Fred Dale and the Salt Creek Sanitary District
Wastewater Treatment Plant in Villa Park, Ill., have come a long way over the last 38 years.
When Dale entered the wastewater profession in 1972, many considered working at a treatment plant to be a dead-end job. And for many years the plant also had been the site of the community's garbage dump, reinforcing the negative impression. But now, as Dale retires after a long and successful career, he looks back on the many changes that have given the clean-water business well-deserved respect. "I saw the end of
