Being responsible for twins joined at the hip doesn’t phase Linda Schick of Fairhaven, Massachusetts.She takes her duties as sewer and wastewater superintendent at the Fairhaven Water Pollution Control Facility and West Island Treatment Plant personally. “At some point, the collections system and treatment plant components stopped being objects and became family,” she says.The members are mainly advanced senior citizens. They leak, creating huge inflow and infiltration problems. They collapse from fatigue or block structurally. Their valves creak and motors whine, but repairs are difficult because many replacement parts are no longer available.“Almost every upstream event affects the Fairhaven plant
