For nearly all his life, Alvin Rucker has been committed to cleaning up the James River and preserving its quality for future generations.He recalls swimming and fishing in the river as a boy growing up in Amherst County, Virginia, above the polluted areas downstream from a dam and paper mill.Now, 50 years later, as he retires as superintendent at the Lynchburg Water Resource Recovery Facility, he has overseen treatment improvements that produce clean effluent flowing into the James. “When I took over, we were basically treating for TSS and BOD,” he recalls. “Now we’re removing ammonia, phosphorus and nitrogen. In
