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Jay Patel, senior laboratory analyst, and Jennifer Brandon, environmental compliance manager, set up plant effluent samples for fecal coliform analysis.
The clean-water plants at the Clayton County Water Authority have an excellent record for meeting effluent permit requirements. That is thanks to an excellent operations team but also to an award-winning laboratory.
In the 2,000-square-foot lab, team members perform regular tests...