South Carolina’s Powdersville Water District was the first water utility in the state — and only the 11th in the nation — to receive the prized Directors Award in the Partnership for Safe Water Distribution System Optimization Program. And if you ask Operations and Maintenance Superintendent Chris Rasco, it’s all due to the people.“You have to have 100 percent buy-in from your staff in order to be successful,” Rasco says. “In our case, we’re all in.”Using monthly meetings that can last up to three hours, a cross-cut of employees from various departments at PWD discuss goals and agree on projects
