Jim Lehman has been in the wastewater field for more than a decade. But each day the operator at the Carlisle (Pennsylvania) Region Water Pollution Control Facility also gets a taste of a different occupation: horticulture.Treating wastewater might be priority No. 1, but when Lehman has a spare moment he tends to the various flower beds and other plantings he has put in around the facility. It’s a nod back to a lifelong passion, which also happens to have been Lehman’s livelihood for many years. He started working for a fruit tree nursery at around age 12 and remained in the
Green Thumb Operator Adds Gardens to Treatment Plant
Beauty is in the details at a Pennsylvania treatment plant where Jim Lehman uses his passion for gardening to improve the facility's aesthetics
Sep 02, 2015 | by Kyle Rogers |
