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The Official Magazine of the Central States Water Environment Association, Inc. INNOVATIVE WASTEWATER MONITORING FOR COVID-19 MITIGATION PLUS: Biosolids and COVID-19 GWS Midwest Student Design Winner: Marquette University 2020-2021 Buyers’ Guide UN-Water Adds WEF as Partner Central States Water Environment Association Environment Water States Central 1021 Alexandra Blvd, Crystal Lake, IL 60014 ADDRESS REQUESTED SERVICE www.cswea.org • Wisconsin • Minnesota • Illinois Fall 2020 © 2020 Lakeside Equipment Corporation. All trademarks owned by Lakeside Equipment Corporation. A BETTER SOLUTION WITH FLEXIBLE OPTIONS. Our Headworks Packaged System – H-PAC® – combines our Raptor® or Hydronic T Screening product line with our SpiraGrit™ Vortex Grit Chamber in an elevated pre-engineered headworks system. Capable of handling fl ows as high as 12 mgd, the H-PAC can be installed above or below ground and its compact design uses less space and costs less than other packaged systems. 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WATER ENGINEERING | CIVIL ENGINEERING | GIS | MUNICIPAL FINANCIAL SERVICES | ASSET MANAGEMENT INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROLS | ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING | STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING | COMMUNICATION SERVICES Advanced Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc. www.ae2s.com PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE From our very beginning we’ve focused on Lemonade WHAT’S IMPORTANT... By Mark Eddington oes anyone remember our economy?” If you are a POTW $26 million of treatment plant Carnac the Magnificent? or a consultant that has not prepped improvements. That savings Let me rephrase; does your public boards and clients to get allowed my district to dramatically anyone other than Rusty or their ducks in a row for massive public accelerate initiatives towards cleaner Beth remember Carnac the infrastructure stimulus grants coming water, energy independence, and DMagnificent? I am assuming there are down the pike you should be charged regionalization. In my humble a few of us, but for you millennials: go with malpractice. If anything was learned opinion, the only difference between To us, your project isn’t a job - it’s an opportunity to to your Google machine and YouTube from the financial crisis of 2007-2008, it now and the fall of 2008 is that the it. Carnac was a recurring character was public works projects with planning status of our nation’s health and make a positive impact, protect future generations, and portrayed by Johnny Carson on the and design complete will achieve massive economic crisis are significantly Tonight Show (yes, there was life before grant assistance. This money will need more challenging. More folks are ensure the vitality of where we live and work. Jimmy Fallon). For you crazy kids that to hit the street in the fall of 2021 and sick and out of work while our have never heard of Johnny Carson, those that are, please forgive me for public infrastructure continues to he was a thing. Johnny Carson is to the using this term, “shovel-ready,” will crumble, and we sit on the precipice 1980s what Charli D’Amelio (ask your again be in the cat-bird’s seat. My district of an environmental breaking point. teenager) is to the 2020s. In any event, learned an important lesson after the Perhaps we can all agree on a few Carnac’s “gift” was he could “psychically 2008 national election; always have a things (1) 2020 sucks, (2) we are ‘divine’ unknown answers to unseen project planned, designed, and on the all weary of COVID-19, (3) our questions.” Carson would come on-stage shelf ready to take full advantage of grant environment is screaming out for in full costume and his trusty sidekick opportunities. Through grants and free help, and (4) we are all tired of the (Ed McMahon) would hand him financing, we shaved $13 million off polarizing effect of politics. hermetically sealed envelopes with unknown questions inside. Carnac would put the sealed envelope to his head, “Our industry is in store for a renaissance divine the answer and announce it to the audience. For example, Carnac would and there is no better time to be loudly answer “Sis Boom Bah,” tear open a member of the clean-water community.” the envelope (in his special way),and read the question “Describe the sound made when a sheep explodes.” Then, the audience would go wild. ESG is a development firm that works Providing engineering and related services to help clients achieve success. Fast forward to today, 2020 has not with clients to create new income given us much to laugh about, and I am WATER ENGINEERING | CIVIL ENGINEERING | GIS | MUNICIPAL FINANCIAL SERVICES | ASSET MANAGEMENT streams and revenue resiliency. We no Carnac. But if I were to be handed an INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROLS | ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING | STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING | COMMUNICATION SERVICES do this by monetizing existing assets, envelope today (11/02/20) the answer or assets we build, and connecting I would give to the unseen question customers to markets that need is “The largest public infrastructure To learn more, their resources.