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DWIGHT FOX METZLER
Pages 146-153

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From page 146...
... Final Tribute Vol 13.indd 146 3/23/10 3:42:21 PM
From page 147...
... He was a sanitary engineer, chief engineer for the Kansas State Board of Health, executive secretary for the Kansas Water Board, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, and chief of water systems development in the state of Kansas. He was also professor of sanitary engineering at the University of Kansas.
From page 148...
... In 1947, he gained admission to Harvard University to study sanitary engineering under Professor Gordon Fair. The Sanitary Engineering Program at Harvard was closely associated with the School of Public Health, and its students received a broad public health education, rather than the engineering-design approach offered at other graduate schools.
From page 149...
... The water shortage required that 169 communities restrict their water consumption, which adversely affected about 600,000 people. When the Neosho River, the source of water for one Kansas town, Chanute, dried up completely in 1956, the city constructed a temporary dam downstream, below the wastewater treatment plant, to capture wastewater effluent.
From page 150...
... His national exposure caught the attention of Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York, who, in 1966, persuaded Dwight to leave Kansas and come to New York as deputy commissioner of public health to help develop a large water resources project. The governor put Dwight in charge of the $1.7 billion Clean Waters Program in New York state -- quite a jump from Kansas.
From page 151...
... Dwight Metzler was active in many professional organizations: the American Public Health Association, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Water Works Association, Kansas Engineering Society, Royal Society of Health (in Great Britain) , Kansas Public Health Association, and the Kansas Water Pollution Control Association.
From page 152...
... Dwight Metzler was a public health engineer of the first order, who raised the traditions of Dr. William Thompson Sedgwick of Massachusetts and Dr.
From page 153...
... Final Tribute Vol 13.indd 153 3/23/10 3:42:22 PM


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