“It started out with a good friend of mine” is a common theme on Rodney Spires’ journey. That’s how he got his lab analyst job with the Hannibal (Missouri) Wastewater Treatment Plant, how he joined the Missouri Water Environment Association Laboratory Practices Committee and how he was nominated for the 2017 Missouri Water Environment Association Laboratory Analyst Excellence Award (which he won).
Spires has forged a solid network of industry contacts and friendships in his career. They enable him to juggle full-time work at a challenging pure-oxygen wastewater treatment plant with extracurricular pursuits within and outside the industry.
Alongside these endeavors,
