Here's How a Massachusetts Town Prepared Its Wastewater Staff to Respond to a Natural Disaster

A mock storm drill helps the facility team in a Massachusetts town adopt a proactive emergency management plan and build resiliency.

Here's How a Massachusetts Town Prepared Its Wastewater Staff to Respond to a Natural Disaster

Staff made changes to a backup process pump so it can be used to send mixed liquor suspended solids directly to a chlorine contact chamber if necessary during a high-flow storm event.

By their nature, wastewater treatment plants that service coastal communities are vulnerable to storm surges and floods.

The town of Hull, Massachusetts, on a peninsula at the southern edge of Boston Harbor, is particularly at risk. Surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean on two sides...

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