Laboratory

Amy Palaschak is the Supervising Chemist for the City of Jacksonville Water Plant and Land Treatment Facility. Amy has twenty years of combined work experience in environmental regulations, public utility operations and laboratory. She started working for the City of Jacksonville in 2009 as a Laboratory Technician and was promoted to Supervising Chemist in 2018. Amy has a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA) and a Master of Science in Environmental Health from East Carolina University (Greenville, NC). She possesses multiple licenses in the State of North Carolina. Amy is certified by the NC Department of Health and Human Services and State Laboratory of Public Health for NC Drinking Water Bacteriological Analyses and NC Process Control Chemistry. Amy is certified by the NC American Water Works Association and NC Water Environment Association as an NC Class II Wastewater Analyst. Amy is certified by the NC Department of Environmental Quality, Water Resources Division as an NC Drinking Water A-Well Water Treatment Facility Operator, an NC Grade II OIT Biological Wastewater Operator, an NC Land Application Operator and an NC Surface Irrigation Operator. Amy is also certified by the Southeast Desalting Association for Introduction to Membrane Systems. Amy has also completed the Management Leadership Training Program from the Utah State University Business Institute. Amy was a co-author of the Safe Drinking Water chapter in Environmental Public Health : The Practitioner’s Guide by Paul L. Knechtes, et al. APHA Press, 2018.