If you don’t set goals and have a 10-year plan and strategy, you’re just treading water. Budgets are great. But numbers aren’t enough. You have to set goals.” So says Herbert Etheridge, manager of maintenance and construction for the Clayton County Water Authority (CCWA), based in Morrow, Ga. With the purchase of the Jonesboro and Forest Park municipal systems within its boundaries in 1994, Clayton County became one of the nation’s largest agencies responsible for all water mains, sewer mains and storm drains within county boundaries. The acquisition of these two systems, the oldest in the county, brought numerous maintenance
