Spring 2020 Employee Newsletter

Maintenance / Operations Will Work Apart Jointly

In a restructuring effort, a newly formed Maintenance Department has been separated from and made independent of its former status functioning under the responsibility of Plant operations at Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency.

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Doug Holmes Moves Up Ladder To Management Position

It’s not just another day in the life of Doug Holmes, who recently moved to Tehachapi. Doug was also recently promoted to Assistant Operations Manager for Water Banking and Maintenance.

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Promoted: a Feather in His Baseball Cap

From Day One at the Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency Steve Olmscheid, the recently promoted Maintenance Supervisor seemed destined for a position of elevated authority. Steve, an Antelope Acres resident, has worked at AVEK for seven years, where he started as a welder/maintenance staffer in February 2013. His tasks in that position involved welding/fabrication and the repair of distribution and plant assets. Throughout that seven years,

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Dived Into QH Treatment Plant Tasks

When Aaron Martinazzi, a Santa Clarita resident, hired on at the AVEK as an Operator Trainee a little more than five months ago, on Sept. 23, 2019, he had no prior experience in the water treatment and supply industry.

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An Interest in Water Brought Him To AVEK

Knowledge of energy and water can mix as Lake Los Angeles resident Evan Carper, a new hire at AVEK, is about to learn.

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Safety at Work Netted $$$

You did it. Each one of you that adhered to rules and regulations meant to ensure a safe workplace can take a bow for helping AVEK receive a total of $89,954.55 — the largest refund of its kind the…

AVEK Kept on Top of Customer Needs Despite Virus

Easter was different this year. Everything was different this year. Antelope Valley residents, including the staff at AVEK, went to sleep one night and woke up the next morning learning the world…

Get Well Goes out to AVEK's Assistant GM

Certain people seem to have a knack for putting others instantly at ease, even at a first meeting and that is one of many abilities that colleagues, friends and acquaintances attribute to Matt Knudson…

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