# Black & Veatch Black & Veatch is the global engineering firm (headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas) retained on the **effluent-cooling-water engineering for [[Project Stratus]]** — the firm that evaluated whether [[Conway Corporation]]'s Tupelo Bayou treated effluent can serve as the data center's cooling-tower supply, and that produced the project's **Final Engineering Report** (April 2026). ## Roles in this corpus - **Effluent-cooling engineer of record.** Black & Veatch executed a Confidentiality Agreement with Conway Corporation "relating to **Effluent Quality and Conveyance for Project Stratus**" (signed by Derek L. Cambridge, 2025-05-05) and carried the formal evaluation: the **PFAS Work Order No. 1** (2025-04), the **Final Engineering Report for Project Stratus** (delivered 2026-04), and a **Rate Analysis memorandum** (in progress as of 2026-04). See [[Black & Veatch Effluent-Cooling Engineering for Project Stratus]]. - **Process intermediary structure.** Per Scott Zotti, B&V's report workflow runs "submitted to the chamber of commerce, who then submitted the report to the industrial user," followed by ADH/ADEQ regulatory meetings — placing B&V's deliverables behind the [[Conway Area Chamber of Commerce]]/[[Conway Development Corporation]] cluster and the unnamed "industrial user." ## People - **Derek L. Cambridge** — signed the Conway Corporation effluent NDA for Black & Veatch (2025-05-05). - **Scott H. Zotti, P.E.** — Project Director, Governments & Environment; lead on Work Order No. 1 (PFAS) and report scheduling. - **John A. Keller, P.E.** — Project Manager, Integrated Water Solutions; delivered the Final Engineering Report and the Rate Analysis updates. - **Anna White** — Director, Infrastructure Advisory; finance-side "email connect" with Conway Corporation CFO [[Erin Brown]] (2026-04). ## Notes Black & Veatch's role is the utility-side counterpart to [[EMH&T]] (Forgelight's site-civil engineer on the land-use side) and overlaps the earlier [[Garver]] water-and-wastewater scoping. The firm's work product — especially the Final Engineering Report and Rate Analysis memorandum — is the most consequential unproduced material in the [[2026-05 Conway Corporation Produces Project Stratus Records|Conway Corporation production]], because it would quantify the cooling-water feasibility and the ratepayer cost allocation that FOIA Item 4(e) targets.