People/Awards
The Clayton County (Georgia) Water Authority earned two awards from the Georgia Association of Water Professionals:
The W.B. Casey Water Resource Recovery Facility Central Wastewater Lab in Jonesboro earned its second Laboratory QA/QC Gold Award.
The Northeast Water Reclamation Facility in Rex earned the George W. Burke Safety Award.
Cathy Green, Orange County Water District director was elected vice president of the Association of California Water Agencies.
The Holmes Harbor Sewer District in Freeland, Washington, received a 2020 Wastewater Treatment Plant Outstanding Performance Award from the Department of Ecology.
The Plainview Water District received the Gold Engineering Excellence Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies New York for advanced oxidation process pilot studies with H2M architects + engineers.
The Illinois American Water Peoria Water Treatment Plant and its water quality team earned the Directors Award from the Partnership for Safe Water for maintaining Phase III certification for 20 years.
California Water Service Group promoted Sophie M. James to chief water quality officer, a new officer-level position.
Chad Roberts, water treatment plant supervisor with the Norfolk Water Division, received the George Warren Fuller Award from the Nebraska Section AWWA. The Norfolk Water Division also received the 2021 Safety Award.
The Columbus (Nebraska) Wastewater Treatment Facility received a Gold Award and the Scott Wilber Award for the most outstanding facility from the Nebraska Water Environment Association.
Michael Ficarella was named superintendent of water and wastewater for the City of Batavia, New York.
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Events
March 9
AWWA Fire Flow Testing and Assessing Distribution System Health webinar. Visit www.awwa.org.
March 21-24
WEF Public Health and Water Conference & Wastewater Disease Surveillance Summit, Duke Energy Convention Center, Cincinnati. Visit www.wef.org.
March 23
AWWA Using AMI Data in Hydraulic Modeling webinar. Visit www.awwa.org.
