San Elijo water campus receives award
The San Elijo Joint Powers Authority recently received a prestigious “Plant of the Year” award from the California Water Environment Association for its Water Campus on Manchester Avenue. San Elijo won the recognition first at the regional level before being named top among medium-sized wastewater agencies throughout California. The Plant of the Year award recognizes accomplishments in compliance, innovative practices, cost effectiveness and superior plant performance. San Elijo earned the award for its commitment to renovating aging infrastructure, working with San Diego State University and using student research, prioritizing staff development, and integrating computer modeling into daily operations. San Elijo serves Encinitas, Solana Beach, Del Mar and parts of Rancho Santa Fe. The plant can process more than 5 million gallons of wastewater and stormwater daily. The agency also produces recycled water for industrial uses and irrigation a
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Dream comes true for late-in-life grad
By Pam Kragen - The San Diego Union-Tribune
Zsuzsanna Dianovics of Del Mar, California, has been named the Dean’s Outstanding Graduate for the College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at Cal State San Marcos with a computer science degree in cybersecurity.
SAN DIEGO – Zsuzsanna Dianovics was 7 years old when her family moved to the U.S. from Hungary. From an early age, she remembers her mom insisting that one day Zsuzsanna would make the family proud as a first-generation college student.
But when Dianovics was attending university in Illinois in the mid-’90s, she got pregnant and was forced to drop out of college at age 21. Four years later, she was a single mom with two children and was bartending and waiting tables to support her young family. She never gave up on college, but it became a dream that would have to wait.