Kyle Headrick likes being left all alone to oversee operations of Hesston’s wastewater treatment plant.
“I’m not a huge people person, so I thought I would enjoy it out here,” he said.
Kirk Matz asked Headrick if he was interested in working for the city in early 1989. The former master plumber said he was if he could get a job at the wastewater treatment plant after Bill Nitzsche retired. After about seven years of working for the water department, Headrick switched departments.
Headrick spends his days keeping track of effluent, bacteria levels and inflows and dewatering sludge, among other chores. He said he rarely heard feedback because most sewage problems happened with the collection system, such as sewer backups.
“Most people don’t even know this is here, I don’t think,” he said about the plant at 7119 N. Hesston Road.
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