Posted by Wardner on May 14, 2009 at 13:16:45 from (4.154.245.130):
In Reply to: Dirtiest jobs posted by Mark W. on May 14, 2009 at 09:43:26:
I am retired from the sandblasting business. Occasionally, when business was slow I bid on work at sewage treatment plants.
On the bulletin board in the breakroom, was an article from the Worcester, MA paper. It had pictures and text of a plant worker ready to jump into an aerator with SCUBA gear. An aerator is like a swimming pool but four times as deep. It is the first stage of treatment. The tanks usually have one or two high horsepower, large diameter vertical propellers. It's kinda like making whipped cream.
Anyway, the worker dove to the bottom to retrieve whatever had been dropped in the tank. The reporter asked him how the job went. The diver said great, "They're giving me the rest of the day off."
I kinda inferred from that remark that he had done this a few times before. It was "all in a day's work?
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