McGowen
Daniel Rourke
Matt Yeager
Geoff Brosseau, Executive Director
Geoff has been an environmental consultant since 1989, and he currently also serves as Executive Director of Bay Area Stormwater Management Agencies Association (BASMAA), an organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to his BASMAA and CASQA duties, Mr. Brosseau was a principal author of both the 1993 and 2003 California Stormwater Best Management Practice Handbooks as well as the Urban Runoff Manual of Practice published by the Water Environment Federation (WEF) and American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He has assisted over 25 municipalities throughout the state in developing and implementing virtually every aspect of their stormwater programs. Geoff has been an active participant on the California Stormwater Quality Task Force / California Stormwater Quality Association since 1992, serving on the Executive Program Committee and chairing a variety of subcommittees and work groups over the years. He was the statewide stormwater representative to the Public Advisory Committee of the Bay Protection and Toxic Cleanup Program. He participated on both the Nonpoint Sources Committee and the Pollution Prevention Committee of WEF for a number of years. He also participated on two WERF Project Subcommittees overseeing studies of Source Control Program Effectiveness and Stormwater Environmental Indicators, and was the principal author of a national guidance manual on pollution prevention. Originally from Connecticut before moving to Illinois and then to California, Mr. Brosseau has lived throughout California and holds degrees from University of California, San Diego and University of California, Los Angeles. Previously, Mr. Brosseau was a marine biologist for almost ten years, working for aquaculture firms in Santa Barbara and Tiburon/Santa Cruz.
CASQA Committees
- Awards Committee - Jeff Endicott, Chair
- Bylaws Review Committee - Karen Ashby, Chair
- Executive Program Committee (EPC) - Scott Taylor, Chair
- Finance Committee - Steve Stump, Chair
- Membership Committee - Scott Taylor, Chair
Subcommittees of the EPC - Click here to learn more about the Subcommittees
- Best Management Practices - Anna Lantin, Chair
- Conference - Daniel Rourke, Chair
- Construction - Sandy Mathews, Chair
- Effectiveness Assessment - Daniel Rourke / Jon Van Ryn, Co-Chairs
- Industrial - Maureen Daggett, Chair
- Legislation - Jason Uhley, Chair
- Monitoring and Science - Armand Ruby, Chair
- Pesticides - Dave Tamayo / Kelly Moran, Co-Chairs
- Phase II - Kelye McKinney, Chair
- Policy and Permitting - Richard Boon, Chair
- Public Information / Public Participation - Sharon Gosselin, Chair
- Training - Daniel Apt / Carmel Brown, Co-Chairs
- Watershed Management and Impaired Waters - Richard Watson, Chair
- Website - Stephanie Reyna, Chair
Board of Directors
Karen Ashby - Bylaws Review Committee Chair
Karen is an Associate and serves as a Project Manager for Larry Walker Associates’ work in the stormwater and watershed management fields. She has over seventeen years of experience in the planning, development, implementation, and assessment of stormwater management programs. She has a B.S. in Biological Sciences and a Professional Certificate in Hazardous Materials Management from the University of California, Irvine. Ms. Ashby is certified as a Professional in Storm Water Quality from CPESC, Inc. and has been an active member of the California Stormwater Quality Association since 1999 as well as a Board of Director member, Vice Chair, and Chair.
Jill Bicknell - Executive Program Coordinator
Jill is a water resources engineer with over 20 years of consulting engineering and project management experience and a registered professional civil engineer in California. She earned her B.S. in Civil Engineering from University of Vermont and her M.S. in Water Resources Engineering from Stanford University. Jill is currently a Managing Engineer with EOA, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA, where her focus is assisting municipal stormwater programs with implementation of stormwater management plans and control of stormwater pollution, particularly related to new development and construction activities. Through a contract with EOA, Jill serves as Assistant Program Manager for the Santa Clara Valley Urban Runoff Pollution Prevention Program, a program to assist 15 agencies in complying with their joint NPDES stormwater discharge permit, and she represents the Santa Clara Program at CASQA meetings. She has also provided technical assistance to several other countywide stormwater management programs and local agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Chris Crompton - Chair
Chris is the Manager of Environmental Resources for the Watershed and Coastal Resources Division of the Orange County Resources and Development Management Department. In this position he oversees the coordination of the countywide, municipal NPDES stormwater compliance program with 34 permittee cities and a number of other environmental monitoring and management initiatives within Orange County. Chris has 30 years of experience in environmental management, 23 of which have been with the County of Orange.
