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Operator Horror Stories
Author(s) -
Ritchlin Lance
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
opflow
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1551-8701
pISSN - 0149-8029
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8701.1998.tb02143.x
Subject(s) - operator (biology) , work (physics) , storage tank , computer security , water tanks , environmental science , computer science , engineering , waste management , mechanical engineering , biology , biochemistry , repressor , transcription factor , gene
This article relates several “horror stories” of incidents that operators encountered during their regular work shifts. Incidents include: chlorine ejectors that wouldn't open; a dead and decaying possum in a valve box; dead skunks in an aboveground storage tank; a deserted treatment plant; a missing patrol car; complaints that the drinking water was causing hair to fall out; an attack of killer bees; an inebriated operator caused storage tanks to overflow and others were critically low; and, failure to purge the air from distribution pipes after they were drained for maintenance‐caused shattering of fixtures.