Editor,

I’d like to give a shout out to the Langley Wastewater Treatment Facility and Mr. Robert Durr, who asked if I’d like a tour of the facility. Who could refuse that?

The LWTF is kind of a public infrastructure miracle. Nothing delivered there is trucked away; all the vegetative and human waste is carefully and fully processed to make a rich compost free of viruses, dangerous-to-us bacteria, and pharmaceuticals. According to Mr. Durr, the daily tested measures of the compost come in far below what is required by our Washington Department of Ecology.

So I backed up and started shoveling away. As I did so, I heard a spaceship landing nearby; just a Tesla truck backing in. The owner said he had been coming for years. Having formerly worked in pharmaceuticals, he confirmed what Mr. Durr had told me, and that he can grow anything in that compost. I went back five more times.

Who knew? But now I do.

Thanks for the tour, Mr. Durr.

John Seyfried

Bayview