Chris at work

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Award Chris received for being voted collection system operator of the year for the Northwest District.

Chris with his new $250,000 work truck. He's so proud of it.

Chris is a State of Idaho Class II Collections Operator with Veolia Water, for the City of
Caldwell.
What does that mean? What does he do, you ask?
Weeeeeeellllllllll, basically it means he is responsible for keeping the sewage system
working for the entire city of Caldwell.
The City of Caldwell has 140 miles of sewer system, with 4,500 manholes. This system
serves 36,000 customers.
He cleans the sewer main lines, inspects manholes, performs (sewage) line locates,
televises the lines, performs lift station (pump house) inspections and repairs, and is a
call-out / on-call operator.
In 2005, for which he won the Pacific Northwest "Operator of the Year" award, Chris
inspected 1,672 manholes, cleaned 450,714 feet of sewage lines, televised 9,560 feet on
line, and spent approximately 570 hours locating 3,791 lines.
Most recently, Chris was awarded the State of Idaho Collections Operator of the Year for
2006 AND has been promoted to Supervisor of Collections. Chris is currently
concentrating on the new computerized televising van system to start mapping the
entire city of Caldwell.

Nicole still thinks Daddy is cool, and so is the big truck.

Chris was awarded the Operator of the Year (2006) for the entire state of Idaho