Along the way, Mayne has garnered a host of awards and accolades beginning in 1977 with the William D. Hatfield Award from the Utah Water Pollution Control Association to the 2003 Outstanding Biosolids Program from the Water Environment Association of Utah.

Honors include Outstanding Plant Safety, Outstanding Pretreatment Program, and Excellence Award — Collection Systems.

He also served as president of the UWEA in 1982 and 1983 and the Rural Water Association in 2001-03. He also served on the state's Wastewater Certification Board for years and taught part-time at Utah Valley State College.

In 1983 Mayne went to China as part of a technical transfer program and taught the Chinese water technology and how to build wastewater treatment plants.

The district hired Tom Adams a year ago as assistant manager. He took Mayne's place when Mayne stepped aside and moved on.

In the early years of his career and during the Vietnam era Mayne was a reservist at Camp Williams in Company A Special Forces Group for eight years. He was trained in open water scuba diving and communications, weapons, medical, demolition and as an operations sergeant.

Mayne and his wife have seven children and 18 grandchildren. They live on a 3.5 acre ranchette in Lehi where they have horses, chickens and a goat.

"It's nice for the grandkids to run around," he said.

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