Posted by Jared Shepherd New presidents make their marks on America within the first 100 days of taking office. Does our new CEO expect to make her mark on water quality in her first 100 days? Kyle Dreyfuss-Wells Kyle Dreyfuss-Wells was tapped as our new Chief Executive Officer this month and she will...
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Ray Weeden, a Westerly Security Officer in 1987, displays his certificate of completion of Wastewater Treatment Plant Operation classes. If ever there was a story of someone working their way to the top, it’s Ray. Ray Weeden is nearing retirement as Director of Operation & Maintenance in February after...
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If you watched Reading Rainbow as a kid, or if you’re still tuned in to today’s incarnation of the PBS classic, then this episode proves the theme song’s line, “I can go anywhere.” Host LaVar Burton takes a trip to and through a wastewater treatment plant. And while some...
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How can wastewater treatment plant workers spend hours around sewage and not get overwhelmed by the smell? Former Treatment Plant Operator and current manager Christen Wood gets that question a lot, and she said it’s all science.
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As swimmer Michael Phelps places more gold medals around his neck during these Olympic Games in Rio, we wondered how he’d fare in an environment more unusual than a 50-meter chlorinated pool. Southerly first-stage aeration tanks Could Phelps swim in one of these long bubbling channels known as an...
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We don’t think this is the Force George Lucas or J.J. Abrams had in mind. Still, clean water wouldn’t be the same without it. Our own treatment-plant Jedi Christen Wood shows us how force and the rarely-seen sludge “explosion” helps keep a sewer line clear and gives the Death...
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Your toilet can’t take an extended holiday. Which is one of many reasons our shift workers like Christen don’t either. Christen Wood is an Operator at our Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant and she was working on Thanksgiving with a number of her colleagues. She sent us this video after...
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A former lab analyst and now Wastewater Plant Operator, Christen Wood’s career path has led her from veterinary medicine to sewage treatment. We asked her about opportunities in Wastewater Operations. How did you get into wastewater? I sort of fell into it! The local paper ran a column on...
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When storms pop up over Lake Erie, our wastewater treatment plant operators are ready. It’s a bonus when someone has a camera ready, too. These amazing images were taken by one of our consultants from Brown & Caldwell by the name of Nick Bucurel. Nick is on-call at all...
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Parents, it’s that time of year again. And we can make a few connections between our work and your kids’ first-day jitters that you might not have expected. Class is in session. 1. Sure maybe it stinks, but where would you be without it? OK, the end of summer...
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