How a Tulsa Plant Won Platinum Status During an Upgrade

A major plant upgrade didn’t keep the team at a Tulsa clean-water plant from meeting permit limits and earning a Platinum Peak Performance Award.
How a Tulsa Plant Won Platinum Status During an Upgrade
The team at the Lower Bird Creek facility includes, from left, back row, John Hines, operator; Falan Versaw, storekeeper; Tom Collins, Kenny Friend and Manny Verges, operators; and Eric DeAlba, mechanic; front row, Shawn Glen, plant superintendent; and Zane Briggs, operations supervisor.

A major upgrade was a long time coming for the Lower Bird Creek Water Pollution Control Facility.

The 20-year-old facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma, needed new headworks to solve a debris removal issue, plus a circular clarifier and new SCADA system. Completed in June 2012, the...

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