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Man with a Clean Water Mission !

Bob Johnson's world revolves around clean water. His life long interest in sailing takes him to the sea, where he sails a vessel he built himself and studies celestial navigation. His trimaran, "Halleulujah", has a home port in Rockland, Maine, and he sails Maine's coastal waters regularly.

As president of Walden Inc. and Wastewater Services Corp., Bob devotes his time and energy to ensuring that clean water will continue to be a fact of life. His practical background in electric distribution systems, wastewater treatment, and pump technology finds an outlet in the firms he's built to serve the increasingly complex needs of small flow package treatment plant customers.

Bob attended Northeastern University and served in the U.S. Navy where he was an electrician. His responsibilities included maintaining motors, generators, distribution systems and implementing planned maintenance systems. While in the Navy he also trained Naval Reserve personnel. After leaving the military service Bob worked in a variety of industrial settings. At Mathewson Machine Works, a manufacturer of bow thrusters and stern drives for ships and oil rigs, he was maintenance foreman and supervised crews of tradesmen responsible for installation, troubleshooting and repair of metal working machinery included first generation CNC. His major projects include upgrading electrical distribution systems and rebuilding of a crane and wharf facility and barge used for testing equipment.

Bob was Maintenance Supervisor for a plastics company responsible for maintaining production lines and plant facilities including water treatment systems. For the well-known cosmetics company, Redken Labs, he was responsible for maintaining high speed cosmetics packaging machinery and process systems.

When Bob moved to Maine he became part of the Boise Cascade Expansion and was involved in all aspects of major plant expansion work. While at Boise Cascade he also ran an electrical apprentice program for people new to the industry.

An opportunity to move closer to the coast led Bob to his position at Kennebec Sanitary Treatment District in Central Maine, where he was maintenance Supervisor and responsible for all trades involved in maintaining process equipment, pump stations and infrastructure of a 12 million gallon per day wastewater treatment plant. He implemented energy conservation measures and planned maintenance systems and learned more about the need for individual package treatment plants.

Bob formed Wastewater Services Corp. and became its president. As a contract operation and maintenance firm for package wastewater treatment plants the company became the largest in the state, responsible for 450 accounts varying from single and multi family units, to commercial, governmental and industrial sites. The company provides sales and installation, laboratory services, licence renewal and negotiation services. As president of Wastewater Services Corp.., Bob has travelled internationally as a sub-contracted expert for well-known package plant manufacturers.

Eventually Bob's drive to improve the equipment he worked with led him to look at small flow package treatment plants from a new angle. In consultation with several programming and design experts he sought ways to improve the operating and maintenance efficiency of sequencing batch reactor (SBR) technology package treatment plants he's been working with to the small flows package treatment plant market. As president of Walden, Inc. Bob has developed a unique PLC program to control the daily, weekly and monthly operation of SBR's. This PLC program, when combined with the proprietary Walden floating decant system (also a Bob Johnson innovation) makes Walden, Inc. package treatment plants second to none in the small to medium flow markets.

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