NORTH SWANZEY -- To one person, they look like balloons. To another, mini-octopuses. But, to the eye of Donna Hanscom, lab manager at the Keene sewer plant, they are dancing bouquets.
An odd vision, no doubt, of the condoms that survive their journey from Keene's toilets to the plant hidden behind Dillant-Hopkins Airport in North Swanzey.
They are not the only things that escape the teeth of the grinder that is supposed to chew up everything that heads into the plant.
There are all sorts of unflushables: A Sharpie pen, a pink maxipad wrapper and pieces of plastic churn in a massive vat into which up to 3 millioll gallons of sewage pours each day.
However, perhaps most importantly to neighbors, the plant doesn't (,sniff" sniff) smell that bad -- amazing, considering that every time a Keene
resident flushes his toilet, it comes out here. After 13 years of complaints
about odors wafting from the sewer plant into neighboring back- yards, the
past two years have been pretty quiet, Hanscom said.
It wasn't always that way.
Since the day the first drop of sewage trickled into the plant in 1985,
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