pollution control engineer

"If the flow keeps rising, the plant's efficiency will drop, and the river will become polluted," Cesare J. Manfredi, principal water pollution control engineer, said.

In 1988, ozone levels exceeded the Federal standard on 34 days, said Lou Cartalano, an air pollution control engineer for the bureau of air management at the State Department of Environmental Protection.

The Sterling plant has "complied with all the state and Federal requirements, and has probably gone beyond those," said Mark M. Hultman, an air pollution control engineer with the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection.

"I suspect the first time around it will be rejected and we'll have to go around crossing more t's and dotting more i's," said Shelton H. Edwards, an air pollution control engineer at the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection.