Like Adam Sandler’s character Bobby Boucher Jr. of the hit comedy “The Waterboy,” Houston Public Works knows what it takes to make “high-quality H2O.”
The HPW team brought home top honors at Texas Water 2022, the largest regional water conference in the U.S. It was the first time the conference, conducted April 4-7 in San Antonio at the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center, was held in person since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Listed below are the awards the department took home in the following categories:
- Water Conservation and Reuse Award (smart utility checkup program)
- Biosolids Management Award (Tika Gautam)
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (Aisha Niang)
- Community Outreach and Education Programs (Protect Our Pipes – SSO Prevention) Outreach Program)
- Outstanding Operator of the Year (Victor Riels)
Select Society of Sanitary Sludge Shovelers (you cannot join the society; you must be “selected on the basis of merit.”)
- Jeff Masek
- Phillip Goodwin
Competitions
- Tops Ops (first and third place)
- 69thStreet Poo Mafia (third place for process control, third place for electrical)
- Dedicated volunteer award (Hector Montanez)
- Best-tasting Water (third place for the East Purification Plant)
