How’d you like to enter a drawing for cash prizes every time you dump a load at the local wastewater treatment plant? That’s exactly what happens if you dump at the Mount Dora Wastewater Treatment Plant in Lake County, Fla. With each visit to the plant, pumpers enter a drawing to win either $100 off a future bill or a $10 gift certificate to Subway Restaurant.

What gives? Why the prizes? It’s called the “Lucky Dumper’’ drawing and apparently it’s an initiative to attract more pumpers to an underutilized municipal facility. Read more here:

http://www.dailycommercial.com/News/LakeCounty/062512septic

Does your local treatment plant offer incentives for regular users, discounts or cash-back programs? Let us know. If not, you might want to share this link with your plant operators and ask them to follow suit.

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