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EPA ANNOUNCES WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AWARDS

Release Date: 01/29/1998
Contact Information: Peyton Fleming, Press Office (617) 918-1008

BOSTON - Nine New England wastewater treatment plants were honored yesterday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's New England Office as winners of the 13th annual Operations and Maintenance Excellence Awards.

The awards were presented by Linda Murphy, director of the EPA's Office of Ecosystem Protection, at this week's annual meeting of the New England Water Pollution Control Association at the Marriott Copley Hotel in Boston.

"These publicly-owned wastewater plants are the cream of the crop for 1997," said John P. DeVillars, administrator of the EPA's New England Office. "The facilities - and the professionals who run them - deserve a lot of credit for making our water bodies cleaner and healthier."

The regional winners, which will now compete for EPA national Operations and Maintenance Excellence Awards, are:

• the Danbury, Conn. wastewater treatment plant, represented by chief operator Matt Isles.
• the Wilton, Maine wastewater treatment plant, represented by superintendent Russell Mathers.
• the Dartmouth, Mass. water pollution control facility, represented by plant manager Marcellino D. Andrade.
• the Southbridge, Mass. wastewater treatment facility, represented by project manager Paul Krasnecky.
• the Upper Blackstone, Mass. water pollution abatement district, represented by engineer/director Thomas Walsh.
• the Rockingham County Home, N.H. wastewater treatment plant, represented by chief operator John Harden.
• the Quonset Point, R.I. wastewater treatment plant, represented by superintendent Dennis Colberg.
• the Whitingham, Vt. wastewater treatment facility, represented by chief operator Carl Jillson.