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The team at the Richmond Wastewater Treatment Facility includes, from left, Aaron Krymkowski, lead mechanical operator; Kendall Chamberlin, plant superintendent; Dameon Young with Working Dog Septage Service; Allen Carpenter, lead process operator; and Bradley Snow, operator in training.
The Richmond clean-water plant was humming along just fine until the Vermont town’s creamery shut down in 1999.
“With the creamery, our flows were about 150,000 to 200,000 gpd,” says Kendall Chamberlin, plant superintendent. “When they left, our flows dropped to about...