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CWEA Member Chris Morris, CSM4, Named Public Works Superintendent for City of Hercules
Congratulations to CWEA member Chris Morris, CSM4, on his new role as Public Works Superintendent for the City of Hercules. Morris brings nearly 20 years of public works and wastewater collection experience, most recently serving as Wastewater Collection Supervisor for the City of American Canyon. In 2025, his team was recognized as the Redwood Empire...
Northern Sacramento Valley Section’s Diverse Board Supports the Development of Robust Training Programs
The CWEA community consists of 17 Local Sections, each serving different regions of the state. A key benefit of participating in a local section is that it is managed by member volunteers dedicated to providing training and networking opportunities that are often unavailable at local trade schools or colleges. The member volunteers of the local...
Stronger Together: What Six Years of Membership Data Reveal About CWEA’s Growing Community
Each year, CWEA asks its members to share their perspectives through the annual Membership Survey. This is an opportunity for operators, engineers, lab analysts, pretreatment specialists, and countless others to shape the future of their professional association. This year, 1,178 members completed the survey, marking our third consecutive year of achieving a response rate above...
California’s Advanced Clean Fleet Regulations Today
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is about to release the revised and final version of the Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) regulatory amendments. The last time the California Association of Sanitation Agencies (CASA) published an article on this topic (May 2024), CASA had just begun working with CARB and its staff to amend the ACF...
New Desalination Facility is a Major Milestone for Drought-Smart Infrastructure Solutions in the Delta
Update from the California Department of Water Resources Following several years of planning and investment, the City of Antioch has reached a climate-resilient milestone: a new brackish water desalination facility near its existing water treatment plant. The facility, supported by $10 million in Proposition 1 desalination grant funding from the Department of Water Resources (DWR)...
Tertiary Treatment Plant of the Year: Victorville
Project Partners: City of Victorville and Woodard & Curran (which operates the Victorville Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant (IWWTP)) Facility: Southern California Logistics Airport (SCLA) Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant, which includes the Victorville Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant (IWWTP), located at the former George Air Force Base in Victorville Established: IWWTP was first built in 2012 Average...

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