![First the Farthest East. Now the Farthest West. This Operator's Career Spans the Continent.](https://cole-tpomag.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tpomag.com%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Funalaska_35.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=dd064c2f9b5477c6f1a4de10e0af8cba)
Mark Descoteaux, left, shown with operator Trever Shaishnikoff, faces challenges that include challenging logistics in delivery of supplies to his plant’s remote location.
Not many clean-water operators can watch orca and humpback whales while doing plant rounds.
That privilege belongs to Mark Descoteaux and his five-member team at the Unalaska Wastewater Treatment Facility, on an Aleutian island in the Bering Sea some 800 miles west of Anchorage,...