Mark Madison: Academy of Distinguished Engineers - 2009

After obtaining an associate’s degree at Blue Mountain Community College, Mark Madison went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering at OSU. Madison served on the Department of Environmental Quality task force that wrote new municipal wastewater reuse regulations. He also worked on the task force that developed a water marketing law and another that wrote new industrial reuse regulations. Now he is an agricultural engineer and project manager with CH2M Hill’s Water Business Group in Portland, Oregon. He specializes in managing soil, water, plants, and nutrient relationships for wastewater reuse and agricultural production. He has experience in wastewater, biosolids and leachate reuse, and irrigation, and has managed four award-winning effluent reuse projects. Several of his projects involve implementing hybrid poplar and other tree species for treated wastewater effluent and biosolids reuse in Woodburn, Oregon.