Eagle River Wastewater Treatment Facility
Recipient Of Prestigious AMSA Platinum Award

Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility's Eagle River Wastewater Treatment Facility staff received the Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies (AMSA) Platinum Award in recognition of the facility's five consecutive years without a wastewater treatment violation.

Congratulations are in order for Johnny Womac, General Foreman, and Operators Mike Hill, Kevin McKinnon and Mike Silvernail. The Utility's O&M Division deserves special thanks to for their assistance in keeping the treatment plant in outstanding operational condition.

The award, presented to AWWU at AMSA's National Environmental Policy Forum in Washington DC, honored the Eagle River facility as one of only 15 wastewater treatment plants, out of 700 nationwide, as a recipient of the Platinum Award.

The Eagle River Wastewater Treatment Facility is a 2.5 million gallon per day tertiary, three-stage, treatment plant constructed in 1992. Tertiary treatment provides excellent protection for Eagle River, its aquatic life and recreational users. The facility receives wastewater from Eagle River residents and treats it prior to discharging the effluent into Eagle River after removing 98 percent of the pollutants.

To qualify for a Platinum Award, a wastewater treatment facility must receive an AMSA Gold Award for five consecutive years. Each Gold Award signifies no wastewater treatment violations for a particular year.