Joe Russell has been a sanitarian since 1987 and for 20 years ran the Health Department in Flathead County, Montana, as the health officer. He retired once, but he’s back in his old job for a while because of difficulty finding his replacement. Yet he now has the opportunity to accomplish a longtime goal: building a county-owned facility to handle septage.Money is in place for a solution that officials hope will solve the shrinking number of disposal sites and loss of pumpers in the county.
Pumper: How did you come to find yourselves in this situation?Russell: We’re sitting in the same
