Operator reunites a resident with an heirloom that sat in a manhole for 9 years Collection systems employees at the City of Somers Point, N.J., found the proverbial needle in a haystack, or more precisely, the ring in a sewer system. In November, Ted Gogol, wastewater operator and Somers Point public works crew chief, was […]
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Lost and Found: City of Moline, Ill. Retrieves Laser
October 14, 2015
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![Lost and Found: City of Moline, Ill. Retrieves Laser A variety of toys have been recovered from the City of Moline’s (Ill.) water resource recovery facilities. Photo courtesy of Robert J. Barnard, treatment operations manager and pretreatment coordinator for the City of Moline Water Pollution Control division.](https://news.wef.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/City-of-Moline-Ill.-Toy-Collection-75x75.jpg)
Employees have retrieved quite the variety of items from the two water resource recovery facilities operated by the City of Moline (Ill.) Water Pollution Control Division. The lost-and-found list includes toys, construction equipment, animals, drugs (likely flushed during police raids), and a $50 bill that paid for a staff pizza lunch. The most valuable item […]
Lost and Found: Union Sanitary District Employees Save the Day
September 10, 2015
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At least to some, wastewater treatment personnel are real-life superheroes. Union Sanitary District (USD; Union City, Calif.) Collection Services employees saved the day for Mehvish Tapal and her family after an heirloom was flushed down the toilet in early October 2014. After Tapal realized that her 3-year-old son flushed a ring that had been in […]
Digging for Gold
March 3, 2015
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![Digging for Gold Martinez said Warren was very happy to find the engagement ring and maintenance crews were able to do it with only 4 hours of searching. Photo courtesy of Martinez.](https://news.wef.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/HI_sewer-ring-photo-4-75x75.jpg)
Maintenance Crews in Pacifica, Calif., find a gold engagement ring The average person would be shocked to hear about the myriad of odd things found inside collection systems and water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs). Some finds seem so far-fetched they enter the realm of urban legend, but the stories are true. Wastewater treatment operators […]
Gator Visits Florida Wastewater Treatment Plant
June 15, 2012
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Everyone knows that Florida is full of alligators. Sometimes they even visit wastewater treatment plants. In May, operators at the Main Street Water Reclamation Facility in Gainesville, Fla., found a 9.5-ft-long scaly visitor lurking in one of the clarifiers. Get the rest of the story in the July issue of Water Environment & Technology.
February 26, 2019
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