Scott Dewhirst is endowed with vision, tested ability and an enviable record of successes. He has competently served the engineering profession through his technical accomplishments in the design, engineering, and construction administration of water treatment plants in South Carolina and Virginia.

In 1993, he graduated Summa Cum Laude in Civil Engineering and earned his M.S. in Environmental Engineering in 1997 from Virginia Tech.

Mr. Dewhirst was a graduate research assistant from 1993 to 1995 at Virginia Tech, where he conducted research to enhance manganese oxidation and subsequent removal in low TOC [total organic carbon] water supplies by utilizing iron oxides as an adsorptive surface. He was responsible for lab preparation and grading for environmental chemistry, unit operations laboratory, and water and wastewater treatment plant design.

From 1995 to 2000, he was a design/project engineer with Black & Veatch, Greensville, S.C., where he worked on Table Rock and North Saluda Water Treatment Plant. In addition, he conducted a water treatment plant evaluation, cold water coagulation study, designed pumping station and pipeline projects, and other water treatment plant improvements.

Currently, he is the chief of facilities engineering for the City of Newport News – Waterworks. He is responsible for the oversight of all engineering functions for Newport News Waterworks’ plants, pumping stations, storage tanks and dams, as well as overseeing consultant engineering contracts.

He served as project engineer and then project manager for the new Lee Hall WTP and modifications to the Harwood’s Mill WTP project, a $70 million project, including dissolved air flotation and ozonation facilities. He has since been involved with various dam and plant improvement projects to support the operations of the utility.

Mr. Dewhirst has served as the project liaison between Newport News Waterworks and the Virginia Tech Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for several research projects to benefit graduate students and the utility.

Mr. Dewhirst is involved in his community with active participation in both work and non-work related organizations. He has chaired various committees in state sections of the American Waterworks Association and demonstrated commitment to young people in his community by coaching soccer and basketball teams and leading the youth in his church.

He is the proud husband of wife Dawn, also a Virginia Tech civil engineering graduate, and father of four children, Ashley, Hannah, Connor, and Daniel.