Clemson emeritus professor to receive lifetime award from environmental group

Published: September 28, 2010

CLEMSON — C.P. Leslie Grady Jr., a Clemson University emeritus professor of environmental engineering and Earth sciences, has been selected to receive the prestigious Industrial Water Quality Lifetime Achievement Award from the Water Environment Federation, an international technical and educational water quality organization with 36,000 members.

The award, to be presented in October at the organization's 83rd annual conference in New Orleans, is given to an individual who has made "substantial and measurable engineering, scientific, and/or operations contributions to the management or treatment of industrial wastes related to the improvement of water quality."

Grady is being recognized for his research on the fate of synthetic organic chemicals in wastewater treatment systems. The award also cites his sharing of his knowledge with the broader water quality community through his co-authorship of the widely used textbook, Biological Wastewater Treatment.  

"This is a significant honor reflecting a very significant career," said Tanju Karnfil, chairman of Clemson's environmental engineering and Earth sciences department. "We at Clemson are both proud and pleased of Leslie's award and of his contributions to this field."

Grady began his research at Purdue University from 1968 to 1981 and continued it at Clemson from 1981 to 2003. His design activities were with teams at the Charlotte office of CH2M Hill, where he was a Technology Fellow.

Grady will be honored during WEFTEC 2010, the largest water quality event in North America and largest annual water quality exhibition in the world. Thousands of the world's leading water quality experts and a thousand exhibitors at the Oct. 3-6 meeting.

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