Determination, hard work and attention to detail have paid off for operators at the Kingsport (Tenn.) Water Treatment Plant. The plant was one of only three in the state to receive the 2012 EPA Partnership for Safe Drinking Water Director Award. Superintendent Sam Thomason is proud of her staff for the achievement.“We started working toward this award in 2005,” she says. “My predecessors, Niki Ensor and Laura Phillips, established the program, and I picked it up two years ago. I asked my team their opinion on what needed to be done to continue our success, and they met that challenge.”The
