We often see firefighters involved in charity events. Why not clean-water operators? Here’s an activity many clean-water plant could replicate.The Northwest Herald...
Entries Tagged Fire Chief Project
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The Fire Chief Project: What's the 12th greatest breakthrough since the wheel?
According to The Atlantic magazine, your profession is more significant than:
· The lever and the nail.
· Television and radio.
· The automobile and...
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The Fire Chief Project: Are you what they smell?
I used to live in a beautiful Lake Michigan community. Every summer they have an art fair on the sidewalk that follows...
Editorial
Hail to the Chief
I hope you’ve been enjoying the Fire Chief Project Idea of the Month in recent issues of TPO. There we highlight operators...
Editorial
Engaging the Community
A Kansas city is taking what looks like an old-fashioned town hall approach to renewing a focus on wastewater and water infrastructure.In...
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The Fire Chief Project: Come and Visit...If You Dare
Fire departments do special things for kids at Halloween. Until now I’ve never heard of a clean-water plant holding a “haunted house.”...
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The Fire Chief Project: You Called Me What?
People in the clean-water profession are largely called operators, and they wear the title with pride. But does that term do you...
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The Fire Chief Project: A Missouri city holds its own “palooza”
You’ve heard of Garden Palooza? Pet Palooza? Rock Palooza? All kinds of “paloozas”? They’re events held to celebrate some area of interest...
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The Fire Chief Project: Where’s your education center?
The Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation recently cut the ribbon on a new education center at its 300 mgd Hyperion Wastewater Treatment...
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The Fire Chief project: Water Is Valuable. So Are You.
If you want to attain the status of the fire chief, your public needs to believe you’re as valuable as the fire...
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The Fire Chief Project: About those awards
Almost every week we read about this clean-water plant, or that clean-water agency, or that clean-water operator, winning an award from a...
Editorial
It’s Not Just for the Guys
It’s easy for the clean-water profession to overlook half the potential pool of future operators: women. But Kristen Meyers, P.E., and the...
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The Fire Chief Project: How does your stature affect your pay?
The Fire Chief Project is about elevating clean-water operators to the stature of the fire chief, in part so that people understand...
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The Fire Chief project: Is it time to get (a little) political?
Do you know who your State Senate, State Assembly, U.S. Representative and U.S. Senators are? Have you ever written them a letter...





