Operators at the Borough of Carlisle Water Treatment Plant believe in raising the bar. That attitude propelled them through the AWWA Partnership for Safe Water program, culminating in the Excellence in Water Treatment Award in October 2010. The plant received the award at the June 2011 AWWA annual conference in Washington, D.C.
Of the 116 Pennsylvania plants taking part in the program, Carlisle was the first to complete all four phases and only the eighth in the nation to do so. “We’ve always met our regulations and in fact were well within allowable limits,” says Mike McFadden, water plant supervisor. “We
