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Member News

CWEA President-Elect Simon
Watson joins Brown and Caldwell

management – focused on helping organizations integrate best practices and proactively meet the needs of
their customers.

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CWEA Past President Carrie Mattingly featured in news story on
planned treatment plant upgrades

rown and Caldwell is pleased to announce that
Simon Watson has joined the firm as a Senior Utility Performance Consultant in the Solutions Delivery
Group (SDG). Simon is well known in the industry
for his 23 years of service at Orange County Sanitation
District as the Maintenance
Manager and serving various positions on the CWEA
Board and TCP Executive
committee. He is currently
the CWEA President-Elect.
He has been a member of
CWEA since 1994.
In his new role, Simon
Simon Watson
will be working in a nationwide multidisciplinary team of industry experts with
collaborative ability to guide utilities through successful business optimization programs. The SDG team
provides a range of services – from financial planning
rate studies through operational optimization and asset

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he San Luis Obispo Tribune news story describes
the upcoming $9.5m treatment plant upgrades
and the plans for more energy-efficient systems.
The sprawling facility, which operates on 37 acres,
is an intricate network of concrete pools and treatment areas that transform sewage into water safe
enough to be released into the city’s creeks.
Many of the mechanisms used date to the plant’s
last upgrade in 1994, but others have been in place for
more than 60 years.
The city partnered with PG&E to facilitate the
upgrades through a program that uses projected operational savings to finance the upgrades. See the full
story at http://wp.cwea.org/?p=8684

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