Award Articles

Barbara Jackson, Vernia Hawthorne and Jewel Minor entered the wastewater profession from different areas, but they had one thing in common: determination...

They don’t hire licensed operators when there’s an opening at the Island Water Treatment Plant in Sanibel, Florida. “We take new people and...

Chris Patterson is right where he’s meant to be: gas, water and wastewater manager for the city of Jacksonville, Alabama. His job is...

Think of the Harvest-Monrovia (Alabama) Water and Sewer Authority infrastructure as a big wheel. The Burwell Road and Jeff Road wastewater treatment plants...

People/Awards The Williston (North Dakota) Water Resource Recovery Facility was dedicated to Monte Meiers, a longtime city employee and former director of public...

Thirty-two water utilities are being recognized for their leadership in community engagement, watershed stewardship and recovery of resources such as water, energy...

It started with a landfill running out of space and on borrowed time. It ended with an energy plant that each year...

Earth Day began on April 22, 1970. The biosolids beneficial use program in Fort Wayne, Indiana, goes back almost that far. The city’s...

If you’re building a brand-new surface water treatment plant, facing new requirements for Cryptosporidium and disinfection byproducts, and importing technology that’s never...

Most lifelong residents of North Platte, Nebraska, don’t know where the wastewater treatment plant is. That’s exactly how Doug Meyer, superintendent, wants...

People/EventsSteve Tarallo was named associate vice president and manager of the water/wastewater unit for Dewberry’s office in Baltimore. Pleasant Mount Welding of...

A major water plant malfunction last year in Norton, Kansas, caused 11 cylinders of chlorine to empty inside a process building, destroying copper...

There’s nothing fancy about the Pascagoula/Moss Point (Mississippi) Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant. Day by day, year by year, it churns out clean...

To Matt Jenkins, optimizing a wastewater treatment plant is a lot like tuning a guitar. “You can never just tune one or two...