Approximately 75 volunteers – including four Black & Veatch professionals – took part on Saturday, 15 October, in the Walkway to Wetlands project in conjunction with the kickoff of the Water Environment Federation’s 84^th Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC).

The fourth annual project, organized by the Water Environment Federation (WEF)’s Students and Young Professionals Committee, helped to revitalize a former industrial area and provided a grand entrance to the city of Los Angeles’s wetlands project located directly across the street from a brand new high school. The volunteers planted 37 trees along the perimeter of a constructed wetland located in the previously underserved neighborhood just south of the Los Angeles Convention Center.

The volunteers included Black & Veatch professionals Jim Clark, Matt Bond, Heather Cheslek and outgoing SYPC Committee Chair Bob Wimmer. Clark is a past president of WEF, and Bond took the gavel as current WEF President at WEFTEC 2011. Black & Veatch is also a sponsor of the project.