Two 23.5-acre lagoons sit outside Junction City, where 10 pump stations send the city’s wastewater into a treatment facility.
Piped oxygen flows into the lagoons, providing a necessary ingredient to break down the waste before sending the water on its way — after testing for bacteria — into Flat Creek, which eventually flows to the Willamette River.
Workers monitor the wastewater and equipment, which is surrounded by farmland west of Junction City…