At one time a traffic and transportation engineer, Peter Lescure did not deliberately set out to transition into serving the wastewater industry. But nearly 40 years into his onsite system design career, Lescure has played a role in helping modern wastewater technology take root in California’s Sonoma County wine country.
The career switch happened when Lescure contemplated ways to move from the congested San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s. A friend in Sonoma County encouraged him to buy a backhoe and move north because backhoe operators were hard to find. For five years, from 1964 to 1969, Lescure had worked
