Consider a career in sewer work
In a popular TV series way back in the last century, Jackie Gleason’s sidekick, Art Carney, spent his working days in the sewers of New York. Not a glamourous job, but a necessary one. These days there’s great need for workers to man Oconee’s treatment plant, as several of the plant’s workers are within a few years of retirement and no replacements are on the horizon. It leads to the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority to re-think how it attracts workers. As mentioned in a meeting yesterday, pay is a problem as other sewer operations across the Upstate offer salaries sometimes tens of thousands of dollars above Oconee. The JRSA has turned to Tri-County Tech for help in creating an apprentice program.