News and Press Releases - 2007/2008
APRIL 2008
Johnson County Wastewater Names Communications Director
OLATHE, KS (Johnson County Square) – Lorette “Lori” Sand of Kansas City, Mo., has been named director of communications for Johnson County Wastewater (JCW). She will assume her new duties on May 1.
Sand was director of communications for Blue Valley Schools USD No. 229 in Johnson County from 1993 to July 2007.
During the past year, she has served as a media relations manager and liaison for a variety of clients, including pro bono work for the families of Kelsey Smith and Kara Kopetsky. She has also worked as a freelance reporter for the Kansas City Star and an event planner for the Gardner Area Chamber of Commerce.
“We had many excellent candidates for this position,” said John O’Neil, JCW Administrator. “Lori’s communications expertise and her experience in the Kansas City region will be great assets to our organization.”
Sand holds a bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University.
SEPTEMBER 2007
Four Prestigious Awards for JCW
Johnson County Wastewater has received four prestigious Gold and Silver Peak Performance Awards from the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA).
The department was the recipient of three gold honors and one silver award for the year of 2006. The honors were ceremonially presented Thursday, September 20, to Kurt Winters, director of Operations and Maintenance, and four employees from the four award-winning wastewater treatment facilities. The others included Curtis Norris, assistant superintendent of the Douglas L. Smith Middle Basin Treatment Plant; Ted Sanborn, superintendent at the New Century AirCenter treatment facility; Mary Pegg, superintendent at the Nelson and Blue River treatment facilities; and Kenneth Kellison, assistant director of treatment.
The presentation was made by Commissioner John Toplikar, vice chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, during the Board’s weekly business session.
JCW received the awards and was recognized at the NACWA’s recent 2007 Summer Conference at Cleveland, Ohio.
The Peak Performance Award program by the national organization recognizes public wastewater treatment facilities for their outstanding National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Systems (NPDES) permit compliance records.
Gold Awards honor treatment facilities that have demonstrated 100 percent compliance with their NPDES permits for an entire calendar year.
Silver Awards recognize facilities that meet all but one to five of their permit requirements during a calendar year.
The Gold Peak Performance Award winning facilities were:
-Myron K. Nelson Treatment Complex, 4800 Nall Avenue, Mission; and,
-Douglas L. Smith Middle Basin Treatment Facility, 10001 College Blvd., and Blue River Main Treatment Facility, 2625 W. 151st Street, both in Overland Park.
The industrial waste treatment facility, 50 Lee Blvd., at the AirCenter near Gardner was the recipient of the Silver Peak Performance Award.
Press Release Archive
2007
- August, 2007
Beth Brandel is the new Director of Business Operations and Planning. - August 8, 2007
...lifted a health advisory to residents living near the Indian Creek tributary ... - August 3, 2007
Avoid contact with water in Indian Creek tributary ... - April, 2007
Kurt Winters is the new Operations and Maintenance Division Director. - March, 2007
Randy Robinson, Director of Administration, joining the city of Henderson, Nevada, as Deputy Utility Services Director. - February, 2007
County funds major expansion of wastewater treatment facility...add a nutrient removal system and to expand the treatment capacity of the Douglas L. Smith Middle Basin Treatment Plant in Overland Park.
2006
- September, 2006
... JCW news release and following lifted health advisory near Turkey Creek ... - June, 2006
... JCW has lifted a health advisory near the Dykes Branch ... - June, 2006
... health advisory to residents living near the Dykes Branch tributary stream ... - May, 2006
... two individuals posing as JCW employees attempting to collect money on wastewater bills ... - May, 2006
... ASPA chapter to honor Smith with 2006 award ... - March, 2006
... JCW moves to new Johnson County Sunset Drive Office ... - January, 2006
... John P. O’Neil has been named the new administrator of the department ...
2005
- December, 2005
... Douglas L. Smith honored by BOCC. - September, 2005
... Douglas L. Smith plans retirement. - September, 2005
... JCW mourns death of Myron Nelson.
2004
- November 4, 2004
...has lifted a health advisory to residents living near Royse Swimming Pool. - October 20, 2004
... a health advisory to residents living near Royse Swimming Pool.
2003
- April 14, 2003
...has lifted a health advisory to residents living or recreating near a small tributary stream of Indian Creek... - April 10, 2003
...has issued a precautionary health advisory to residents living or recreating near a small tributary stream of Indian Creek due to a break in the sewer line in the general vicinity of 104th and Cody... - January 9, 2003
...has lifted a health advisory to residents living or recreating near a small tributary stream of Mill Creek due to a blockage in the sewer line. The sanitary sewer line is in the general vicinity of 119th Street and Ridgeview Drive...
2002
- December 30, 2002
...has issued a precautionary health advisory to residents living or recreating near a small tributary stream of Mill Creek due to a back up in the sewer line in the general vicinity of 119th and Ridgeview Drive... - October 31, 2002
...has lifted a health advisory to residents living near the Mill Creek... - October 24, 2002
...has issued a health advisory to residents living or recreating near Mill Creek from north of Johnson Drive... - July 16, 2002
...has lifted a precautionary health advisory to residents living near the Indian Creek tributary stream... - July 10, 2002
...has issued a precautionary health advisory to residents living near the Indian Creek tributary stream due to a broken sewer line in the general vicinity of 99th Street and Hardy Drive...
2001
- December 6, 2001
...has lifted a health advisory for Little Mill Creek... - October 31, 2001
Johnson County Wastewater crews are in the process of repairing a 21-inch sewer main at Greenwood and Hallet in the City of Lenexa after discovering a break in the line on Monday, October 29, 2001. The break resulted in a sewage discharge into Little Mill Creek. As a result... - July 3, 2001
Shawnee, Kansas–Johnson County Wastewater (JCW) crews responded quickly to clean up spilled sewage from two severed force main sewer lines near the Kansas River...