Four Rivers Sanitation Authority

Four Rivers Sanitation Authority Protecting our regions’ precious watersheds now and for future generations

From our FRSA family to yours, we are wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and prosperous New Year! 🙂
12/22/2024

From our FRSA family to yours, we are wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and prosperous New Year! 🙂

Thursday 12/5/2024, we’ve finally arrived at the end of a long journey to relocate the Household Hazardous Waste Site to...
12/06/2024

Thursday 12/5/2024, we’ve finally arrived at the end of a long journey to relocate the Household Hazardous Waste Site to this new location. There were many obstacles along the way in order to get this project finished. It took almost nine years to complete, and our Four Rivers staff worked diligently with the City of Rockford staff, along with the IEPA, to make it all happen! There were a lot of moving parts!

There are many people to recognize that were part of this endeavor. First, I want to thank Chairman Chiarelli, Mayor McNamara and City Administrator Todd Cagnoni, along with the County Board and City Council for all their support! I also want to thank our Trustees Rick Pollack, Ben Bernsten, Elmer Jones, Ginger Haas and Richard Mowris for their support on this project.

To our Four Rivers staff, I want to recognize our folks from Engineering for the planning that went on with this project. Especially our Construction Engineer Lee Aschim, along with our Director of Engineering Chris Baer. With their expertise, they designed this location and worked with the City’s Public Works department to engineer a functional location. Lee also has worked with Rob Wilhelmi from the city and the contractor Clean Harbors to gain their input to make this location much better than the previous spot.

I want to thank our Director of Collection System’s Jim Reader and his group for building this site. By doing this, we saved a lot of money for doing the construction in-house! We have done this many times over the years to ensure we keep our cost as low as possible.

This construction at this location was supervised by Brian Markgraf and Kurt Hauser, our Construction and Maintenance Division Managers through their foremen Noah Smith, Warren Fischer and their crews between their regular jobs!

A special thank you to Randy McRae, who managed the entire project to what you see today! Randy was our master carpenter, who recently retired. Randy has rebuilt every building on our plant at least once, if not more over 36 years of service. He was told he couldn’t retire till this project was done. He finished a month early! We thank him for his years of service!

I would have to say, this project was a total team effort between Four Rivers and the City of Rockford! When you see government agencies working together, it is good for our community and it keeps our costs low! This is a win-win for everyone!

The public will find it better access and easier to maneuver into! Hours are Saturday 8:00 am to 4:00 pm and Sunday Noon to 4:00 pm. New location is at 3315 Kishwaukee! NW corner of Martin road and Kishwaukee. It is now open for business! 🙂

From our Four Rivers family to yours, wishing all of our community a very Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃
11/28/2024

From our Four Rivers family to yours, wishing all of our community a very Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃

Happy Veteran’s Day! It is my honor and privilege to recognize some of our veterans that work at FRSA! First picture: Ri...
11/10/2024

Happy Veteran’s Day!

It is my honor and privilege to recognize some of our veterans that work at FRSA!

First picture: Rick Pollack is our Board President! He served from 1965-1969 during the Vietnam era! He was a 2nd class Petty Officer! Thank you for your service!

Second picture: Sandy Shurmack! She is our Network Administrator! Thank you for your service!

Third picture: Brian Graceffa is our Maintenance Electrician! He served in the USMC as LCPL Graceffa! Thank you for your service!

Fourth picture: Catherine Krumwiede! She is our Lab Analyst! She was a Corpsman in the Navy from 2008-2012. Her rank was a E-4 and her title was HM3 Rosenbury! Thank you for your service!

Fifth picture: Daniel Poland! He is our Maintenance Mechanic! He was a Senior Airman of the Air Force! Thank you for your service!

Sixth & Seventh picture: Brian Markgraf! He is our Collection Systems Construction Division Manager! He served in the US Army from 1981-1984! His rank was an E-4 Specialist! Thank you for your service!

We couldn’t be more proud of our employees and their time served in our military branches! Thank you all and Happy Veterans Day to you! 🙂

Today, FRSA had a booth at the Day of the dead event at the Sports Factory that was organized by Domingo’s en el Parque....
10/27/2024

Today, FRSA had a booth at the Day of the dead event at the Sports Factory that was organized by Domingo’s en el Parque.

We had coffee and gave information to all on our move from quarterly billing to monthly.

I want to thank our team that included Nora Jaime, Alex Mandujano, Karina Bushnell and our Director of Management Services Julia Scott-Valdez for taking time out of their weekend to staff our booth to educate our customers on services that will help the community!

Today, it was bittersweet to see one of our FRSA family members retire after 36 years of service! Randy McRae, who is an...
10/25/2024

Today, it was bittersweet to see one of our FRSA family members retire after 36 years of service!

Randy McRae, who is an icon and all around great guy decided to move on to his next adventure with his love of his life Libby, who is also a FRSA alumni!

Randy left his mark at the Authority and you can see it everywhere at the plant! We are extremely happy for him, but are sad to see him go!

Randy, we just want to say thank you for your years of service and there will be no one that will ever fill your shoes! Bravo to you and Libby! You two are the best and an example for all that follow!! Time to go have fun! 🙂

We are very proud of Aurora Quinones for representing Four Rivers Sanitation Authority in Alderman Isidro Barrios Hispan...
09/15/2024

We are very proud of Aurora Quinones for representing Four Rivers Sanitation Authority in Alderman Isidro Barrios Hispanic Heritage Parade celebrating Mexico’s Independence Day! It was a beautiful day and plenty of participation by our local officials and our community! We want to thank Aurora and her friends Valeria Chavez, Yazmin Ramirez, Leticia Belmontes and her children for representing FRSA on this very special day! 🙂

It’s been a busy weekend for our very own Stephen Peterson. He has been busy working the Winnebago fair and he also was ...
08/19/2024

It’s been a busy weekend for our very own Stephen Peterson. He has been busy working the Winnebago fair and he also was obligated to staff a booth for the Rock River anything that floats raft race Sunday.

