CWEA Wastewater Professional :: April 2014 March 2014 Volume 2 | Page 17

Feature Article | CWEA’s First “Plant of the Year” Award, 1929

Pacific Municipalities article. The publicity provided
The original U.C. Davis sewage treatment plant
by the League helped to stimulate conference atserved the campus until 1949 when a trickling filter
tendance and Association membership. It is worth
plant was constructed on the central campus. The
noting that the League of California Municipalities
CWEA History Committee assumed that the vintage
continued to provide support to CSWA by dedicating
1926 UC Davis sewage treatment plant would have
a page to CSWA activities in each edition of Western
been demolished years ago, however, thanks to the
Cities magazine starting in t