It’s easy for the clean-water profession to overlook half the potential pool of future operators: women. But Kristen Meyers, P.E., and the team at the North Shore Sanitary District in Illinois aren’t making that mistake.
The district recently took students from the Lake County (Ill.) YWCA TechGYRLS summer camp on a tour of the laboratory at the wastewater treatment facility in Gurnee.
The girls did everything from looking at vials of dragonfly nymphs that live in the effluent, to sniffing samples of biosolids cake. Such activities help further the aims of The Fire Chief Project:
Raise clean-water operators to the status of the
