JOHN F. NOREIKA

Hydraulic Engineer

# Present Position

Mr. Noreika is an innovative test engineer and designer with extensive
experience in model testing and instrumentation related to fish passage,
fishway design, pump intakes, condensers, field measurements, and 3D air
modeling. His responsibilities include model and test design,
construction supervision, instrumentation applications and testing, data
evaluation, reporting, and client interaction.

# Expertise

> Modeling of fish passage structures to evaluate fishway designs for
> fish attraction both for upstream and downstream passage.
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> Hydraulic design and biological testing of fishways in controlled
> laboratory setting.
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> Design of test apparatus to simulate hydraulic conditions and evaluate
> their biological effects.
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> Extensive design experience in hydraulic modeling of pump intakes,
> condenser and heat exchangers, closed conduit pump systems and
> manifolds, 3D air models and flow evaluation in nuclear reactor sumps.
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> Instrumentation expertise includes Laser Doppler Anemometer (LDA),
> Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), Acoustic Doppler Velocimetry (ADV),
> hot wire anemometry, and one, two, and three dimensional velocity
> probes for complex flow pattern identification.
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> Co-developing of PC software and instrumentation data acquisition for
> evaluating hydraulic phenomena in models and test apparatus.
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> Expert in the application and use of the dye dilution method and
> velocity meter method for accurate flow measurement in field and
> laboratory conditions.

# Project Experience

Mr. Noreika has over thirty years of experience in applied fluid
mechanics as a Hydraulic Engineer and Research Engineer at the USGS,
Conte Anadromous Research Center and Alden Research Laboratory. He has
been associated with over 50 projects involving:

> Fishways -- Steeppass, Denil, Ice Harbor, pool and weir type fishways.
> Innovative labyrinth pool and weir type fishways and plunge pool
> hydraulics.
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> Fish Structure Modeling -- Cabot Station weir modifications, Little
> Falls Dam breach and fish passage structure design, false weir fish
> diverters, and swim speed flumes.
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> Biological Test Apparatus -- Respirometer and swim speed flume for
> testing of fish energetics and endurance. Turbulence tank and shear
> and strike test tube to simulate the effects of fish passing through
> hydraulic turbines.
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> Condenser and Heat exchanger Modeling -- Indian Point air cooler,
> Seabrook heat exchanger, Arkansas sponge ball cleaning system,
> condenser tube plug failures, single pass condenser, and condenser hot
> well evaluation.
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> Pump Intake Evaluation and Remediation -- Seabrook, River Bend, New
> Haven, Indian Point, B.L. England, St John's River cooling tower, York
> county Waste to Energy Plant, and Exxon Two Lights End cooling tower.
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> Precipitator Modeling -- Physical modeling to improve approach and
> internal velocities for two precipitator projects.
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> Field Flow Measurement -- Field velocity measurements Tampa Bay dual
> flow screens. Dye dilution testing for Boston sewer system upgrade;
> Susquehanna service water pumps; Calvert Cliffs circulating water
> pumps; Great Northern Paper Turbine replacement velocity measurements,
> Cabot Station turn pool velocity mapping.

# Education

> M.S., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1983, Environmental Engineering
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> M.S., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1974, Civil Engineering
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> Additional Training
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> Ground Water Flow, 1987, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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> Open Channel Hydraulics, 1984, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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> Fish Passage and Diversion Structures, 1994, US Fish and Wildlife

## Selected Publications

"Evaluation of a Uniform Acceleration Weir for Downstream Bypass
Entrances" with Haro, Odeh, Castro-Santos, Journal of the American
Fisheries Society. 127:118-127, 1998

"Hydraulic Model Study of Little Falls Dam Fish Passage" with Haro, and
Odeh, Submitted to US Fish and Wildlife Service and US Corp of
Engineers, 1995

"Hydraulics and Rating Curves for a 36" Denil Fishway" with Odeh,CAFRC
Report, 2000

"Swimming and Standard Metabolic Rates in an Anadromous Clupeid, the
American Shad" with Leonard, Kynard, McCormick, Journal Comp. Physiol.
B, 1999, 169:287-295

"Effect of Slope and Headpond on Passage of American Shad and Blueback
Herring through Simple Denil and Deepened Alaska Steeppass Fishways"
with Haro, Odeh and Castro-Santos, North American Journal of Fisheries
Management, 1999, 19:51-58

"Flow Distribution in a Stacked Clarifier" with Padmanadhan, Nguyen, ARL
Report, 1990

"Hydraulic Model Study of an Effluent Pump Sump for Jackson Pike
Project" with Padmanadhan, ARL Report No. 154-91/M137F, 1991

"Wet Electostatic Precipitator Model Study, Chowchilla Plant" with
Nystrom, ARL Report No.53-91/m713F, 1991

Hydraulic Model Evaluations of Flow Patterns at the Entrance to a Heat
Exchanger" with Padmanadhan, ARL Report No. 29-91/M620F, 1991

"Hydraulic Model Study of the North Main Pumping Station Suction Piping"
with Padmanadhan, ARL Report No. 132-90/M695F, 1990

"Hydraulic Model Study of Condenser and Hotwell Under Stationary and
Oscillating Conditions" with Padmanadhan, ARL Report No. 41-89/M156F,
1989

"Hydraulic Evaluation of Design Changes to the Bad Creek Intake
Structure" with Larsen, ARL Report No. 18-88/M208F, 1988

"Tracer Dilution Flow Measurements- Boston High Level Sewer System" with
Nystrom, ARL Report No. 33-88/M638FA, 1988

Hydraulic Model Evaluation of Service Water Intake with Dual Flow
Screens- Indian Point Nuclear Power Station" with Padmanadhan, ARL
Report No. 74-87/M118F, 1987

"Experimental Evaluation of Flow Patterns in an Air Cooler with a 7 Inch
Deep Waterbox" with Padmanadhan, ARL Report No. 50-87/M118F, 1987