Aqua America Names Colleen Arnold Deputy Chief Operating Officer
September 15 2015 - 9:31AM
Business Wire
Aqua America, Inc. (NYSE: WTR) President and CEO Christopher
Franklin today announced the promotion of Colleen Arnold to the
position of deputy COO from manager of water quality and
environmental compliance.
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Colleen Arnold has been promoted to
deputy chief operating officer for Aqua America. (Photo: Business
Wire)
As deputy COO, Arnold will report directly to Chief Operating
Officer (COO) Rick Fox and assist him in the management of all of
the company’ regulated operations including network distribution,
production, engineering water quality and environmental compliance
throughout all eight states.
“Colleen brings a great blend of traditional operations
management experience coupled with an extraordinary background and
education in water quality, which is the primary focus of what we
do,” said Franklin. “Whether we are delivering tap water to our
customers or returning treated wastewater to the environment, the
bottom line of it all is quality.”
“Colleen has more than 20 years of experience in environmental
engineering and is uniquely qualified for this new role at Aqua. In
addition to her years at Aqua, she also worked as a utility
director for a municipal system and as a consultant with two
top-tier firms, always with a focus on water and wastewater
operations,” said COO Rick Fox. “On top of the routine
responsibilities of her previous management positions, Colleen
organized and oversaw Aqua’s Compliance Assurance Program, to
ensure compliance with environmental regulations, and permits for
all Aqua operations and established an asset management framework
and implementation of a work order management system for the City
of Wilmington's water distribution network. I look forward to her
leadership and expertise in guiding our utility operations.”
Arnold joined Aqua first in 2007 as manager of treatment and
water quality at Aqua Pennsylvania following nine years of varied
experience working for consulting firms, for which she provide
services to water and wastewater utilities in New York City,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Arizona. She left the company in
2009 to accept the position of assistant director of the City of
Wilmington’s (Delaware) water division, and returned to Aqua
America in 2013 in her most recent position of manager of water
quality and environmental compliance.
Arnold, a licensed professional engineer in Delaware, earned her
B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Massachusetts and
her M.S. in environmental engineering from Manhattan College. Her
professional memberships include the American Water Works
Association for which she is chairman and trustee for its
Distribution and Plant Operations Division; the American Water
Resources Association and the Water Environment Federation. Her
honors include being the 1998 Thomas R. Camp Scholarship Winner;
the 1993 Stearns & Wheeler Environmental Engineering &
Science Award; membership in the Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering
National Honor Society and the Tau Beta Pi Engineering National
Honor Society; and being named Outstanding Women Engineer of the
Year 1992 by the Society of Women Engineers
Aqua America is one of the largest U.S.-based, publicly traded
water utilities and serves nearly 3 million people in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, North Carolina, Illinois, Texas, New Jersey, Indiana and
Virginia. Aqua America is listed on the New York Stock Exchange
under the ticker symbol WTR. Visit AquaAmerica.com for more
information.
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