N.Y. DEP graduates 72 new sewage treatment workers

New York City Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Carter Strickland presided over a graduation ceremony for 72 new sewage treatment workers who will immediately be assigned to the city’s collection facilities and 14 wastewater treatment plants. The 72 graduates represent the largest class to join DEP, which now employs over 650 sewage treatment workers. To ensure that the graduates are prepared to safely perform the myriad of highly specialized and complex tasks necessary to treat the 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater produced in New York City every day, they completed a mandatory six-week orientation program on a wide variety of topics