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Liliana Maldonado
  

Liliana Maldonado is a member of the 2007-2008 Board of Trustees for the Water Environment Federation (WEF), an international organization of water quality professionals headquartered in Alexandria, Va.

She is currently Senior Vice President and Northeast Regional Manager for CH2M HILL. Prior to her current position, Liliana managed multiple water and wastewater projects, including the first 2 years of an unprecedented $2.1-billion water and wastewater capital improvement program in Puerto Rico and the conceptual development and design of the Virginia Initiative Plant, a state of the art wastewater treatment facility that incorporated a new process for biological nutrient removal. The project received the American Consulting Engineering Council’s prestigious “Grand Award” in 1992.


A WEF member since 1979, she is also an active member and Past President of the Virginia Water Environment Association (VWEA). She was also a member of the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) Research Council from 1993 to 1996 and of the Advisory Boards for the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Puerto Rico Civil Engineering Infrastructure Research Center. She is also a co-patent holder for the High-rate biological wastewater treatment process using activated sludge recycle, U.S. Patent 4,867,883, and has published extensively in numerous grey and peer-reviewed technical publications in the water and engineering industry.

Liliana received the Enslow-Hedgepeth Award from VWEA in 1990; the Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni Award from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1995; WEF’s prestigious Arthur Sidney Bedell Award in 1999; the Hispanic Engineers National Achievement Awards Corporation award for Professional Achievement in 2002, and the Outstanding Alumni Award from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez in 2007. 

She is a registered professional engineer in Puerto Rico and Virginia, and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. Liliana received a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Puerto Rico and a M.S. in sanitary engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.





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