Spartanburg Water Laboratory Services Manager honored for outstanding performance
March 29, 2018
Spartanburg Water’s Syndee Poteat recently was honored by the Water Environment Association of South Carolina’s (WEASC) top award for water quality analysis at the South Carolina Environmental Conference. The Laboratory Analyst Excellence Award recognizes individuals for outstanding performance, professionalism and contributions to their profession.
“We congratulate Syndee Poteat on this well-deserved recognition,” said John Westcott, Spartanburg Water Regulatory Compliance Manager.
Poteat is a longtime Spartanburg Water employee who began her career as a lab assistant in 1990 and is now the Laboratory Services Section Manager.
WEASC guidelines require the award recipient to be a member of its national organization, the Water Environment Federation. The honoree must be employed at an educational facility or an industrial, commercial or municipal laboratory that performs wastewater-related analysis, and must have direct analytical responsibilities.
Qualifications for the award are stringent and include outstanding efforts in wastewater and environmental aquatic analyses, including innovative sampling techniques or solutions to a treatment, analytical or environmental problem. Nominees must show involvement in community activities or public relations, give presentations at professional conferences, meetings, etc., relevant to water quality analysis, and hold professional certifications. Nominees should also have made contributions that have been beneficial to the nominee’s facility and show unusual initiative or performance “beyond the call of duty.”
ABOUT SPARTANBURG WATER: Spartanburg Water, an award-winning utility, is comprised of Spartanburg Water System and Spartanburg Sanitary Sewer District. It serves a population of more than 180,000 within Spartanburg County, as well as others in parts of Greenville, Union and Cherokee counties. With the help of its dedicated team of more than 250 employees, each day it produces an average of 25 million gallons of drinking water and cleans 12 million gallons of reclaimed water for its customers and community. For more information on Spartanburg Water’s water quality efforts, visit us at spartanburgwater.org.
