When Orren West asked his friends at the Water Environment Federation’s Technical Exhibition and Conference what they thought about a job offer he was considering in the fall of 2012, the feedback was strong and uniform: It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
From the late 1960s through the early 1980s, many clean-water operators took the technical challenge and joy of starting up a greenfield plant. Not many have that opportunity today, but West got it when he signed on as the first superintendent of the new 28 mgd (design) Northern Treatment Plant at the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District in Denver.
The advanced
