We hear this kind of story fairly often. Faced with a $100,000 remedy for a treatment plant problem, the operations team finds a way to solve it for $5,000 or less.Both the Water Environment Federation and the American Water Works Association have ways to recognize operating teams for that kind of cleverness and creativity. WEF calls it the annual Operator Ingenuity Contest and announces the winners each year at the WEFTEC conference.AWWA calls it the Gimmicks & Gadgets Contest. Winners are featured each year in the October issue of the association’s Opflow magazine and are honored at the Water Infrastructure
