A Connecticut plant superintendent gets his state’s highest official to proclaim a special day to appreciate wastewater treatment and the people in the profession.
Kevin Shlatz, at the Town of Enfield South River Street pumping station, which high school students are painting to resemble an old Tuscan village. “The pump station is one of our most visible assets, so we try to make it eye-pleasing,” Shlatz says. “It makes for good community relations.”
On the day he started work in May 2011 as a second-shift maintenance foreman at the Town of Enfield (Conn.) Water Pollution Control Facility, Kevin Shlatz got a surprise.
“On the first Monday, the plant superintendent told me, ‘I’m retiring,’ ” Shlatz recalls. “I said, ‘Oh, how...
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