Rob McElroy doesn’t believe a clean-water agency should keep a low profile.“We don’t want to go into a prevent defense like every NFL team, which then goes on to lose in the last two minutes,” says McElroy, general manager of Daphne (Ala.) Utilities.His public outreach programs include — of all things — handing out cakes of soap at public gatherings. Believe it or not, the soap helps energize a household grease recycling program that has reduced sanitary sewer overflows by 70 percent since 2006.McElroy’s approach to SSO prevention is similar to fire departments’ approach to fire prevention: Make people aware