Jeff Endicott - Awards Committee Chair
Jeff has over 25 years of engineering experience, 17 years as a consultant focusing on water resources and the development of stormwater quality management programs for the private and public sectors. Prior to his consulting profession, he worked with the USDA Soil Conservation Service and the City of Redlands. Drawing upon his government and consulting experiences, he has succeeded to produce practicable solutions to complex environmental problems. Jeff is a graduate of Humboldt State University, is a Registered Professional Civil Engineer in California and Nevada, and is Board Certified as an Environmental Engineer by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. He is the Engineering Director for AEI-CASC Consulting in Colton, California.
Robert Hale - Director
Robert is the Clean Water Division Manager at the Alameda County Public Works Agency. He is a geographer with a focus on geomorphology. He received his PhD. from University of California at Berkeley. He served as Chairman of the Stormwater Quality Task Force for two years, and has participated on the SWQTF and CASQA since 1992.
Scott McGowen - Director
Scott has been working with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) for 23 years. He is currently the Chief Environmental Engineer and oversees environmental engineering activities, including two stormwater quality offices, hazardous waste and noise. After beginning with Caltrans in 1984 in Design, he has worked in Traffic Operations, Office Engineer and was the Office Chief for the State Transportation Improvement Program and Office Chief for Special Projects in Design. Prior to his current position, he served as the Chief of Staff to the Director of Transportation. He received a B.S in Civil Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and is a registered Civil Engineer.
Daniel Rourke - Director; Conference Subcommittee Chair; Effectiveness Assessment Subcommittee Co-Chair
Daniel has been working with the Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control District since 2001. He is currently the Environmental Resources Manager where he oversees the NPDES stormwater program along with other environmental regulatory programs. After teaching for 5 years, he began his stormwater career in 1987 with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where he initiated projects that included citizen watershed and stream monitoring programs to conducting stormwater pollution prevention outreach to communities and businesses. In 1990 he migrated to California and managed the Water Pollution Prevention Program for the City and County of San Francisco for the next 11 years. The program focused on integrating pollution prevention strategies into wastewater and stormwater control programs.
Kerry Schmitz - Secretary
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Stephen Stump - Treasurer; Finance Committee Chair
Stephen has worked with the Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District since 1979. He is currently a Flood Control Principal Engineer and Chief of Regulatory Division. His positions there include the Senior Civil Engineer of the NPDES Section, where he manages the Municipal Stormwater Programs, and district liaison to the US Army Corps of Engineers on large Federal flood control projects. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from California Polytechnic University.
Scott Taylor - Vice Chair; Executive Program Committee (EPC) Chair; Membership Committee Chair
Scott earned a BSCE from California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, and an MSCE from California State University at Long Beach, both with an emphasis in water resources engineering. He has over 22 years of experience in flood control engineering and surface water quality and has taught undergraduate courses in hydrology and hydraulic design at the University of California at Irvine and California State University at Long Beach. He serves as the course coordinator and an instructor for a Professional Engineer’s (PE) License review course. Mr. Taylor has served as an instructor for ASCE continuing education for courses in BMP design. He has presented technical papers on the subjects of flood control and BMP effectiveness at domestic and international conferences and has consulted to the Government of Hong Kong relative to stormwater quality. He is a registered civil engineer in California, Nevada and Arizona and is a Vice President with RBF Consulting in Irvine, CA.
Matt Yeager - Director
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