As Jordan Damerel cranked the hand wheel of the heavy gate on the bar screen so his operations teammates could maintain it, it occurred to him that an electric actuator would be so much easier, and well worth the cost, if only the designers had included one in their design.
“Especially when I realized that I’d soon have to go to the other end and close another gate,” he recalls.
That heavy lift was just one of the hands-on lessons Damerel learned when he joined the Fairfield-Suisun Sewer District in California four years ago. He started as an environmental engineer and
