Staffing Shortages, Aging Equipment and Other Challenges Can't Keep This Plant From Excelling

A Kentucky clean-water plant team maintains award-winning Performance with aging equipment while awaiting a brand-new facility.

Staffing Shortages, Aging Equipment and Other Challenges Can't Keep This Plant From Excelling

The team at the Ashland Wastewater Treatment Plant includes, front row, from left, Kim Nethercutt, Operator 1; Jeff McFarlin, chief operator; and James Morgan, superintendent. Middle row, Larry McKee, lab director; Mark Anderson, lab technician; and Jeff Adkins, Operator 4. Back row, Dave Krueger, maintenance director; and Rick Morrison, Operator 2.

For proof that there’s no keeping a good plant down, look to Ashland, Kentucky.

In February, a truck loaded with landfill leachate broke through the concrete slab over the main electrical conduit, shutting off power to the plant and the biosolids building for three days.

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