Treatment Improvements

Citizens Water continues to make a number of critical capital upgrades to improve the drinking water system. These upgrades include regulatory upgrades necessary to meet enhanced drinking water standards coming online in 2012 and providing an additional barrier against cryptosporidium.

T.W. Moses Water Treatment Plant

This 35 year-old surface water treatment facility draws raw water from nearby Eagle Creek Reservoir and is capable of treating up to 24 million-gallons-per-day. Since 2009, significant upgrades have been underway at T.W. Moses, including the addition of an ultraviolet disinfection facility, a new Actiflo® Carb process, which makes more efficient use of power-activated carbon in the treatment process, and new residuals handling processing. The new residuals processing will allow the utility to better manage discharges to the sanitary sewer, reducing the load on Citizens wastewater treatment facilities.

The results of these upgrades will deliver better quality water, improved disinfection capabilities with fewer byproducts, and improved abilities to remove Atrazine, taste and odor causing compounds, and micro-pollutants.

Fall Creek and White River North

EPA's enhanced treatment regulations, which become effective in April 2012, will also require upgrades at both the Fall Creek and White River North treatment facilities.  Design of those improvements is currently underway, with construction at both facilities to begin in 2011 and be completed in the first quarter of 2012.