A wastewater treatment plant in Rockland, Maine, saw over $10,000 in damages after vandals entered the facility overnight. The vandals destroyed an industrial-size air conditioner, causing an electrical outage that disabled critical pumps.
The outage triggered an alarm, prompting operators and the director to respond in the early hours of the morning, where they found sewage in a tank close to overflowing. An operator manually controlled the pump to prevent a spill. The city plans to install a surveillance system as a result of the incident.
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