Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell throws a tarp on the front steps of the State House and sprays it with soapy water to create his own Slip-’N-Slide. He comes to a grinding halt on the dry concrete at the bottom, though – but his road rash burns spell out a city memo. And we were there to transcribe it!
Picture time
Your pic on a trash truck?
The city’s contracted trash and recycling vendor, Casella, and Concord General Services, are searching for two photos that best represent Concord to be printed on both sides of Casella’s two new split-body trash and recycling trucks, Aspell writes. We proposed reprinting the pages of the Insider center spread on a weekly basis.
The city and Casella designed a third truck with the photo of the Concord clock tower. The General Services Department is searching for people to submit photos that represent our beautiful city. Thus far the search has been through the woods and two ponds, but we figured we’d help them search here, where people actually are. Two photos will be chosen. One photo will be printed per truck. See official rules to apply at concordnh.gov/DocumentCenter/View/4340. Contest ends at 11:59 p.m. Aug. 15.
I’ll be bac(teria)
Wastewater of a day
The General Services Department welcomed students from St. Paul’s School this past week to tour the Hall Street Wastewater Treatment Plant, Aspell writes. The students learned about the industrial, chemical and natural biological treatment of wastewater. After the tour, Wes Ripple (best name ever for a guy who works with water? We say yes), wastewater operations specialist from the state Department of Environmental Services, showed the students slides of collected samples of bacteria, which occurs naturally in the wastewater and works to clean it by “eating” the organic matter. That represents the first time the word “eating” was mentioned in the same sentence as wastewater. The tour and lesson helped teach the students how the Wastewater Treatment Plant produces safe effluent for the city of Concord.
