This year at WEFTEC, members of the ENTEX once again joined over a hundred young professionals from across the industry to help give back to a community in need. This was the sixth community service project organized by Young Professionals committee of WEF, and ENTEX has been there every year, for the past few years as a project donor.

The project was to add a rain garden to a a elementary school in Chicago’s inner city Chinatown to help divert a fraction of the city’s stormwater from the wastewater treatment system. We were joined by students and staff from the school in removing large sections of asphalt, weeding overgrown garden beds, and planting beneficial plant species. We got a taste of the Chinatown culture with the nearby Chinese Independence Day parade and a Chinese lunch.

Volunteering at the project were ENTEX team members Jason Bowman, Phil Beecher, James Robinson, Chuck McCall, Sarah Hubbell and Jacob Boehm.