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Wood was one of the first people to qualify for the Professional Operator through the Certification Commission for Environmental Professionals.
Christen Wood was an accident waiting to happen — in a good way.
A chance encounter with the local newspaper led Wood to the Ashtabula (Ohio) Wastewater Treatment Plant, which hired her as a laboratory analyst in 2009. Then she accidentally moved from the laboratory to operations...