![Here's How a Massachusetts Town Prepared Its Wastewater Staff to Respond to a Natural Disaster](https://cole-tpomag.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tpomag.com%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fbackup_process_pump_changes.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=620&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=75&w=1024&s=b2d377e38d20ff47d47f268d8688f277)
Staff made changes to a backup process pump so it can be used to send mixed liquor suspended solids directly to a chlorine contact chamber if necessary during a high-flow storm event.
By their nature, wastewater treatment plants that service coastal communities are vulnerable to storm surges and floods.
The town of Hull, Massachusetts, on a peninsula at the southern edge of Boston Harbor, is particularly at risk. Surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean on two sides...