Chris Hughes, assistant water and wastewater operator for the towns of Cavendish and Proctorsville in Vermont, deals with the effects of a power outage at a drinking water facility. Claire Harbage/NPR
Claire Harbage/NPR
In a small town in southern Vermont, not far from the lauded ski slopes of Okemo, there’s water gushing out of the back of a treatment facility.
For Chris Hughes, the assistant water and wastewater operator for the towns of Cavendish and Proctorsville, it’s just another problem and another day on the job. This time, he’s pretty sure a lightning strike disrupted the water treatment process. Other