Gus Strehlo might not have come to Wausau, Wis., or entered the wastewater profession at all, if not for his need to get a job and support a family after graduating from college. “I had a degree in biology from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, but this (wastewater) was not at all what I planned,” he remembers. “Still, jobs were tough to find in 1979, so I took a position at the treatment plant in Hudson, Wis. Before that, I thought it was a fish hatchery.”He knows the difference now. At the Wausau Wastewater Treatment Plant, in north central Wisconsin,
