Career Path Program Could Fill the Operator Retirement Gap

A training program at Prince William County’s Water Reclamation Facility lets students and career-changers in on the ground floor of the profession.
Career Path Program Could Fill the Operator Retirement Gap
Doug Chapman, liquids support specialist, checks dissolved oxygen readings in the H.L. Mooney Advanced Water Reclamation Facility aeration basins.

Baby boomers are retiring from the clean-water industry in record numbers, and there is strong competition in the trades for the kinds of workers needed to replace outgoing operators.

In response, the Prince William County (Virginia) Sanitation Authority launched an...

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