An equipment failure led the staff at the Somersworth (New Hampshire) Wastewater Treatment Facility to make what they thought was a temporary...
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Editorial
Worth Noting - April 2020
People/Awards
Lynn Miller was hired as superintendent of the Sugar Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Alexander City, Alabama.
Clint Baze was hired as...
Editorial
Diana Heimbach Started Her Wastewater Career by Working in the Laboratory. Now She's a Project Manager.
If Diana Heimbach needs a break from work, she can always head out to her parents’ farm and tend the dairy goats.
But...
Editorial
Brian McDade Has a Passion for Water Treatment and a Calling to Help Others
The water business was an accident for Brian McDade.
“For most of my life, I wanted to obtain a psychology degree,” says McDade,...
Editorial
A California District Partners With Other Utilities to Meet All of Its Customers’ Irrigation Needs
In a part of the country where freshwater supplies are often scarce, the Olivenhain (California) Municipal Water District is doing its part.
The...
Editorial
Worth Noting - March 2020
People/Awards
The Township of Edison, New Jersey, hired Robert Smith as director of its Water and Sewer Utilities Department.
The Town of Bridgton, Maine,...
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Award-Winning Engineer Talks Job Duties Overseeing Major Projects
Raed Armouti — recent winner of the American Water Works Association’s 2019 George Fuller Award for wide-ranging contributions to the water industry...
Editorial
Solar Helps Power an Arkansas City Toward 100% Clean Energy
The city of Fayetteville, Arkansas, jumped on the solar energy bandwagon in a big way in 2019.
In September, the city in northwestern...
Editorial
Rhonda Harris Always Knew What She Wanted to Do. She Became an Engineer and Training Expert.
When Rhonda Harris was 6 years old, she knew what she wanted to do: “I was going to be a civil engineer....
Editorial
Frequent Job Changes Provide Solid Foundation for Senior Operator’s Career Advancement
For Garon Goularte, frequent job changes have been a good thing.
In moving from one California facility to the next and gradually stepping...
Editorial
The AWWA George Warren Fuller Award Recognizes Raed Armouti for Multiple Contributions to the Water Industry
Raed Armouti grew up understanding water in a way few people do.
Although he didn’t know it as a boy, water would form...
Editorial
Worth Noting - February 2020
People/AwardsMany staff members from NEW Water in Green Bay took part in the 53rd annual Wisconsin Wastewater Operators’ Association conference. During the...
Videos
Award-Winning Operator Thankful for Updated Wastewater Treatment Plant
Nancy Pugh of the Louisa County (Virginia) Water Authority was recently named Wastewater Operator Specialist of the Year by the Virginia Rural...
Editorial
Worth Noting - January 2020
People/Awards
The West County (California) Wastewater District hired four executives: Andrew Clough, deputy general manager; Justin Lovell, administrative services department manager; Michael Savannah,...















