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Meet the SWS 2024 Industry Icon, Harry Stark

May 13, 2024

Harry Stark currently serves as the director of public services and engineering for the City of Aurora, OH, but his expertise goes far beyond the state of Ohio.

Katie Johns

Harry Stark wears many hats in the stormwater industry. He is currently the director of public services and engineering for the City of Aurora, Ohio; is executive director of the Tinker's Creek Watershed Partners, of which he is also a founder; and is also a founder and director of the annual Ohio Stormwater Conference. In this interview, Stark, while on the 2024 Ohio Storwmater Conference show floor, discusses his career, his hopes for the industry and how he incorporates fun into his work.

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About the Author

Katie Johns

Katie Johns, editor-in-chief of Stormwater Solutions, graduated from the University of Missouri in 2016 with a Bachelor of Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish. Johns joined the Stormwater Solutions team in September 2019. Johns also helps plan the annual StormCon conference and co-hosts the Talking Under Water podcast. Prior to entering the B2B industry, she worked as a newspaper reporter and editor in Sarasota, Florida, and a magazine assistant editor in the Chicago suburbs. She can be reached at [email protected].