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Mike Ziegler, lead water operator at the Effingham Water Treatment Plant, visits the dam near the plant’s water source.
From the time he graduated high school until 1996, Mike Ziegler was a dairy farmer in Beecher City, Illinois.
“Then we had a herd dispersal with all of the cattle being sold off,” he says. “So, I answered an ad for a part-time job at the Effingham Water Treatment Plant, just...
