To the team at the Southwest Wastewater Treatment Plant in Springfield, Mo., passion for delivering clean water reaches far beyond the facility boundaries.
During two weekends in spring 2013, many employees of the 42.5 mgd (design) activated sludge plant joined 150 community volunteers to plant more than 7,000 seedlings along a nearly two-mile stretch of Wilson’s Creek, which is the plant’s receiving stream.
“It was quite an event, full of enthusiasm and pride by everyone,” says Stephanie Gott, plant biologist, who coordinated the effort. The idea to restore the stream corridor nearly a mile from the plant emerged more than two years
