{"id":35822,"date":"2023-09-18T11:33:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T15:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=35822"},"modified":"2023-09-18T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T15:34:00","slug":"david-bayhan-named-director-of-water-utilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/09\/18\/david-bayhan-named-director-of-water-utilities\/","title":{"rendered":"DAVID BAYHAN NAMED DIRECTOR OF WATER UTILITIES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

City Manager Shawn Sherrouse is pleased to announce David Bayhan as Director of Water Utilities, effective September 18, 2023.   He was named Interim Director on April 9, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sherrouse said, \u201cDavid is very familiar with the responsibilities of the position and has significant experience in\u00a0the variety of services provided by the Water Department.\u00a0 Throughout his long career, David has proven himself to be an extremely capable technician, engineer, and administrator.\u00a0 Much of our water and wastewater infrastructure systems have aged beyond life expectancy and are inadequate to meet the needs of our growing community.\u00a0 David and our Water Department team are working daily to resolve these complex issues, while also continuing to provide the very best water and wastewater services to our existing customers.\u00a0 For many years, David\u2019s leadership abilities have been evident and impressive.\u00a0 I have the utmost confidence in his ability to lead our Water Department into Lakeland\u2019s future.\u201d\u00a0Bayhan will report directly to the City Manager\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bayhan said, \u201cI am extremely grateful and very excited for the opportunity to serve as Director of Water Utilities. As a Lakeland native, I am very proud of this City and I look forward to the voyage ahead as we continue to serve this community with safe, reliable, water and wastewater services.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bayhan was born and raised in Lakeland.  He originally started with the City of Lakeland\u2019s Water Department in 2000 as a part-time Engineering Technician.  Bayhan continued to move up in the Water Department taking on more responsibilities and left the City of Lakeland briefly in 2015 to accept the position of Director of Water Utilities for the City of Winter Haven.  He returned in 2017 and accepted the position of Assistant Director of Water Utilities in 2019.  Bayhan was named Interim Director of the utility on April 9, 2023. He graduated from USF and holds Master of Science Degree.  He is married to his wife; Carrie and they have two children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lakeland Water Utilities is responsible for providing potable water and wastewater reclamation to residential, commercial, and industrial customers.  The Water Department covers a service territory of about 132 square miles within the greater Lakeland area. The Wastewater Service territory covers about 149 square miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

City Manager Shawn Sherrouse is pleased to announce David Bayhan as Director of Water Utilities, effective September 18, 2023.   He was named Interim Director on April 9, 2023. Sherrouse said,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[5982],"class_list":["post-35822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-david-bayhan-named-director-of-water-utilities"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}