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Gazette.M...ai. Metro Putnam • August 29} 2007
Scott Depot man
gets EPA award for · water-quality work
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has presented John Inghram of Scott Depot with the EPA Mid-Atlantic Region's award for excellence in operating a drinlting water
system.
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operates. ,the drinking water treatment · facU~ty fOf the Putnam Public SeIVice District in Putnam County. . " .'. "Public ,drinking water · plant operators like John Inghram are our first line of ," ~ defense against waterborne , diseases and contamination that can' cause serious. " even fatal, illnesses, II said • Donald S. Welsh, adminis-'; . trator for. EPA's mid-'; Atlantic region~ ., He s~d throUgh Inghram's leadership, the Putnam sys.Inghram
tem was ranked as one of the
top 10 systems in West Virginia for achieving' area-wide optimization program goals set by the state. · improved the quaHty' and taste of drinking water, according to the EPA.
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His contributions have •
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Inghrat'l has also assisted
area water plants with seclu1ty improvements and · proYided new. equipment
training to staff from ttle
· West Virginia Bureau of
Public Health.
He was nominated for the · award by the Wellt Virginia
Department of Health and
Human Resources.