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Engineering News-Record (ENR) recently named Truckee Meadows Water Authority’s(TMWA) Glendale Water Supply Improvement Project as this year’s best project in the civil/ infrastructure category for the Southwest Region. Completed in December 2010, this project was also nominated as a finalist for the overall “project of the year” award for the ENR-Southwest Region.
“We are very proud that ENR has recognized the proactive and innovative engineering and construction that went into completing this project,” said Ron Penrose, Project Manager for TMWA. “The project represents years of hard work by stakeholders, TMWA staff, and local engineering consultants and contractors.
ENR dates back to 1874 when it is was first published under the name Engineering News. Today the weekly magazine has a subscription base of 70,000 worldwide.
The Glendale Water Supply Improvement Project was completed in 2010 and has enabled TMWA to greatly improve reliability and delivery capability to its Glendale Water Treatment Plant while improving fish and boat passage in the Truckee River. Funding for the project was provided by the State of Nevada through the Drinking Water State Revolving Loan program.
Truckee Meadows Water Authority (TMWA) is a not-for-profit water utility, overseen by elected officials from Reno, Sparks and Washoe County. TMWA employs a highly skilled team who ensure the treatment, delivery and availability of high-quality drinking water around the clock for more than 330,000 residents of the Truckee Meadows.
