A Self-Described Private Person Stands Out in the Kansas Water Operator Community

Perry Smith’s varied background made him ideally suited to operating a new reverse osmosis facility in southwest Kansas.

A Self-Described Private Person Stands Out in the Kansas Water Operator Community

From left, Luke West, Wheatland water treatment manager, Perry Smith, and Francis Lobmeyer, master electrician, examine the operations schematic on the Allen-Bradley VersaView 5200 display (Rockwell Automation).

Perry Smith still doesn’t know who nominated him for his awards. He certainly wasn’t pleased about standing up in front of a crowd of people.

“I’m kind of a private person,” he says. In 2019 he received the Water Plant Operator of the Year award from the Kansas Rural...

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