Ms. Robin E. Bain is the Environmental Resources Manager for the City of Peoria, Arizona. She serves as the technical expert and advisor to the city’s executive management on drinking water, wastewater, pretreatment, stormwater and air quality compliance, water resource management, water rates, and regional water-related programs. She also manages the city’s water portfolio and has been responsible for receiving and managing $2.2 million in grants from the Bureau of Reclamation for beneficial reuse of reclaimed water. Ms. Bain oversees USEPA, state and local permitting, and day-to-day compliance activities for water, wastewater, air, stormwater, biosolids, pretreatment, and solid waste recycling, including state-certified laboratory.

Ms. Bain holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering, both from Virginia Tech. Following graduation, she worked for Fairfax County Department of Public Works for ten years. As the Deputy Public Works Director and Wastewater Treatment Division Director for the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, she innovated, planned, directed, and managed a non-traditional approach to meeting the then-new dechlorination requirements by using sodium hypochlorite and sodium bisulfite, versus gaseous chlorine and sulfur dioxide, reducing capital costs by almost $4 million, substantially reducing operations and management costs, and significantly reducing the safety risks to the plant staff and the surrounding neighborhood.

As the Director of the Wastewater Treatment Division for the Clark County Water Reclamation District in Las Vegas, Nevada, she directed and managed two major process optimizations, replacing lime for phosphorus removal with ferric chloride. She also created biological phosphorus removal with virtually no capital expenditures, which saved the district $3 million annually. These projects were recognized by the district’s board due to the coordination required among operations and technical services staff, and to the enormous cost savings which represented a 20% reduction in operations and management costs.
Prior to her current position, she was the Office Manager at Michael Baker, Jr. Corporation in Phoenix, where she oversaw an 80 person multi-disciplinary engineering consulting office including civil, environmental, water resources, traffic, transportation, architecture, GIS, human resources, administration, and marketing.

She is an active member of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Water Works Association, among other local and state water and public works organizations. She was awarded Person of the Year by the WateReuse Association in 2012 and the Environmental Stewardship Award by the AzWater Association in 2014.

Ms. Bain and her husband, Doug, have resided in Phoenix, Arizona for 15 years. They have two children, Arron and Niko, as well as two grandchildren, Natalia and Austyn. She enjoys watching Hokie football, playing golf, and hiking.