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TREEO Timeline
2002Selected as U.S. EPA PEER Local Resource Center
2001Offers online training courses
2001Petroleum Storage Tanks program begins
2000Creates Environmental Management Systems Institute
1997UF/TREEO Ecosystem/Water Garden established
1997Environmental Management Systems program begins
1996GIS/GPS program begins
1996UF/TREEO becomes headquarters for Southeast Partnership for Environmental Technology Education
1995Lead Abatement program begins
1987Initiates Florida's first training programs for solid waste landfill operators
1986Asbestos Abatement program begins
 Hazardous Waste/Materials program begins
1982Begins providing in-plant technical assistance and training to small municipally owned wastewater facilities under U.S. EPA-funded program
1979Backflow Prevention program begins
1979Opens doors at new facility
1977Breaks ground on new facility
1977Begins offering water and wastewater training before construction is complete on new facility
1975UF/TREEO receives U.S. EPA Construction Grant
1974State of Florida Board of Regents determines that the training center will be administered by the University of Florida and located on the land donated by the city of Gainesville
1974By unanimous vote in both houses, the 1974 Florida Legislature directs the Board of Regents to establish the Center for Training, Research and Education for Environmental Occupations. The governor designates the center as the state training center under Section 109 (b) of the Clean Water Act.
1973City of Gainesville and Alachua County Regional Electric, Water and Sewer Utilities vote to deed Kanapaha Plant site property for proposed environmental training center
1972Director of state of Florida Department of Pollution Control appoints special committee to study how to provide statewide water and wastewater operator training
TREEO Groundbreaking, 1977
TREEO Groundbreaking, 1977

TREEO's entrance foyer, fall, 2003
TREEO's entrance foyer, fall, 2003