Jo Somers, P.E.

Jo Somers provides Robinsong with in-house professional engineering services. She has over thirty years of experience in consulting and municipal engineering and a very thorough understanding of all aspects of land development.

Beginning in the 1960s, she worked on numerous wastewater projects providing services to the newly formed Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee. Jo moved to Huntsville, Alabama in 1971 and changed her emphasis from wastewater engineering to general civil engineering. Her work has included developing plans and specifications for the construction of military training facilities, marinas, hazardous waste cleanup and landfills, airports, municipal road and drainage projects, and numerous subdivision and site developments projects.

Jo developed a specialty in residential land development. Notable projects included large master planned residential developments such as Hampton Cove golf course community, the Ledges, Heritage Plantation and Clifts Cove. Jo also served as the City Engineer for fast-growing Madison, Alabama, for five years.

She became interested in wetland mitigation in 1996 while developing plans for Heritage Plantation, a subdivision in Madison, Alabama. Mitigation was a relatively new concept and a wonderful follow-on to the many years of land development projects. In 1998 Jo became a partner in Robinsong and was instrumental in the establishment of Robinsong's Flint Creek Wetlands Mitigation Bank in Hartselle, Alabama. She provided design/build plans for the hydrological modifications to the 653 acre site that reclaimed the wetlands from farmland. She joined Robinsong full time in October of 2004.

Jo received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Vanderbilt University in 1967.

Email: jo@robinsong.com