Chris Lehman

City of San Luis Obispo, Deputy Director of Wastewater

Chris ​​Lehman is currently the Deputy Director of Wastewater for the City of San Luis Obispo. After serving six years in the US Navy as a radar electrician, he began his career in water in 2010 as an Operator in Training (OIT) at the San Luis Obispo Water Resource Recovery Facility, and soon after obtained with Grade V Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator license. Chris has a passion for connecting people and ideas, with an emphasis on operational efficiency, and gets great joy out of crowdsourcing ideas that allow people and organizations to do more with less.