Further Filtration
Improvements at water treatment plant help keep City’s water top-quality
Pickerington residents may not notice a difference in their water quality when they turn their faucets on this fall, but improvements to the water filtration system will guarantee the City’s high standards are maintained.
Pickerington has five production wells in service throughout the City, providing service to 5,600 accounts and producing approximately 2 million gallons of water per day.
The water pumped from the wells flows through gravity filters for iron and manganese removal, said Utilities Plant Superintendent Glen Hacker. There are also filters for silt density index reduction and reverse osmosis for hardness reduction before the water enters the distribution system.
The $455,000 water treatment plant filtration improvements, funded through the City’s Water Fund, currently underway include maximizing the efficiency of the water infiltration system and upgrading outdated hardware and software controls that will increase the overall plant efficiency.
“The City of Pickerington continues to improve plant performance in order to provide high-quality drinking water to its residents,” Hacker said.
Work on the water treatment plant is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
