In the bad old days around Plainfield, N.J., sewers leaked, moratoriums halted community development, and one particularly odorous location along the system was labeled “One of the Stinkiest Places in New Jersey.”That’s all changed, thanks to the creation of the Plainfield Area Regional Sewerage Authority and the efforts of PARSA executive director Robert Villée and his lean, hard-working team of just five operators.“We’re the middlemen,” Villée says of the PARSA staff. “We are responsible for the interceptor that connects all eight PARSA member communities to the area’s wastewater treatment plant.”While their focus is on the interceptor, they’re generous with their
