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The Greening of the Tweens
Web Sites Offer Opportunities for the Eco-Conscious Young

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Remember when you were a kid, and the only climate change you were concerned with was the difference in temperature between your third-grade classroom and the playground at recess time? Today’s children are growing up with terms such as “climate change,” “global warming,” and “reduce, reuse, recycle” as part of their vocabulary. Read more

Bill Grandner is a senior stationary engineer with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, and is the superintendent at the Owls Head Wastewater Treatment plant in Brooklyn. He is responsible for the operation, maintenance, and repair of the plant that treats an average dry weather flow of 454,200 m³ (120 mgd). He deals directly with the neighboring community responding to complaints and updating them on conditions at the plant.

He is also the operator representative to the New York Water Environment Association (NYWEA) Board, and chief operator for the Select Society of Sanitary Sludge Shovelers (5S). Grandner makes sure that New York’s Operations Challenge team is up and running and that NYWEA is represented in the national competition. He also constantly monitors the 5S members and assesses penalties for not wearing their shovel.

— Nominated by Robert Adamski, vice president of Municipal Infrastructure Programs for Gannett Fleming (Locust Valley, N.Y.).

Know a wastewater “pro” who deserves recognition? E-mail Meghan Oliver at moliver@wef.org for information on how to nominate a hard-working friend or co-worker.

Breaking Ground!


Left to right: Edward A. Kondracki; Rocco Maiellano, EMUA executive director; Richard Alaimo, president of The Alaimo Group (Mt. Holly, N.J.); Deputy Mayor Michael Schmidt; EMUA Commissioners Willard Weikel, Dennis Dugan, Joseph De Julius (chairman), and Joseph Fisicaro; and Wayne Simpson, senior associate at The Alaimo Group. Click on image for larger view.

Evesham Municipal Utilities Authority (EMUA; Marlton, N.J.) recently broke ground for an $11 million capital improvements project at its Kings Grant Wastewater Treatment Facility in Evesham Township, N.J. Representatives from EMUA were joined by Evesham Township officials for a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony at the 4-ha (10-ac) Barton Run Boulevard site, where the existing facility will be replaced with a fully automated plant that will be more cost-effective and more efficient as well as more protective of the surrounding pinelands ecosystem.
 
The project is funded, in part, through a $6 million, no-interest loan from the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection’s New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust. The remaining $5 million is funded through traditional bonds.

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