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August Lunch & Learn

New Smith Island Wastewater Treatment Plant - Background Information Prior to Fall Site Visit

GMB Salisbury

206 West Main Street

Salisbury, MD 21801

Thursday, August 14th, 2025. Noon

A site visit to Smith Island will be held in fall of 2025. This first meeting is being conducted to provide participants with background information about Smith Island and the treatment plant project prior to the onsite meeting.

“Smith Island: Then and Now”

Presented by Mr. Everett Landon, Sr.

Smith Island is the only inhabited offshore island in Maryland. Its history and location offer challenges for infrastructure construction. Mr. Landon will be sharing a brief history of Smith Island, some personal stories about what it was like growing up there, and how life has changed over the years. He will touch on the culture, traditions and resilience of the community.

“The Smith Island Clean Water Project (SICWP)”

Presented by Peter Bozick

The presentation is intended to provide the background and a brief narrative summary of the project over the past 13 years. Slides showing before and after pictures are intended to help visualize some of the unique logistical, political and financial challenges to bring the project to fruition. Four (4) separate contracts were issued for construction of the wastewater facilities including a timber deck, three (3) pump stations, a subaqueous force main and the wastewater treatment plant.

Presented By:

Mr. Everett Landon, Sr.

Everett Landon, Sr. is a Smith Island native with family roots on the island going back more than six generations. He is the founder of Experience Smith Island, a tour company dedicated to sharing the island’s history, culture and traditions. Everett worked on the water until the age of 30, when he entered the ministry and became a pastor – a role he served in for 20 years, including six years as pastor of Smith Island. Alongside his wife Carol Ann, he now offers guided boat tours, crab shanty visits, and Smith Island cake demonstrations. Through storytelling and hands on experiences, he brings to life the heritage of this unique Chesapeake Bay community.

Peter Bozick, Jr., P.E.

Peter Bozick has 50 years of experience at GMB providing engineering planning, design, and operations support for wastewater treatment facilities on Delmarva. His experience covers small Delmarva towns and communities as well as Ocean City, Salisbury, Cambridge, and Sussex County. His experience with Smith Island wastewater facilities goes back to 1993, with infiltration/inflow assessment, raising pump station wet well structures and corrosion protection for the wastewater treatment plant. Since 2012, GMB been engaged by the Somerset County Sanitary District (SCSD) to protect the pumping stations and treatment plants from flooding, resolve the non-compliance issues for the constructed wetlands serving Tylerton and upgrade the Ewell treatment plant to achieve enhanced nutrient removals. His education includes a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering and a master’s degree in sanitary engineering. He is married with eight (8) children and twelve (12) grandchildren. Peter was recently appointed by the Governor to serve on the Bay Restoration Fund (BRF) Advisory Committee.

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