Wallace L. Chadwick; Internationally Known Civil Engineer

Wallace L. Chadwick, 98, an internationally known civil engineer who built utility power plants around the world. A native of Loring, Kan., Chadwick moved to Southern California as a child and attended the University of Redlands. Although World War I limited his college education to two years, he later served as a Redlands trustee for 42 years, chairing the board for 13 years, and in 1965 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in engineering science. After spending half a dozen years with the Metropolitan Water District and 34 with Southern California Edison, Chadwick retired as Edison’s vice president of engineering and construction in 1962. He went on to a 30-year career as consultant to Edison and Bechtel Corp., traveling more than 4.5 million miles to work on such projects as the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington subways, hydroelectric plants in Canada, a nuclear power plant in Texas, a power facility in Saudi Arabia, and the official inquiry into causes of the 1976 failure of the Grand Teton Dam. During Chadwick’s seven-decade career, the award-winning expert served as national president of the American Society of Civil Engineers and was on the International Committee on Large Dams. On June 5 in Claremont.