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 15 miles down the road.”
Ziegler has stayed with that plant ever since that time, earning his Class A Water Operator certification (surface water lime softening) and rising to become the facility’s lead operator. In that post, he supervises Effingham’s
