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Greetings from the (Past) President

by Teresa Herrera

What a gift, to be allowed to write yet another “Greetings” to our Bay Section membership.  Leo Gonzalez has asked me to write this month’s article and I do so with great enthusiasm.

The big event that just occurred in our CWEA world is the 2002 Annual Conference in Sacramento .  Many Bay Section members were responsible for organizing the conference and they should all be proud of the fine job they did.  It turns out that this year’s conference was the most successful, ever, in terms of number of attendees.  There were many positive comments about the conference that indicate the success of the overall event.  I’d like to convey my thanks to all those members who worked so hard on putting the conference together, led by Karl Royer of EBDA and Ray Busch of Oro Loma. 

Some of the highlights of the Conference are:

Award Winners!  The Bay Section had a good showing at this year’s state awards program.  The following Bay Section members were recognized:

City of Livermore – First Place , Collection System of the Year, Medium System

Mark Cavallero, CCCSD – Third Place , Elec./Instrumentation Person of the Year

Laura Johnson, EBMUD – Third Place , Supervisor of the Year

Jeff Carson, Oro Loma – Second Place , Operator of the Year

Oro Loma Sanitary District – Second Place , Plant of the Year over 10 mgd

Mary Johnson, DDSD – Second Place Laboratory Person of the Year

CCCSD, SBSA, Palo Alto – First Place , Public Education, Small Budget

EBMUD, WWTP Influent Pump Station Odor Control – Engineering Achievement

Congratulations to all these individuals and agencies for their well-deserving recognition.

Several other items of note: 

The State Safety Committee welcomed DelMarie Snodgrass of the City of San Leandro as the new Third Year Director for the Committee.  Welcome DelMarie!

The Operations Challenge was well attended and great fun this year.  The Bay Section will be represented at the WEF Conference in Chicago by The Main Force… made up of members from Oro Loma Sanitary District (Angelino Santos), Castro Valley Sanitary District (Roland Williams and Sergio Ramirez), Union Sanitary District (David Stoops)… and, The EBMUD Slingers, Division II Champions 2001 at WEF.  Members of this team are Carol Weir, Brian Belfeuille, David Freitas, and Patrick Virgin.  Good luck guys and gal!

Last, and not least… our own, John Larson stepped down as President of CWEA.  Thanks, John for all your hard work this past year. 

Well, that’s about it for my Greetings this month.  There were several actions taken at the Northern Regional Committee meeting that will affect our members, but I’ll leave that for next month’s article. 

Until next time, take care and be safe …

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