Supplemental Agenda Items - FGUA

U.S. Water Services Corp.
Incorporated in 2003, U.S. Water Services Corp.
exists specifically to serve the Florida water and
wastewater utility service industry.
It’s the largest privately held operations and
maintenance company in the state, providing service
to 61 counties and 550 facilities, with an extended
presence in Iowa and Texas.
The company maintains two local offices within the
Florida Keys – Key Largo and Marathon, which serves
as the Keys’ dedicated state-certified environmental
laboratory facility. They provide all present and future
operational services to approximately 200 facilities
currently under contract throughout the Florida Keys.
The principals of U.S. Water have local ties, and have
provided services to the area since 1999. Because
it is designated an “area of critical state concern,”
earning intense scrutiny from state regulatory bodies,
compliant operating services in the Keys require a
high level of operator knowledge for the additional
regulations required by the Florida Department of
Environmental Protection.
• North Plantation Key Advanced Wastewater
Treatment Plant – Islamorada
Provides contract operations and maintenance
services using an advanced wastewater
treatment process to achieve very low effluent
discharges of various nutrients like nitrogen and
phosphorus. Also manages the conditioning,
hauling and disposal of residual sludge, using
the company’s own 5,000-gallon vacuum trucks
to haul and dispose of liquid sludge from the
Plantation Key facility.
• Little Venice Wastewater Treatment Facility –
Marathon, Fla.
After first becoming involved with this facility
in 2005 analyzing its condition and operating
status, U.S. Water took over in 2008. Has since
Key Personnel
Gary Deremer,
President,
Operations and
Technical Director
David B. Schultz
Sr., Senior VP/Asset
Management
Victoria Penick,
Senior VP/Finance &
Administration
Lee Penick,
Project Director,
WWTFs and Vacuum
Systems
Chris Jones,
Dedicated Keys Chief
Operator
Ron Derossett,
Upper Keys Area
Manager/Islamorada
Support as Keys
Chief Operator
Mohammed Kader,
VP/Engineering
Melisa Rotteveel,
Compliance Manager
G.J. Thabaraj, Ph.D.,
Environmental
Specialist
Full bios located in
Appendix A
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