August 20, 2024
Dr. Tanja Rauch-Williams – Metro Water Recovery
Out of Sight, Out of Mind:
A Fascinating Journey through 50 years of Sanitary Water Treatment Sustaining the Livelihood of the Front Range and the City of Golden.
Featured Brewery: Westbound and Down Brewing Company
Introduction by: Whitney Painter
Sanitary wastewater treatment is not given much thought in our daily lives. However, it is an essential pillar for sustaining the high quality of aquatic and human health in our City and State.
This presentation will take the audience through a journey of more than five decades of sanitary water treatment with examples from Colorado and our City, and highlighting today’s engineering opportunities and challenges that will make you think differently about the value of “waste”water.
Tanja will be joined in her presentation by Brian Tracy, Deputy Director Public Works for City of Golden and Mark Koch, Environmental for Molson Coors.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Tanja Rauch-Williams, Metro Water Recovery
Tanja is an Environmental Engineer who received her PhD from Colorado School of Mines in 2005. As a student she sampled wastewater from treatment plants in Boulder and Golden for research projects, and this passion has never left her.
She has worked for over 20 years with municipalities across the country on water, reuse, and wastewater infrastructure projects and has conducted various national and international research projects.
Since August 2023 she has served as the Chief Innovation Officer for Metro Water Recovery, the wholesale wastewater provider in Denver. She has lived with her family in Golden since 2001 and served several years on the City’s Sustainability Board. When not working, you may find her in South Golden Road’s Hockey Stop Park in the evenings playing Roller Hockey.
Also featuring Brian Tracy, City of Golden Deputy Director of Public Works and Mark Koch, Molson Coors Sustainability and Environment Director.
How This Works
The Buffalo Rose will open at 6:00 p.m. Food and drink service will begin at 6:00 p.m. and the program will begin around 6:30 p.m. Following the presentation, we’ll take a brief intermission for Q + A. We’ll wrap up around 7:45 p.m., but people interested in staying a bit longer to socialize will be able to do so. There is no cover charge and no purchase is necessary.
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