“I wish they could spend a day walking in my shoes.”
How many wastewater treatment operators have entertained that thought in connection with the public officials in their communities? A goodly number, no doubt.
Marian Galbraith, mayor of Groton, Conn., granted that wish for the team at the city’s Pollution Abatement Facility — only they didn’t have to ask. Galbraith, elected to her first term in May 2011, used job shadowing as a way to get more familiar with the work of all city departments and their employees.
Her comments on the experience raise a question: Why shouldn’t clean-water plants around the country
