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John Perry has developed operator training courses for many years and is an adjunct instructor at Rutgers University in a continuing professional education program for water and wastewater operators.
After only eight months on the job, John Perry faced a water crisis.
In the summer of 2020, an explosion of toxic cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) shut down recreation in Lake Hopatcong, the largest lake in New Jersey, damaging businesses dependent on tourism. “It was really...