People/Awards
The Orange County (California) Sanitation District’s Newhope-Placentia Trunk Sewer Replacement Project was named Wastewater Treatment Project of the Year by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The $70 million project replaced almost 7 miles of sewer pipeline in Fullerton and Anaheim to increase capacity.
Mike Flynn, Winchester (Kentucky) Municipal Utilities general manager, retired after 25 years.
Dustin Geatches was named town manager for Shelburn, Indiana. Geatches, the town’s contracted wastewater operator since 2017, merged that position into his new duties.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection presented a Plant Operations Excellence Award to the Polk County Utilities Division – Southwest Regional Wastewater
