Twenty-one employees work at the wastewater and water treatment plants, keeping toilets flushing and water flowing. Author: Jessica Clark Updated: 7:36 PM EST December 17, 2020
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla While healthcare employees are the first people to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, some leaders in St. Augustine know of another group that they want toward the top of the list of recipients: the people who work at wastewater treatment plants.
Many of the city s leaders believe they are very essential to the health of the community.
Todd Grant is the St. Augustine Deputy Director of Public Works and said, For the water treatment plant, I have ten staff. For the wastewater plant, I have 11 staff. So you can imagine if one of them contracted the virus and I had to quarantine the entire staff, the plant can’t run on its own. Either plant can’t run on its own.