James J. Corbalis, Jr.

James J. Corbalis, Jr. (date of birth::July 13, 1919 - date of death::September 5, 2006) was the first engineer-director of the Fairfax County Water Authority.

Corbalis was the son of James J. Corbalis, also an engineer, who had served as the Commissioner of Public Works for New York City, and Helen Corbalis. He had one brother, Robert, and two sisters, Rosemary and Joan.

Corbalis took his undergraduate degree in civil engineering at Manhattan College in New York in 1940, then did graduate work at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

He married his wife Ruth Sherwood Corbalis in 1947, and the couple had three children: son James, III, and two daughters, Janet and Catherine.

Corbalis became the sanitary engineer for Fairfax County in 1942. Like so many other men of his generation, Corbalis joined the military during World War II, serving in the Navy Civil Engineer Corps.

Following the war, Corbalis returned to working for Fairfax County until 1953, when he was named engineer-director of the recently-created Alexandria Sanitation Authority. Corbalis served as director of the Alexandria Authority for five years before returning to county service, taking over the position at the newly-created FCWA on September 1, 1958.

Corbalis retired from the FCWA in 1985 and died at the Inova Fairfax Hospital on September 5, 2006.

The James J. Corbalis, Jr., Water Treatment Plant was named in his honor.