No worries.” That’s how supervisor Jeff Totherow feels about his wastewater treatment plant when he’s not there.
It’s because of a competent and talented staff of Matt Smith, laboratory director; Bryan Gordon, maintenance director; Loarn Hinkle, lead operator; J.C. Davis, operator; and Jeff Turner and Martin Dixon, operator trainees.
Together they run the 5.0 mgd (design) Tullahoma (Tennessee) Wastewater Treatment Plant, which uses an intermittent cycle extended aeration system (ICEAS) to treat wastewater from a community of 19,000 about 75 miles southeast of Nashville. “They’ve got it together,” Totherow says. “They understand their responsibilities. I can sleep like a baby at night.”
Unique process
Constructed in the mid-1980s, the
