When making rounds, a treatment plant operator’s tasks typically do not include removing deer from clarifiers. But that wasn’t the case one recent afternoon in Springfield, Illinois.A deer found its way into a clarifier at a plant operated by Springfield City Water, Light & Power (CWLP) on Dec. 27. Todd LaFountain, general superintendent of water purification, estimates the deer was swimming around the basin less than an hour before it was discovered by an assistant operator.“We have two operators on staff at all times, and this was part of the assistant operator’s round. He was doing his basin checks,” he
