Moses Lake city Wastewater Manager Chris Campbell (left) with the city’s wastewater treatment crew — (left to right) Justin Akerley, Zach Martinez, Gary Vela, Joey Barkle, Dustin Roth, Alex Morton, Franklin Ridgeway, Ignacio Deleon — at the Dunes Wastewater Treatment Plant last week. Pictured behind them is one of the city’s giant rodder trucks used to clean and maintain city sewers.
July 4, 2022
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Unsung heroes treat wastewater in Moses Lake
This is what happens after the toilet is flushed.
MOSES LAKE — As the person in charge of the city of Moses Lake’s wastewater treatment facilities, Chris Campbell understands the importance of what he and his staff of 10 do every day. “I mean, we would be back in the dark ages if we didn’t do this work,” Campbell said as he stood in the midst of the city’s Dunes Wastewater Treatment Facility, which sprawls across roughly 300 acres south of I-90. “We’re preventing plague. We’re preventing dysentery.” ...