(photo by Paul Cockrell)
From the San Jose Mercury News…
The employee is a janitor working as part of a contract company. The massive plant, located in Alviso, has 17 employees in self-quarantine as a result and is running at about 70% staffing.
“The staff is continuing with business as usual, although at a lower head count,” said Kerrie Romanow, director of environmental services for the city of San Jose. “We are continuing to treat wastewater.”
Romanow said Monday that plant operators — employees who have state licenses and who run pumps, filters, chlorination equipment and other systems to treat 100 million gallons of wastewater a day before releasing it into San Francisco Bay — are working in shifts so that they aren’t all together at the same place and time.
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