California Association of Sanitation Agencies

Joseph A. Lauria, P.E.
Director-At-Large

Joseph Lauria is Senior Vice President of Malcolm Pirnie, The Water Division of ARCADIS U.S., Inc. He’s been responsible for more than $1 billion of wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal capital projects from California to New York, and currently serves as Principal-in-Charge in Malcolm Pirnie’s Irvine, California office where he directs work for agencies such as the Orange County Sanitation District, Inland Empire Utility Agency, South Orange County Wastewater Authority and Irvine Ranch Water District among others. Prior to returning to California, he was responsible for the design of major projects such as the 550 mgd high purity oxygen facilities on Deer Island for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, and egg-shaped digestion/centrifuge thickening facilities for New York City DEP’s 315 mgd Newtown Creek Water Pollution Control Plant. While living in the East, he was also Chairman of the Ridgefield Water Pollution Control Authority, a public agency.

Mr. Lauria served for more than ten years as Malcolm Pirnie’s national Technical Director of Wastewater Engineering Services, and developed firm-wide QA/QC and consistency of practice procedures for design projects across the country. A Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, he developed Malcolm Pirnie’s national Capital Project Delivery guidance document, establishing procedures to implement innovative and alternative delivery methods. He also served a multi-year term on the company’s corporate Board of Directors, served as Liaison to the Board of Directors of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME). For 2011, Mr. Lauria was the Associates Committee Chair for CASA. His undergraduate and graduate engineering degrees were obtained from Manhattan College in New York.