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Cottage Grove’s wastewater plant was first built in 1953 to handle 6,000 residents.
Part I of a two-part series.
COTTAGE GROVE – Most folks don’t want to think about what happens when they flush the toilet. They are happy enough to see that swirling vortex, to hear the reassuring sound of a flush, thinking that it is now somebody else’s problem. But when a toilet gets clogged – or worse, there is a…




