“Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lie before you.” Author Denis Waitely could have been talking about Pete Laramie, chief operator at the Fair Haven (Vt.) Wastewater Treatment Plant.Laramie has shown persistence throughout his 28-year career in water, 20 at the Fair Haven plant at the southwestern “hook” of the Green Mountain State. He and his staff have worked tirelessly to optimize biological phosphorous and nitrogen removal, trim energy and chemical costs, and reduce nutrient loadings discharged to the Castleton River and, ultimately, Lake Champlain.In the process, Laramie, a fourth generation Fair
