Mary Waring Recognized with NEWEA Biosolids Management Award

Biosolids Manager Mary Waring was recently presented with the NEWEA Biosolids Management Award, recognizing her direct positive impact on the biosolids management field. This award highlights the “best of the best” of water quality professionals from within the NEWEA organization and is presented to an individual who has made significant accomplishments in the field of biosolids technology and management practices, that has been working in the field of biosolids management and utilization, and that has shown a sustained commitment to biosolids utilization.

Mary has been a biosolids manager for over 35 years. Through her role, she is responsible for permitting and compliance oversight for land application programs. She is a critical member of the permitting and compliance team at Casella’s Hawk Ridge Composting Facility in Unity Plantation, Maine. She was also instrumental in the development of Hawk Ridge’s National Biosolids Partnership Environmental Management System, a quality control system for managing and using biosolids and the first certification of its kind to be issued to a private entity. Mary has served the Maine Water Environment Association as both its President and Awards Committee chair and played a vital role in reviewing and critiquing biosolids regulation in Maine, influencing the regulations that are utilized today.