Week of October 31

     My name is Phillip, and I am a senior at Forsyth Central High School. I have been raised to love and understand the benefits that the environment offers us. That being said, I am fully aware that the environment is in the worst shape that it has been in. I chose to pursue a career in environmental engineering because of this. I want to be able to say that I helped the environment when most other people were doing the exact opposite. With this in mind, I believe that Keep Forsyth Beautiful believes like I believe and also wants to help the environment in ways that will prolong its existence.

     At Keep Forsyth Beautiful, I take part in numerous activities. I started out the year touring a recycling facility belonging to Advanced Disposal. Then I moved to visiting waste water facilities across the county, where I saw the different methods of water filtration, including biological and chemical. Then, I got to understand the flip side of that coin when I visited a drinking water facility where I got to see how they take the water out of the environment and transform it, chemically, into the tap water that comes out of our sinks. I have also taken part in many other activities, including Code Enforcement and Storm Water Management. With Forsyth County Engineering, I partook in the latter of the last two, along with the task of correcting and accepting runoff water plans on newly designed housing lots. With my mentor at Keep Forsyth Beautiful, we have began scheduled maintenance of methane flares at the old landfill in North Forsyth, as well as collecting waste that people have dumped on the side of the road and in creeks.

     Next year, I will be starting at Kennesaw State University Marietta Campus, to begin my journey to a degree in Environmental Engineering. My mentorship will help me tremendously in that I will be able to have a decent grasp several of the possible career fields that I could go into, after I earn a college degree.

     Below are some of the activities that I have taken part of.

Above is my mentor and I.