Integrated Water Strategies — Water Recycling

C. Halford House, Ph. D, President
Dr. House has more than twenty-five years of waste management/water quality experience, including fifteen years academic research with constructed wetlands to treat and reuse on-site domestic wastewater, and fifteen years experience monitoring non-point source runoff from agriculture, rural and urban development projects. Dr House initiated some of the first work in North Carolina evaluating constructed wetlands for the treatment of on-site domestic wastewater. He has developed original research, grants, managed projects and has presented research information during local, state, national and international conferences and workshops. He gives lectures and tours as a part of his collaboration with water quality research within the North Carolina State University Water Quality Group, of the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department and the College of Design, both at North Carolina State University and Central Carolina Community College in Pittsboro, NC. Current projects include the North Carolina test case and first project approved to reuse water in North Carolina. This work includes the evaluations of combinations of technologies such as constructed wetlands to treat and reuse domestic wastewater for toilet flush and irrigation. Dr. House is committed to the ongoing development of technologies that clean wastewater and provide clean water resources for our communities.

Adrienne Cizek received her Bachelor of Science degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and her Masters of Science in Environmental Engineering from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her masters research focused on microbial contamination in stormwater runoff, and evaluation of how such pollutants can be managed. While at both these schools, Adrienne was actively involved in Engineers without Borders (EWB), through which she has developed and implemented community scale water systems in both Rwanda and Peru. Through these experiences, she has developed a passion for approaching large-scale water problems from small-scale solutions. Adrienne also has a passion for integrating human lifestyles and the natural environment as described by Wendell Berry and other such authors. These passions are further being developed through her work at Integrated Water Strategies, by designing systems which integrate community space and wastewater/stormwater treatment and reuse.



Mary Hackenberg, Landscape Consultant

Mary received her Bachelor of Humanities in American Studies from Pennsylvanian State University and an Associates in Applied Science in Landscape Architecture Technology from Wake Technical Community College.

She has chosen to focus her career and educational goals on utilizing an artistic approach to environmentally sound technical solutions. Landscape Architecture can include many disciplines and has given her a broad background in design, Stormwater management, and producing construction drawings for residential and commercial projects. She also incorporates principles drawn from Permaculture as a method of working with available resources, native plants, and the natural environment in her landscape design solutions.

Her studies while at Penn State, included the study, documentation, and preservation of some of America’s rich cultural heritage in art, architecture and culture. This background translates into landscape designs that consider the cultural history and human interaction with our environment.

Robert T. McKay, CAD Operator/Landscape consultant

After looking for a new job for nine months after being laid off from a telecommunications company, Robert decided to succumb to a long lingering interest of plants, enjoyable outdoor spaces and a desire to continue a sporadic college education. He recently completed an Associate Degree in Applied Science in Landscape Architecture Technology at Wake Technical Community College and intends to haunt other campuses in pursuit of additional knowledge. In previous employment, Robert was a project manager and technical weenie for ten years at the previously noted Telecom Company and is a retired Navy Electronics Technician. Robert discovered an affinity for permaculture and sustainable landscaping and architecture practices while at school which dovetails with IWS’s view. When not at work, Robert can be found many times tailgating at the RBC center before a Hurricanes game.