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A plant operator is an employee who supervises the operation of an industrial plant. The term is usually applied to workers employed in utilities , wastewater treatment plants , power plants or chemical plants such as gas extraction facilities , petrochemical or oil refineries .
The South Treatment Plant is a wastewater treatment plant in Renton, Washington owned by King County. The plant opened in 1965, and treats over 90 million U.S. gallons (340 million liters) of wastewater per day. It treats sewage for 650,000 people in the cities of Renton, Auburn, Bellevue, Issaquah, Kent, and Sammamish. [1]
In May 2000, a 25 mgd facility, the Water Treatment Plant at Maffitt Lake, renamed the L.D. McMullen Water Treatment Plant in 2007, began operation using five radial collector wells as its main source, and additionally also from Maffitt Reservoir. In August 2003, a monthly pump record was set at 2,262.82 million gallons.
Pools of water are visible at a wastewater treatment plant in San Rafael, California. - Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The study also found climate change could increase exposure.
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South Africa's sewage system has largely collapsed. Globally, on average, annual maintenance to plants amounts to 15% of the plant's value but in South Africa only 1% of the plant's value is spent on annual maintenance. Of 824 water treatment plants, only around 60 release clean water.
A cleaning company has been fined $171,000 after federal investigators found 11 children working a "dangerous" overnight shift at a meat processing plant in Iowa.