ORANGE WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY

A public, non-profit agency providing water, sewer and reclaimed water services

to the Carrboro-Chapel Hill community.

NEWS RELEASE July 23, 2012

Alan E. Rimer, P.E., elected Chair of the OWASA Board of Directors

Alan E, Rimer, P.E., who has served on the OWASA Board from 1995 to 2002 and from July, 2007 to the present, was recently elected Chair of the OWASA Board.

Mr. Rimer is a registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) in North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia and Puerto Rico. He holds a Diplomate in Environmental Engineering (D.E.E.). from the American Academy of Environmental Engineering.

Alan has more than 40 years of professional experience in planning, design, management and financial evaluation of projects in water resources, water reuse, wastewater, solid waste and other environmental studies for public agencies and private industries in the United States, Asia, Europe and South America.

Alan’s water resource work has included water supply and non-point pollution control planning studies, water treatment and distribution system design, rate studies and water conservation and reuse studies. His experience in wastewater treatment and reuse has ranged from master planning and system evaluations to the design of wastewater treatment facilities. This has included joint municipal/industrial facilities and the first U.S. industrial reuse application of microstraining and ion exchange for industrial wastewater recycling/reuse. He has also performed environmental cost accounting, due diligence studies and environmental auditing for governmental and corporate entities.

Since 1997, Mr. Rimer has held senior positions with the international consulting firm of Black & Veatch, where he is now the Director of Water Reuse. He recently completed service as an adjunct member of the faculties of the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.

Mr. Rimer has served on the Chapel Hill Town Council. He is a past chair of the Orange County Board of Health and is the founding chair of the Town of Chapel Hill’s Stormwater Advisory Board. He has served as a Trustee of the Chapel Hill Museum and on Chapel Hill’s Planning Board, Comprehensive Planning Task Force, Technology Committee and Solid Waste Task Force, among others; and has been appointed to a number of North Carolina boards and commissions and served on appointed U.S. Senate and White House Committees under the administrations of both political parties.

He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Duke University, and a Master of Science degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of North Carolina. His work on a doctorate in Environmental Engineering from Duke University/ Kennedy Western University focused on dual distribution systems for reclaimed water.

Alan is married to Linda Rimer, an official with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Rimer’s hobbies include bicycling, traveling, reading, gardening and woodworking.

For more information
Alan E. Rimer,arimer@owasa.orgor919-929-7076

For a photo, please clickhere.

400 Jones Ferry Road, Carrboro, NC 27510 919-968-4421 www.owasa.orginfo@owasa.org

 

 

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