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Robert F. Rocheleau
Pages 176-179

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... career with the New Hampshire Water Pollution Control Board as a senior engineer in 1946 and subsequently served as executive secretary of the West Virginia State Water Commission from 1949 to 1954 at which time heroines the Engineering Depart177
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... Industrially he is responsible for having developed process design criteria for the first complete mix biological treatment plant in the United States and the first industrial waste biological treatment plant at DuPont. He coauthored a paper on this accomplishment, "Systems for Handling Wastes from the Manufacture of furlong Acrylic Fiber," Journal Water Pollution Control Federation, 1961.
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... He is an example of how one engineer can favorably affect national welfare. After a career centered on protecting the water, Bob and his wife retired on an isTancl waterway near Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where they enjoyed boating, fishing, music, and travel.
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