Kennedy Arbuckle grew up wanting a career involving the outdoors and science. She found it in the clean-water profession.After high school in Plymouth, Wisconsin, she earned a degree in environmental health and water quality from Milwaukee Area Technical College and interned at her hometown’s wastewater treatment plant: “I knew right away this career was for me.”In 2023 she became a lab technician at the Kewaskum Wastewater Treatment Plant (0.75 mgd design). She was recognized as the 2025 Wisconsin Wastewater Operators Association’s Newcomer of the Year.Her influences: My supervisor, Ben Propson, has taught me a lot and helped me take that
