Metro Water Recovery is guided by the leadership of our Chief Executive Officer and the Board of Directors, who represent 23 cities, counties, and special districts throughout the Denver metro area.
Guidance from the Board of Directors helps support our mission of protecting the region’s health and environment by cleaning water and recovering resources.
Our Responsibility to the Region
What I have always admired about Metro Water Recovery is its team-first approach. Metro brings communities of all sizes, employees and partners together to address shared challenges and leverage resources that benefit our entire region.
As our industry evolves, we must continue investing in the infrastructure, workforce and innovation needed to deliver reliable, high-quality service. We are finding new ways to create value from the resources entrusted to us while continually improving the way we operate and serve our customers. Responsible stewardship means more than maintaining today’s systems. It means making thoughtful investments that strengthen Metro’s ability to serve you all for years to come.
Metro is nationally recognized for leading the way in resource recovery, technology and innovation. Yet at the heart of everything we do is something simple: clean water. Delivering on that promise requires dedicated people, strong partnerships, and a shared sense of purpose. Our employees, communities and regional partners work together to bring that purpose to life every day.
The future of water depends on the choices we make today. As a Board, our responsibility is clear: to provide thoughtful governance, safeguard the public’s investment and ensure Metro remains a strong, resilient resource for our service area.
I invite you to explore our website, learn more about Metro and our mission and discover the people, innovation and work behind the clean water that helps sustain our communities. If you’re looking for a place to start, explore our Strategic Plan to learn more about the priorities guiding our work: https://www.metrowaterrecovery.com/about-us/strategic-plan/
I look forward to continuing this work together and I am so proud of our mission to protect the region’s health and environment by cleaning water.
Marena Lertch, Chair of the Board
Cleaning Water and Recovering Resources
The professionals at Metro Water Recovery work relentlessly to achieve our mission—to protect the region’s health and environment by cleaning water and recovering resources. As CEO, I am honored to lead a world-class staff dedicated to sustaining the high quality of life we enjoy along the Front Range. Clean water is a foundation of health and life in our region, and we are committed to tackling the never-ending challenge of managing our precious water resources.
It is also a privilege to lead this organization at this time in the organization’s history. For over a half century, we have been pioneers in sustainability. The water we receive and renew is returned to the river to replenish the watershed. It sustains river life and is used for drinking water, agriculture, and recreation. The resources we recover from the renewal process are used to grow food, power our operations, and be a source of heat for the community.
Now we face new challenges. The Front Range population is growing exponentially and the need for clean water has never been more critical. When this organization was formed, we were at the end of the water cycle; now we are at the center of the water cycle. Being leaders in the clean water industry has never been more important to the two million people we serve.
With environmental concerns increasing, telling the story of who we are as guardians of the river has never been more important. We have always had the good fortune as an organization to be able to adapt, innovate, and collaborate to ensure future generations can rely on the essential public service we provide. Now we need to elevate ourselves as thought leaders and educators on the important work we do, which is why we strategically decided to embark on a name and logo change as part of a strategic effort to increase our visibility and leverage a strong brand at the local, state, and national levels.
Even as we prepare for the future, we focus on the critical work at hand. We have the smartest, most dedicated people in the business, a Board and membership which supports and pushes us to be better, and a Strategic Plan to guide us. Together those elements work to protect our communities every minute, every day, all year long. As the CEO of Metro Water Recovery, I am honored to be a part of this critical work.
William J. “Mickey” Conway, CEO
Metro includes 65 cities and special districts, 23 of which have voting representation on the Board of Directors. We call these 23 governments Member Municipalities (listed below). Representation is based on the population within each Member Municipality, with one Director for every 75,000 or fraction thereof.
Left to Right: Janet Kieler – Secretary, Del Smith – Chair Pro Tem, Marena Lertch – Chair, Josh Redman – Treasurer
Represented by: Julie Anderson, Travis Bogan, Jolon Clark, Mary Gearhart, Janet Kieler, Peter Spanberger, Mary Beth Susman, Jennifer Williams, Ronald Younger, Vacancy
