Rescuing a baby goose from an aeration tank isn't usually on the to-do list of an operator. But last June that challenge fell to Nick Zappia, superintendent of the Village of Massena (N.Y.) Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants, and his team.
"I was adjusting the air to our aeration tanks and noticed the mother and her baby in the tank," Zappia says. "The geese had lost their flight feathers, so we actually spent most of the day trying to get the parents out of the tanks." (Geese molt each summer, losing their flight
