I felt a need to respond to your article, “The Case for Old School” (TPO, May 2015). I have been in the wastewater/water/distribution and collections departments of several utilities and can answer some of your questions about new technologies and advances in our field.I am reminded of my beginning in wastewater in 1987 in New Hampshire. I began my career in a chemical plant, and at that time we had only a lagoon system, for which we had to meet some new and stringent NPDES permit limits. We were building a new state-of-the-art plant.My fellow operators and I were trained
