Awards and Recognition

LCA Recognized for Financial Reporting, Water Treatment Optimization
March 7, 2025LCA employees’ hard work is paying off! Two awards have been presented to LCA for excellence in water treatment and financial management — the Area Wide Optimization Program (AWOP) Award and the Excellence in Financial Reporting Award. “Congratulations to our employees on these prestigious awards,” said CEO Liesel Gross. “Your dedication and service is so important…

LCA Proud to Announce Two Awards!
May 22, 2024It’s been an exciting spring here at LCA, with the announcement of two awards presented to our hardworking crew. First, congratulations are due to our dedicated Water Filtration Plant team for receiving the Area Wide Optimization Program (AWOP) Award for the 17th year in a row! The award is presented to participants that meet the…

LCA Recognized With Two PMAA Awards
October 13, 2023We’re thrilled to announce that Lehigh County Authority was recognized with two accolades at the Pennsylvania Municipal Authority Association’s 81st Annual Conference & Awards, held at Kalahari Resorts and Convention Center in the Poconos on Sept. 18. The first, the 2023 Municipal Authority Communications Award, honors our communications and community engagement work, including projects like our Interactive Map-…

LCA Honored With Two Awards
June 22, 2023LCA is thrilled to announce two recent awards! George Warren Fuller Award Our CEO, Liesel Gross, was recognized in May with the prestigious George Warren Fuller Award at The Pennsylvania Section of the American Water Works Association’s spring conference. The Fuller Award is presented annually in each AWWA section to a member selected for distinguished…

LCA Honored With 6th ‘Excellence in Financial Reporting’ Award
April 6, 2021Lehigh County Authority and its Chief Financial Officer Edward Klein were recently honored with an award for Excellence in Financial Reporting. The award — LCA’s 6th in a row — is presented by the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) of the United States and Canada. The award recognizes Klein and LCA for 2019’s comprehensive annual financial report….
LCA Honored With Multiple Water Treatment Awards
November 20, 2020We’re thrilled to announce that LCA and our employees have been recognized with multiple water treatment awards this month. On Friday, Nov. 20, the Eastern Pennsylvania Water Pollution Control Operators Association presented three awards during its virtual, annual meeting: Plant Operation and Maintenance Excellence Award – Greater than 2 MGD*: This award recognizes our wastewater treatment…

LCA Recognized for Watershed Stewardship, Sustainability
October 2, 2020Lehigh County Authority is one of just 65 water utilities across the country to be recognized for watershed stewardship and resource recovery by the Utility of the Future Today program. The “Utility of the Future Today recognition program celebrates the achievements of water utilities that transform from a traditional wastewater treatment system to a resource…