The two years Mark Knudson spent at the Cowlitz County (Oregon) Water Pollution Control Plant made all the difference in his career.As CEO of the Tualatin Valley Water District, a recipient of the George Warren Fuller Award for distinguished service from the Pacific Northwest Section and the AWWA, and a former member of the AWWA board of directors, he says those early years taught him the importance of operations and maintenance, and the roles operators play in successful water management.“I’d gone to college, gotten a master’s degree, and was doing exactly what I wanted to do, designing water and wastewater
