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August 3, 2021
There are a lot of scary things to be found in a wastewater treatment lagoon. In mid-Michigan, you never expect to find an alligator.
It was a shock to workers with the city of Stanton in Montcalm County as an employee took on the unusual title of ‘reptile wrangler’ this weekend.
It’s not rare for a Department of Public Works employee to see wildlife around their wastewater treatment lagoons. They’ll see ducks, geese, snapping turtle and frogs but on Sunday they got a bit of a surprise with an American Alligator swimming through the pond.
“It took me a while to register what really just walked in front of me,” said Andy Bills, the worker who found and caught the gator.