Steve Randtke, Professor Emeritus of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at KU, holds a B.S. degree civil engineering from Loyola Marymount University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in civil / environmental engineering from Stanford University. He has more than 50 years of experience in the field of environmental engineering and science.
Steve’s areas of expertise include water supply and treatment; controlling natural and synthetic contaminants using source protection and conventional and advanced treatment technologies; formation and control of disinfection byproducts (DBPs); removing DBP precursors using coagulation, softening, and various adsorption and membrane processes; removing pesticides and their metabolites, taste- and odor-causing compounds, algal toxins, iron and manganese, and sulfide; water treatment plant design; and municipal and industrial wastewater treatment for potable and non-potable reuse.
Steve is a life member of the American Water Works Association (AWWA), the WaterEnvironment Federation, and the Association of Environmental Engineering and ScienceProfessors (AEESP). Past service activities include: Board of Directors, AWWA; Vice-President, AWWA; Chair, Research Division, AWWA; President, AEESP; and Technical Co-Editor, Water Treatment Plant Design, 5th ed., a handbook of AWWA and the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Previous advisory roles include: the Drinking Water Committee of EPA's Science Advisory Board (SAB); the SAB’s Hydraulic Fracturing Study Plan Review Panel; the Drinking Water Committee Augmented for Review of the Effectiveness of Partial Lead Service Line Replacements; and the Hydraulic Fracturing Research Advisory Panel. He was engaged, formally and informally, in developing the current Microbial and Disinfection Byproducts(MDBP) rules, especially the enhanced coagulation and softening rule and the filter backwash rule; and he was recently appointed to the SAB’s MDBP Revisions Review Panel.
Steve has provided expert advice to numerous utilities, consultants, public officials, private citizens, and other entities seeking practical solutions to a broad array of water-related challenges.