Many pumping contractors build wastewater treatment plants to process the waste they haul, but Steve Macchio of Lindenhurst, N.Y., is in the wastewater treatment business. His facilities, one each in Lindenhurst, Orlando, Fla., and Elkhart, Ind., treat restaurant grease trap waste, septage, sewage sludges and portable restroom waste. Some also process nonhazardous industrial wastewater.Macchio says he’s been able to modify each property, making the treatment plants as operator-friendly as possible. Lindenhurst was a precious metal recovery facility, Elkhart treated pharmaceutical wastes, and Orlando was a privately owned plant that land-applied lime-stabilized septage.The National Association of Wastewater Transporters chose Macchio’s Select
