The new water plant is designed to treat up to 3.7 million gallons of water per day. It is a lime softening facility. Calcium and magnesium hardness is removed from the well water supply by reacting with a lime slurry in the solids contact clarifiers. Aluminum sulfate is used as a coagulant to insure settleability. Prior to filtering, carbon dioxide (recarbonation) is injected to neutralize excess lime and caustic alkalinity to provide for a non-encrusting water. The filtered water is then fluoridated and chlorinated prior to being pumped to the customer through the distibution system.
The current water system serves approximately 2,900 residential customers as well as 350 commercial and industrial accounts.