With more than two decades of professional experience in the fields of stormwater/wastewater drainage, wastewater treatment and river engineering, Alejandro is the current Office Director in Colombia. For eight years he served as technical advisor for the Bogotá Water Utility, Empresa de Acueducto y Alcantarillado de Bogotá EAAB-ESP, focused on the planning, procurement and management of urban drainage and sanitary infrastructure projects. He has worked as a specialized consultant in hydrology, hydraulics and sediment transport, with extensive knowledge in hydrodynamic and sediment transport computational modeling. In his years with the firm, Alejandro has served as project manager, and design engineer in numerous projects in Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and the United States of America, including wastewater treatment plants, sewage systems, pumping stations and waterway restoration projects.

Professional Affiliations  

• Water Environment Federation 
• Asociación Colombiana de Ingeniería Sanitaria y Ambiental 

Areas of Expertise  

• Wastewater treatment and sewage conveyance 
• Pumping stations 
• Hydraulics 
• Biosolids and energy 

Publications and Presentations

• Sarmiento, F., Frenkel, V., Hernández, E., Montes Arboleda, A. 2023. Anaerobic Digesters: 
  Success Stories from Start to Finish. Presented at WEFTEC, Innovation Pavilion, Chicago, IL, October 2023.
• Montes Arboleda, A., Sarmiento, F. 2020. River Cleaning Program in Bogota, Colombia – Connecting People to the River. 93rd Annual Conference & Exhibition - AZ Water Association 2020, Hosted Virtually, July 2020.
• Le, T, Crosato, A, Montes Arboleda, A. 2020. Revisiting Waal River Training by Historical Reconstruction. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. ASCE, Ltd., Volume 146, Issue 5 (DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0001688)
• Melman, F., Mosselman, E., Jiménez Osorio, J., Montes Arboleda, A. 2012. Numerical exploration of navigability in anabranches around a large fluvial island. River Flow 2012, Ed. R.E. Murillo Muñoz, ISBN 978-0-415-62129-8, Int. Conf. on Fluvial Hydraulics, San José, Costa Rica, 5-7 September 2012, pp.749-754
• Montes Arboleda, A., Crosato, A, Middelkoop, H. 2010. Reconstructing the early 19th-century Waal River by means of a 2D physics-based numerical model. Hydrological Processes. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Volume 24, Issue 25, pp. 3661–3675 (DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7804)