It doesn’t sound like a seven-year program to improve water quality and water treatment processes would make life easier for operators, yet that is exactly what happened at the Jones Ferry Road Water Treatment Plant in Carrboro, N.C.
Improvements generated by the program reduced the plant team’s operating challenges. Owned by the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA), the plant enrolled in the Partnership for Safe Water and in 2004 began working to optimize performance. That led to the Partnership’s Phase III Directors Award (2005), the Five-Year Directors Award (2010) and the rarely achieved Excellence in Water Treatment Award in May
