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President
Christoph Dobson, Sacramento Area
Sewer District
President-elect
Simon Watson, Brown and Caldwell
Vice President
Phil Scott, West Bay Sanitary District
Immediate Past President
Carrie Mattingly, City of San Luis Obispo
Treasurer
Zoeanne Tafolla, Vallejo Sanitation
and Flood Control District

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Senior WEF Delegate Director
Hugh Logan, City of Livermore
Executive Director
Elizabeth Allan, CAE, ABC
Wastewater Professional Staff
Chris Lundeen, CAE, Director of
Member & Leader Services

From the President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
News Briefs
WEF announces new executive director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
SBSA’s new name: Silicon Valley Clean Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

CWEA Office
7677 Oakport Street, Suite 600,
Oakland, CA 94621
[phone] [phone] fax
CWEA on the web: www.cwea.org

Join the Congressional Clean Water Caucus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

WEF Office
Membership 1-800-666-0206
601 Wythe Street
Alexandria, VA 22314-1994

CWEA President-Elect Simon Watson joins Brown and Caldwell . . 9

On the cover: CWEA’s new online member services center will enhance your CWEA membership. See page 27.
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Keep your path to certification smooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Member News
CWEA Past President Carrie Mattingly featured in news . . . . . . . . 9
Feature Articles
CWEA’s First “Plant of the Year”Award, 1929 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Drinking water program moves from DPH to SWRCB . . . . . . . . 17
Solving the challenge of non-dispersible wipes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
CWEA’s new online member services center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Technical Article
City of Anaheim’s Water Sustainability Campus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Departments
Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Annual Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Advertising rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Wastewater Professional April 2014