When the going gets tough, the tough get going. That's what John Riccio and his staff did when their plant flooded in March 2010. Riccio, superintendent of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) wastewater treatment plant in Clinton, Mass., remembers it well.
"A bad storm caused a huge increase in influent flows, made worse by the South branch of the Nashua River overflowing its banks," Riccio says. "At one point, the influent wet well elevation rose so rapidly that the pumps couldn't keep up."
Riccio's team kept the plant running, and processed 6 to 7 million
