Ridgeway, MO: When Ridgeway City Clerk Toni Storms picked up the phone this summer, she was out of options. The city’s decades-old lagoon pump, which moves wastewater through the treatment process, had failed; replacement parts were no longer available, and every patchwork fix had fallen short. Without a new pump, the small town risked falling out of compliance with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR).–Submitted article
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