These days, Arnie Bevins is even more focused on ensuring the future well-being of the treatment works and its staff than on making the monthly permit at his Town of Vernon (Conn.) Water Pollution Control Facility.
He makes sure that extensive Standard Operating Procedures are up to date and readily available, and that new people are brought on board and trained on the innovative and complex processes that make Vernon unique among treatment plants in New England and across the United States. Furthermore, the Vernon staff has been “hands-on” throughout the many improvements and upgrades to the plant.
“We were the first
