Industry

West Basin Municipal Water District, based in Carson, has received two professional accolades in a two-week period of time. The first, received in mid-August, was the prestigious 23rd Annual Achievement of Excellence in Procurement® (AEP) Award for 2018 from the National Procurement Institute, Inc. (NPI). The second was a perfect …

Water industry veteran Adam Ly has recently been hired as the new Assistant General Manager (AGM) at Palmdale Water District (PWD). Ly most recently worked at for Downey-based Liberty Utilities (LU) California, a private utilities company which provides services in Arizona, Texas and California including sites in Apple Valley and …

The city of Chula Vista, in concert with the national law firm of Baron & Budd, announced that they have filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of California against Monsanto Company for widespread polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination. Chula Vista is the sixth California city, represented …

Orange County Water District (OCWD) was recently notified by the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation that they are to receive $350,00 for two of their Water Purification Research projects. Reclamation has selected 16 research projects to receive a total of $3.5 million under the Desalination and Water Purification Research Program …

Registered professional engineer Karen Knight has been named as the Director of Security, Safety, and Law Enforcement for the Bureau of Reclamation. Reclamation’s Commissioner Brenda Burman made the announcement of Knight’s new position saying: “Nothing is more important to us than the safety of the public, our employees, and our …

Leucadia Wastewater District (LWD) in Carlsbad is currently accepting Teacher Grant applications from schools within LWD’s service area which includes nine elementary schools as well as Diegueno Middle School and La Costa Canyon High School. Three grants of up to $2,000 per grant has been allocated for teachers in local …