Jul 26, 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                       

Contact:  Jim Lavender, Public Works
                   (239) 479-8301                       

LEE COUNTY HIRES NEW UTILITIES DIRECTOR
 
FORT MYERS, Fla. (July 26, 2006) – Lee County announced today that Douglas Meurer has been hired as the county's Utilities Director.
 
Meurer has 30 years of experience in civil engineering projects, primarily in the private sector and in the field of water and wastewater treatment.  He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN.  He as spent most of his career in an around Denver, the last six years as a manager of water and wastewater projects for ASCG Incorporated and PARSONS.
 
Lee County Utilities currently has more than 75,500 water and 54,500 sewer accounts.  The county operates eight wastewater-treatment plants – Fort Myers Beach, Fiesta Village, Waterway Estates, Three Oaks, San Carlos, Gateway, Highpoint, and Pine Island – with a total of 16.5-million gallons of capacity per day, and seven drinking water-treatment plants – College Parkway, Corkscrew, Green Meadows, Olga, Pinewoods, Bartow, and Waterway Estates – with a combined 35-million gallons of capacity per day.  The Utilities Division has an annual operating budget of about $53.7 million and 272 employees.

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