When Jamie Amlong drove into the Norton (Kansas) Water Treatment Plant on a May morning in 2016, he had no idea he was about to confront a catastrophe.
He could smell chlorine gas and, assuming there was a small leak somewhere, he walked up to the chlorine contact building. That’s when he noticed green gas puffing out around the door and a 15-foot patch of grass around the entrance burned to a crisp.
“A faulty heater had warmed up the room to the point where the lead plug on one of our chlorine cylinders melted,” he recalls. The entire contents of the
