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Grogg honored for 35 years of service with LLSWD
By BiJay Adams LLSWD General Manager Recently the Liberty Lake Sewer and Water District (LLSWD) completed a $17.2 million upgrade to our Water Reclamation Facility. This upgrade included advanced tertiary treatment through chemical addition and membrane filtration. The improved treatment further reduces our phosphorous discharge by greater than 99 percent. Prior to this upgrade, the district was one of the first dischargers in the region to upgrade their facility to achieve enhanced phosphorous removal from its discharge to the river. In 2006, LLSWD invested $11.6 million to convert the facility from an extended aeration process to a biological nutrient removal treatment process – a huge change in process and operation. Who is behind the scenes to assure that our facility is operating at its best and our wastewater is cleaned to the highest degree possible? The district has highly trained and certified personnel that make this possible, in particular, the district’s Water Reclamation Facility Chief Operator Dan Grogg. He began working at LLSWD on March 21, 1983, meaning Grogg is the longest tenured employee in district history. Dan started working at the Water Reclamation Facility when the site had only been in operation for a little over a year. Dan has always maintained the highest level of technological expertise even while the district was investing millions of dollars in advancements in treatment technologies. The district discharges its treated effluent to the Spokane River through a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit governed by the
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Washington state Department of Ecology and the Environmental Protection Agency. Dan has consistently operated the facility without any major violations to the district’s NPDES permit. These accomplishments have earned Dan and the facility the following awards: • Wastewater Treatment Plant Outstanding Performance Award a total of six times (1997, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015 and likely 2017) • Wastewater Treatment Plant Innovation Solutions Recognition award (2006) • Three consecutive years of Wastewater Treatment Plant Outstanding Performance Award • Most notably as an individual honor, Dan was awarded the Operator of the Year award by the Pacific Northwest Clean Water Association (2010) Recently Dan celebrated his 35th anniversary with the district and the LLSWD Board of Commissioners recognized this accomplishment by passing Resolution 04-18 on May 14. All of us at the Liberty Lake Sewer and Water District and the entire community we serve, have an incalculable debt of gratitude owing Dan Grogg and his staff Darrell Gamble and Greg Sattler for their commitment to the highest standards of community service and wastewater treatment.
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Dan Grogg was recently honored by the Liberty Lake Sewer and Water District for 35 years with the utility. Grogg serves as chief operator for the district's Water Reclamation Facility. In 2010, he earned the distinction of being named Operator of the Year by the Pacific Northwest Clean Water Association. Contributed photo
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Pho Liberty
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Razor Edge Simonds Dental Group
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Service Directory
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