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Byline: Jeremy Harrell
Three wastewater-treatment plants in Wisconsin recently earned national and regional awards as outstanding examples of design and operation.
"It shows we've got the community, the consulting engineer and the operators working together," said Roger Larson, assistant director of the Bureau of Watershed Management in the state Department of Natural Resources. "If you don't have them all working together, it doesn't mean anything. They're good facilities."
The village of Amherst's wastewater-treatment facility will receive a national award in the small community category from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency next month in a ceremony in Chicago at the national conference of the Water Environmental Federation. Foth & Van Dyke, Madison, designed the Amherst facility, Larson said.
The Amherst structure in Portage County serves a population of 983 people and discharges into the Tomorrow River, which is classified as a Class I trout stream, which means that it's clean enough to support a naturally reproducing trout population, he said.