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Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Installs

New Members of the Board of Commissioners

The Board of Commissioners of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago will hold its Annual Meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, December 5, 2006, at 2:00 p.m. in the Board Room at 100 E. Erie Street in Chicago. At the meeting, the President of the Board of Commissioners, Terrence J. O’Brien, will be sworn in to begin his fourth six-year term on the Board. Two newly-elected members, Patricia Horton and Debra Shore, will begin their first terms in office. The meeting is open to the public and to members of the news media.

Ms. Horton is currently vice president of the Madison Western Chamber of Commerce and executive director of the West Side Business Group in Chicago. She has also worked with the Rogers Park Chamber of Commerce and the Women’s Self-Employment Project. Ms. Horton holds degrees from North Park University and Truman College.

Ms. Shore served as director of development for Chicago Wilderness, a consortium devoted to the conservation of biodiversity in the Chicago Region. She also worked as the founding editor and writer of Chicago WILDERNESS, a quarterly magazine. She has degrees from Columbia College, Johns Hopkins University and Goucher College.

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago collects and treats the wastewater from more than five million people and the industrial equivalent of another 4.5 million people in Cook County each day. The District also operates the Deep Tunnel Project to collect and treat sewer overflows, and provides stormwater management for all of Cook County. The District’s 2007 tentative budget is $940.7 million.