During Sid Fredrickson’s first year as Coeur d’Alene wastewater superintendent, part of the answer to a challenging phosphorus limit was a process chemical mixing tank stirred by an electric fishing motor. Twenty-three years later, the plant’s phosphorus control technology is, to say the least, a bit more sophisticated. What hasn’t changed is the dedication Fredrickson and his team bring to quality performance in the city’s treatment plant and collections system. They’re keeping a 75-year tradition of excellence: Coeur d’Alene’s plant, commissioned in 1939, was among the first in the nation to provide secondary treatment. Today the team in Coeur d’Alene, a city of 46,000 in Idaho’s panhandle, is gearing up to meet a new and extremely stringent effluent phosphorus limit/Ted J. Rulseh, Treatment Plant Operator. More here.

Question: Do you ever think about the terrific job Sid & the sewage crew do for the city?