NSWRD Board of Trustees Names Officers

At the December meeting of the North Shore Water Reclamation District (NSWRD), the Board of Trustees held its organizational meeting. Officers were named to lead the District for the next 2 years. Trustee Stephen J. Drew (Ward 2, North Waukegan) was named President, Trustee Rhoda A. Pierce (Ward 5, Highland Park and Highwood) was named Vice President, and B. Sugar Young (Ward 3, North Chicago, south Waukegan) was named Treasurer. Dave Miller, Executive Director of the NSWRD, will act as Deputy Treasurer, Mary Jo Bryant, as Secretary of the District, and Gregory T. Jackson, was retained as the District’s Attorney.

The NSWRD is divided into five wards. Voters choose the District’s Trustees, making the NSWRD only one of three wastewater agencies in Illinois with a Board that is directly accountable to their customers, the electorate. This governing Board is vested with full power to enact necessary rules within the boundaries of the District.

The NSWRD works to defend and preserve natural resources by ensuring the beneficial reuse of water resources. Since its inception, the District has achieved an outstanding record of protecting the health and wellbeing of residents, the environment, natural resources, and wildlife. Board members work closely with the District’s clean water professionals to consistently monitor and upgrade all Water Reclamation Facilities.

The North Shore Water Reclamation District is a municipal body dedicated to the beneficial reuse of our water resources while protecting Lake Michigan, local waterways, and the environment through sustainable and fiscally responsible wastewater reclamation practices at our facilities. The NSWRD owns and operates 3 major Water Reclamation Facilities (WRF) located in Gurnee, Waukegan, and Highland Park, Illinois, and more than 100 miles of intercepting sewer lines and 10 pumping stations which collect and convey wastewater from local sewer systems to the WRFs. Additional NSWRD facilities include the Biosolids Recycling Facility in Zion, the Administration Building and Laboratory in Gurnee, and the Maintenance Building in Waukegan. The District is the 2nd largest water reclamation district in Illinois serving more than 300,000 people in eastern Lake County. For more information about the NSWRD please visit http://www.northshorewrd.org/.