Water Treatment Plant in Nelsonville Now Online
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City's Water Treatment Plant is Online and Providing Water to City Residents and Businesses
Ground was broken for the new plant back in August 2012. The project was completed last month and the new plant replaces the city's former treatment facility, which was built in 1938. As The Messenger previously reported, the old plant was designed to treat surface water, however in the 1980s, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency made the city convert to a well water source. Nelsonville has three wells that supply the city with drinking water.
The project has been in the planning and development stages since 2008, according to information provided by the city.
Improvements to the water treatment system included new raw waterlines from the wells to provide reliable and stable drinking water for the residents of Nelsonville for many years to come. The project cost more than $4.7 million, with 15 percent funded through grants and the remainder funded with low interest loans.
The new treatment process is automated and can be operated and monitored remotely through a computer interface.
The waste stream from the new plant including filter backwash, ion exchange regeneration and rinsing and domestic waste is discharged into the sanitary sewer system for treatment at the wastewater treatment plant.
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