When Ken Rutt first met Jeri, his wife-to-be, the road ahead led not only to a happy marriage, but also to a successful career in the clean-water profession.
“My father-in-law, Bill Miller, worked for Metro Wastewater in Denver,” says Rutt, wastewater division superintendent at the Broomfield Wastewater Reclamation Facility and winner of the 2017 Rocky Mountain Water Environment Association William D. Hatfield Award. “He gave me a tour of the Denver plant and told me about the water-quality training program at a local university.”
Rutt enrolled in the program, earned his degree in water-quality management, and got an internship at the
