Just came in the mail today you will need State of AK Water Plant lis.
unsure what level. Job is at JBER FT Richardson Water Plant all I know. Probably sent it to me cause of my State Certifications probably need level 3 or higher.

Not bad pay for a water treatment plant operator.

I've been to that plant. The operator and manager we were working with seemed pretty decent.

damn, and all I have is a state plumbing inspectors license and a few other inspectors licenses... it was supposed to get me further in life...

while my nephew is getting all his water/wastewater licenses in what was supposed to only be a lifetime job.

LOL.

I may have to see about a few other licenses in the next few yeras and then see how they would transfer state to state...

Since there's a lot less people in Alaska does that mean you don't deal with as much chit?

1.8 years retired not any more for 40 years I had to !

Good for you. Enjoy your well earned retirement!

It's volume per person that counts and Alaska has it....just check every pull-out on Denali Highway.

So Alaskans are full of chit? 😁

ETA.....If Alaskans are that full-o-chit I'd hate to be a wastewater treatment specialist in Texas. 😉

I spent a bit of the summer working at the Anchorage waste treatment plant, yeah, it stinks. Even working in doors on a computer, at the end of the day you come home and need to through your clothes in the washer and hit the shower.

Most of my career was water treatment but I knew my cshit also. Primary Treatment at Asplund one of the few left in the US.

chuckle

Is that the plant dumping (almost) straight into the inlet?

The knock out the solids, and then treat the discharge with hypochlorite. Not exactly dumping straight into the inlet, but not giving the full treatment of typical plants.

The smaller Eagle River plant has typical chit eating bugs, and then a UV treatment before being dishcharged.

Chit stream lite.

Actually its probably very clean , not drinking water clean but pretty good. Like said above they treat the effluent with hypochlorite (basically strong bleach ) then most likely sodium bisulfite to remove the hypo. The plant I run in Va discharges into a small river . Independent testing shows the water quality downstream is better than that above the plant.

https://www.awwu.biz/website/Wastewater/wastewtr.htm

Well, that shoots down my farmed tilapia plan.

Why not, you can have farmed Halibut out in the Trash Lane !!

KK how many mgd was the plant?

Which plant AWWU Water or FT Rich?

Dean
You need a job toting bales up skyscrapers, using the stairs!

The system I manage in WV is achieving the same results; plant effluent is "cleaner" than what is upstream of us.

I was a Chief Water Plant Operator (the Stud Duck, as I was nick-named)from 1998-2008. 2008-2010 Assistant GM, 2010-present the General Manager.

I know the water treatment more than wastewater, but the system I manage treats both.

Which plant in WV? The one I run is Mt Crawford VA. Just south of Harrisonburg

Flatwoods-Canoe Run Public Service District.

OK don't get to that part of Wva often. I own some property in Pendleton co and some friends and I have a camp in Randolph County. Do a lot of fishing all over the state though.

Art

Kinda hard to find the bales to carry around here, concrete don't grow much hair round these parts.

Though that type of activity would have someone in sheep shape pretty quick if you could convince security on the ground floor of the empire state build that you really were going sheep hunting and not a terrorist.

Pendleton is a beautiful area of the state. I'm not over there much.

Randolph, depending on the area is only about an hour or so away. I've always liked it over there too.