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Lab of the Year Awards

Each year, the Laboratory Accreditation Program recognizes a laboratory for its outstanding commitment to producing high quality data by presenting this award.

Nominees must be laboratories located in Wisconsin.

Nominations may be made by anyone with the exception that laboratories may not nominate themselves.

Contact Tom Trainor if you would like a nomination form.

The current winner is the Rice Lake WWTP.

Rice Lake WWTP

List of past winners:

Year
Presented
Size Laboratory of the Year Winners
2024 NA Rice Lake WWTP
2023 NA Sheboygan Regional WWTP
2022 NA Alliant Energy - Columbia Energy Plant
2021 NA Plymouth Utilities Commission
2020 NA Ashland WWTP
2019 NA Eagle River WWTP
2018 NA Alliant Edgewater Generating Station
2017 NA Rhinelander Sewage Treatment Plant
2017 NA Town of Sullivan Sanitary District #1
2016 NA Columbus WWTP
2015 NA Ripon WWTF
2014 NA Wolf Treatment Plant Laboratory
2013 NA Watertown WWTP
2012 Small Saukville WWTF
2012 Large Whitewater WWTF
2011 Small New Hostein WWTP
2011 Large Fond du Lac Regional WWTF
2010 Small Waupaca WWTP
2010 Large Wolf Treatment Plant Laboratory
2009 Small Spencer WWTP
2009 Large Sheboygan Regional WWTP
2008 Small McCain Foods 
2008 Large Neenah Paper Inc. Whiting Mill
2007 Small Freemont-Oirhula-Wolf River WWTF
2007 Large Stevens Point WWTP
2006 Small Amherst WWTF
2006 Large Janesville City Wastewater Utility Lab
2005 Small Middle River Health Facility
2005 Large Sparta WWTP
2004 Small Boyd WWTP
2004 Large Fontana-Walworth Water Pollution Control Commission
2003 Small Berlin Water & Sewer Utility
2003 Large Cedarburg WWTP
2002 Small Village of Cadott WWTP
2002 Large TSS Ansul Environmental Control Laboratory
2001 Small Blanchardville WWTP
2001 Large Stora Enso North America Whiting Mill
2000 Small Marathon City WWTP
2000 Large Kohler Company Chem Lab
1999 Small Juneau WWTP 
1999 Large Alliant Utilities Nelson Dewey Station
1998 Small DePere WWTP
1998 Large Dairyland Power Coop Environmental Laboratory
1997 Small Medford WWTP
1997 Large WP&L Edgewater Generating Facility
1996 Small Bloomer WWTP
1996 Large Modine Manufacturing Company