Since, the race was canceled, KNIB - Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful and FRSA decided to still do their H2-OH environmental family fun fair Sunday afternoon!
This booth is to learn about water conservation through fun and interactive activities!

It was sponsored by KNIB working with Corinne Sosso and Pam Osbourne, the Discovery Center, Collin’s Aerospace, Prairie Brewing and FRSA.

A good time for all and a full weekend for Stephen! I think Stephen was happy to get back to work this morning to rest up! Ha! Thank you Stephen!

FRSA had a booth this week at the Winnebago County Fair to get the word out about our quarterly bills going to monthly b...
08/18/2024

FRSA had a booth this week at the Winnebago County Fair to get the word out about our quarterly bills going to monthly billing. As always, it was a total team effort headed up by our Director of Management Services Julia Scott-Valdez!

If you are at the fair today (Sunday) stop by and grab a bottle of water and literature on our new billing program. We have Julia staffing the booth with our Customer Service folks Veronica Jimenez and Chassidy Odgen!

I would like to thank all our folks for taking the time to work the booth this past five days to get the word out to our customers! Thank you Ashley Bernard, Stephen Peterson, Alex Mondujano, Gerard White, Courtney Cox, Nora Jaime, Veronica Jimenez, Chassidy Odgen and Julia Scott-Valdez! What a great group of folks to work with! 🙂

A project that was 8 years in the making and we finally got it done! This is the future Household Hazardous Waste Site t...
08/08/2024

A project that was 8 years in the making and we finally got it done! This is the future Household Hazardous Waste Site that is a City of Rockford operation that has been operational at our facility for 30 plus years.

Due to it being in a flood plain and FRSA needing to put in a new entrance in due to our new facility on the hill, we moved the location for easier access for our customers to just north of our main entrance off Kishwaukee.

A lot of coordination and cooperation between City and FRSA to get this completed.

I want to thank our Engineer Lee Aschim and Chris Baer for making this happen! I also want to thank Randy McRae and the rest of Collection Systems employees headed up by Jim Reader to do this in house to save our customers and citizens money.

I also want to thank Mayor McNamara and City Administrator Todd Cagnoni for their support, along with Rob Wilhelmi, who is responsible for the HHWS.

I also want to mention our Board of Trustees for their support for getting this done, headed up by our Board President Rick pollack.

This new location will be opened on October 5th to our citizens! There will be more information to come soon! 🙂

I love seeing emails like this! This makes me so proud of our folks here at FRSA. Below is a email I received this morni...
07/31/2024

I love seeing emails like this! This makes me so proud of our folks here at FRSA. Below is a email I received this morning! We get these quite often and it never ceases to amaze me the true spirit of what a public servant means!

In this case, our Vactor Operator Junior Maldonado made us all proud! He is an exceptional professional, a giving person and a fabulous family man! Just an all around great guy! Thank you Junior! You always do the right thing! 🙂

Subject: Compliment from Resident about A Vactor Truck Operator

“We received a call from a resident who lives on Applewood Ln, and she stated that she would like to commend one of our Vactor Truck Operators who helped an Autistic boy with his bicycle. The autistic child was riding his bike when it malfunctioned, something with the chain, and the resident, who knew of the child, could not help him fix it. The Vactor Truck Operator took a quick minute to assist. The resident wanted leadership to know she was very thankful and that the Vactor Truck operator was, in her specific words, a “godsend.” She did not provide us the name of the driver, plate, or truck number. Thanks!”

Our Collection Systems group has been extremely busy after our most recent storms. We have had several projects that nee...
07/27/2024

Our Collection Systems group has been extremely busy after our most recent storms. We have had several projects that needed immediate attention due to our EPA permitting.

Since sewers are mostly gravity fed, a lot of our mains are in low areas like in creeks. When the creeks surge, we find erosion of creek banks that will expose our pipes.

When this happens, our group gets in these areas that are usually back in the brush and we have to clear trees to build roads back to the exposed areas to repair!

These pictures are from a pipe exposed in Madigan creek near Cherry Valley. Nearly 300 feet of 27 inch main was exposed. Our folks go in and stabilize the pipe, then cover with riprap and cover with concrete. The issue with creeks are they are ever moving and morphing with the current of the water. These are tough jobs! However, our folks are always ready for anything! They work around the clock and are focused!

Everyone at FRSA Collection Systems are all involved, however in this project, I want to recognize Warren Fischer, our team lead! Brandon Ross, our operator. Zach Morrow, our laborer, Alexz Mandujano, our laborer, and Riley Derry, our laborer! I also want to recognize Ben Christiansen from Engineering!

Thank you to our leadership Jim Reader, our Collection Systems Director, Kurt Hauser, our Collection Systems Maintenance Division Manager, Brian Markgraf, our Collection Systems Construction Division Manager and our Director of Engineering Chris Baer!

I am very proud of them all and this was a major project! It was executed perfectly! Thank you to all of them! It’s been a tough couple of weeks, however our customers expect it and disruption to their service are few! Zero is always the goal! Job well done! 🙂

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Rockford, IL
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