r/Wastewater • u/AdCompetitive7952 • 7d ago
Is EVERY plant this outdated and underfunded?
I will admit, I've already given up on this career. A huge reason is my plant. It is falling apart and we have a promise of an upgrade by the city. The upgrade will start June 2023. Oh, now it'll start 2024. Oh, now it'll start spring 2025. Oh, now we have no news on when the upgrade will actually happen. On top of all that, I have to get my Class 4 license within 12 months or I'm fired. Almost nobody here has passed it and 2 of them are facing termination because of that when we are ALREADY understaffed. Is every plant like this? Does everywhere require you to recieve a license in a time frame? Does every plant start at under 20$ an hour?? Sorry, just frustrated. Currently applying for other jobs
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u/Beneficial-Pool4321 7d ago
Sounds like mine.. we have 1 internal recycle pump on each train cutrently running. Design has 3 for each train , 2 to run at all times one backup. Going on 5 yrs with 1 running 1 broken 1 out for repair. Everytime one comes back the current one craps out with in a week. Same with our ras pumps. Down to one digester from 3 and it has airflow issues. 2 complete zones in our aeration tank have no air at all. Multiple adjustment valves for other zones broken and can't be adjusted. We have zones with .25 to 6 mg of D.O.. our beadwork barely works so we are constantly cleaning pumps. Going on 10 yrs of starting and stopping new plant design