Ed Gonzalez, Executive Director of the Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center (PPRC), the hosting agency for Western States Alliance. Ed has more than 20 years of experience working in the environmental and health fields, managing programs and projects in Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska. Ed has developed many training curriculums. His projects include providing access to potable water and health care for impoverished families in Juarez, Mexico.
Clayton Brown, a principal PPRC FOG trainer, is WSA Program Manager, and the former Source Control Manager for Clean Water Services (CWS), a sanitary sewer and surface water management public utility district serving over 560,000 customers in Washington County, Oregon. He was responsible for Industrial Wastewater Pretreatment, Industrial Stormwater, Pollution Prevention, and water quality investigations. Clayton coordinates with partners such as the Oregon Association of Clean Water Agencies (OR CWA), CWS, Southeast FOG Alliance, the Region 8 Pretreatment Association, and others to leverage everyone’s knowledge and strengths to continually improve services.
Ken Grimm, a principal PPRC FOG trainer, is PPRC Industry Outreach Manager with 18 years’ experience serving in different training and technical roles, including national trainer for FOG abatement and for spray paint efficiency. Ken also trains on measurement system development. Ken provides web services and maintenance for PPRC and WSA websites and contributes articles to the newsletter.
Jean Waters, a PPRC FOG trainer, is a PPRC Project Manager with more than 20 years’ experience in pollution prevention technical assistance and training in multiple sectors, developing national, online resources, creating partnerships, and measuring outcomes.
Ken Loucks, a principal PPRC FOG trainer, is a FOG Industry Consultant, affectionately known as the Interceptor Whisperer. Ken understands grease interceptors and has spent more than a decade learning how they work, how they have evolved over time, and how to effectively manage them in pretreatment and FOG control programs. Ken is a nationally known trainer in FOG abatement.
Patrick Bryan, a PPRC FOG trainer, is a PPRC Technical Program Manager with extensive experience serving as a wastewater and stormwater inspector from the City of Fresno, California. Patrick understands and can help alleviate the disconnect that so often occurs between a Food Service Establishment and inspectors.
Ed Gilmore, a principal PPRC FOG trainer, is a PPRC Program Manager with 20 years’ experience in industrial pretreatment, stormwater and pollution prevention programs with Water Environment Services of Clackamas County, Oregon, and the City of Portland. He developed and implemented the FOG program for the sewer district and assisted in FOG program development across the Portland metro area. Ed has a unique perspective due to his career that includes owning a food service establishment (FSE) and being a FOG inspector.