NEWS RELEASE

July 12, 2007

On Monday night, July 9th, Alan E. Rimer took the oath of office as a member of the OWASA Board of Directors.  He is an appointee of the Chapel Hill Town Council.

Mr. Rimer, who served as a member, secretary, and vice-chair of the OWASA Board from July, 1995 to June, 2002, is a registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) in North Carolina and four other states. He holds a Diplomate in Environmental Engineering (D.E.E.).

Alan has 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 nonpoint 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 Black & Veatch, where he is now the Director of Water Reuse. He is also 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 the immediate past chair of the Orange County Board of Health and he currently chairs 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. He is pursuing a doctorate in Environmental Engineering from Duke University/ Kennedy Western University.

Alan is married to Linda Rimer, an official with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and has a son, Chris and daughter, Wendy, both of whom are married and live in San Francisco, CA.

Mr. Rimer’s hobbies include bicycling, traveling, reading, gardening and woodworking.

For more information:

Alan E. Rimer, OWASA Board Member