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Jack Dillon, Director of Environmental Services, stated "I am extremely proud of our <br /> Wastewater Treatment Plant Team. These awards acknowledge the professionalism of our staff, <br /> as they go about the task of safeguarding the city's water, while preserving the St. Joseph River <br /> as the important community asset that it is." <br /> Last year, South Bend celebrated the Wastewater Treatment Plant's fifty years of <br /> operation, since it's inception in 1956, and was also the host site of the Challenge competition <br /> tournament, placing third in the overall competition. Since the 1990's, over $87 million has been <br /> invested in the Wastewater Treatment Plant and last year the city launched a 10-year, Clean <br /> River-Healthy Neighborhoods Plan that will eliminate chronic sewage backups into basements <br /> and continue to improve sewage collection and treatment capabilities. The 10-year plan will also <br /> reduce raw sewage overflow volume by 38 percent in atypical year. <br /> The Plant treated a total of 11.559 billion gallons of wastewater in 2006, which converts <br /> to an average daily flow of 31.67 million gallons per day, meeting the permit conditions and <br /> water quality standards of the new National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, which then <br /> allows the Plant to discharge treated wastewater into the St. Joseph River. <br /> Additionally, Jill Norton and Michelle Smith, both chemists with the Environmental <br /> Services Laboratory Team obtained their Class IV and D wastewater certifications, the highest <br /> certifications offered in Indiana. <br /> -30- <br />