Aurora Water interim director Dan Mikesell explains what motivates employees at the award-winning Charles A. Wemlinger and Thomas J. Griswold water treatment plants: “We’ve always felt it’s important to provide customers with the best water. Ten years ago we developed a culture that would help us achieve our goal of being an industry leader. The staff bought into that culture.”Employees at each plant in Aurora, Colo., worked as a team to achieve the Phase IV Excellence designation (highest available) from the Partnership for Safe Water, improving plant processes along the way. These included a filter breakthrough alarm to notify operators
