West View Water Authority’s Joseph A. Berkley Treatment Plant has been selected to receive a prestigious Area Wide Optimization Program (AWOP) Award for the third consecutive year.

AWOP is a national filter plant optimization effort among multiple states, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators (ASDWA) and water plants. AWOP recognizes outstanding efforts toward optimizing filter plant turbidity performance with a prestigious AWOP Award. The top performing filter plants who submitted their 2014 WebOAS turbidity data received an AWOP Award. The top large filter plants (serving > 10,000 people) were presented the AWOAP Award at the Water Works Operators’ Association of Pennsylvania (WWOAP) conference. West View Water Treatment Plant was one of the 21 plants selected to receive this award and hopes to keep the tradition going and be eligible for next year’s award!