“What we have is pretty sparkling clean...
“What we have is pretty sparkling clean water. If you hold it up in the light next to a glass of drinking water, it is pretty hard to tell the difference.”
--John Cross, operations manager of the Hyperion sewage plant, as officials proclaimed that the once-troubled plant is meeting federal pollution standards nine years ahead of schedule.
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