Antón Quezada.

Background

Antón grew up in Menlo Park, just west of "A" Mountain, and went to Tucson High Magnet two years ahead of Marisol. Heavy-equipment operator school at Pima Community College 2007. Pima County Regional Flood Control District 2008–2020 — Cienega Creek basin rehab, Rillito Wash levee work, Pantano Wash sediment trap construction. Watershed Management Group co-op installer 2019, doing volunteer earthworks on the WMG Living Lab restoration before joining us full-time in early 2020.

Credentials

OSHA 30

since 2010, current.

Heavy equipment

Class A CDL · backhoe, mini-excavator, skid-steer.

WMG installer

Co-op installer cohort · 2019 spring.

NASSCO PACP

Pipeline Assessment Certification Program · 2017 (pipe inspection, occasionally relevant for our French drain work).

What he does

Antón leads the earthworks crew on every build that has earthworks in scope. He sets the lines, runs the mini-excavator, double-checks the soil interpretation Marisol made on the site walk, and supervises mulch placement. He is the crew's lead on basin sediment after monsoon, and the only person other than Marisol who has signed off on every dossier in our binder.

He's also the crew's de facto soils tutor. His habit on every site walk is to dig a quick 18-inch test hole with a hand auger so we know what's below the topsoil before we propose a basin volume. The Sam Hughes caliche layer he can describe by touch.

Elsewhere

Antón coaches a Menlo Park little-league baseball team in the spring. He volunteers with Friends of Menlo Park & Sentinel Peak on the volunteer-led trail-erosion-control crew that rebuilds the "A" Mountain switchbacks every winter — work that uses exactly the same earthworks principles we apply to residential basins.