Cobb water system earns honors

Cobb County’s water system won two awards from the Georgia Association of Water Professionals. The water protection division won the 2012 Wastewater Collection Gold award for outstanding operation of a wastewater collection system with more than 50,000 customers. The county’s “ecological tips” video series won the 2012 Public Education Innovative Initiative award.

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