Award Articles

Mindi Dearing never stops pushing the envelope. Twenty-six years removed from her bachelor’s degree in biological science, she earned an MBA. Several years...

Eric Osborne ended up in the water industry because of a call from a prospective employer that didn’t come.Now, after 30 years,...

It’s been 23 years since Clifford Creeks Jr. traveled the short distance, just five minutes from where he grew up, to the...

You won’t find many women senior wastewater operators today. You’ll find even fewer who operate a four-story, 200 wet-ton-per-day multiple- hearth furnace. Yet,...

In a mining district of northeastern Ontario, biosolids from wastewater treatment plants are being used to revegetate land that had been covered...

People/Awards Lisa Rhea was hired as the senior water resources manager for the City of St. Petersburg, Florida. She will oversee the city’s...

The forward-thinking initiatives of 43 water utilities are being recognized as they reimagine partnering and engagement, watershed stewardship, and recovery of resources...

One problem treatment plant operators rarely, if ever, face is surplus money to deal with the everyday issues they face. Therefore, perhaps by...

People/AwardsKevin Kirwan was promoted to senior vice president and chief environmental and operational excellence officer at American Water, a New Jersey-based water...

Rising in the ranks as an engineer and designer of clean-water plants, Tom Sigmund, P.E., likely never dreamed that someday he’d be...

It took only three years for the new leadership at Eagle River Wastewater Treatment Plant to earn the Laboratory of the Year...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The subject of this article was interviewed in March 2019. After publication of the article in August, Treatment Plant Operator...

The Nebraska city of Norfolk is home to 24,000 people, but the Water Pollution Control Plant treats a BOD loading typical of...

For decades, the City of Lebanon Authority in Pennsylvania applied Class B biosolids to cropland in liquid or cake form. But in...