Palm Coast Director of Engineering and Stormwater John Moden announces retirement John Moden, Palm Coast’s City Engineer and Director of the Engineering and Stormwater Department, who has played a major role in developing and maintaining Palm Coast’s infrastructure and managing the City’s stormwater system over the past 37 years, will retire on Feb. 6. A licensed professional engineer, Moden earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Michigan Technological University and worked first as a consultant before joining ITT Community Development Corp. in 1977. Moden was an engineer, project manager and construction manager for ITT, the original developer of Palm Coast. Moden then worked in the regulatory section of the Army Corps of Engineers before serving as manager of Palm Coast Community Service Corp. from 1991 until 2005. PCCSC was responsible for maintaining Palm Coast’s community-wide stormwater system and deed restrictions. Moden’s work included directly evaluating the maintenance needs of the stormwater system, preparing budgets, establishing and assessing a fee to property owners in order to generate revenue for maintenance, preparation of plans and specifications for maintenance and rehabilitation of the stormwater system, obtaining all regulatory permits, procurement of contractors using the competitive bid process, overseeing and inspecting the maintenance work, and reviewing and processing pay requests. This included restoring the drainage system after the fires of 1998 and the tropical storms of 2004. In 2005, Moden was retained by the City of Palm Coast as the director of the Stormwater Management Department, where he continued his duties to maintain the Palm Coast community-wide stormwater system. His department is now named Engineering and Stormwater, with two divisions and eight employees. Engineering assists with the design, construction, and maintenance of the Citys infrastructure, including streets, street lights, traffic signals, paths/sidewalks, parks and recreation, water, sewer, sanitation and other public facilities. The Stormwater Division maintains the freshwater and saltwater canal systems. It conducts hydraulic modeling (or evaluation) of the stormwater drainage system. It also provides support (design and survey) for the continuing program of maintenance and rehabilitation of Palm Coast’s drainage system including front-yard swales and inter-connecting drainage ditches, replaces drainage pipes under the streets, and improves the valley gutters throughout the City. “It has been a very enjoyable 37 years,” Moden said. “Watching Palm Coast grow from a community of 3,000 people and all the people I have met and worked with along the way have been the most rewarding parts of my work. Early in my career, I would help with the design work but not be able to enjoy the results of my work. Here in Palm Coast I have seen many of the projects I worked on and the way they function and am proud of the community that I have been a part of.” “I look forward to retirement even though I have not yet mapped the exact route I plan on taking,” he said. “I am sure the next step will be a great adventure.” Moden is a member of the Florida Engineering Society, the Florida Stormwater Association and the Flagler Rotary. He and his wife Patsy live in the Painters Hill area of Flagler County, and their two sons live in Palm Coast. Moden plans to continue living here after retirement. “For nearly four decades, John Moden has been a leader in developing our community to very high standards to ensure an excellent quality of life for residents,” said City Manager Jim Landon. “He has been integrally involved in building and maintaining Palm Coast’s stormwater system and hundreds of major infrastructure projects across the City. I thank him for sharing his talent with us, for his professionalism and dedicated service. We wish him well in his retirement!” A search for Moden’s replacement will begin in early 2015. . Unlike · · Share
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 00:08:44 +0000