On one hand it wasn’t easy switching from an old, familiar conventional water treatment plant to brand-new technology. On the other hand, it was an opportunity that comes along perhaps once in a generation — an opportunity many operators never get.So Ken Reynolds embraced the challenge with his team in the city of Alcoa, Tenn. He guided an energetic and relatively young staff in assuming control of a fully automated, SCADA-driven membrane filtration facility just across the street from the old plant. At the time it went online in 2007, it was the largest immersed membrane water plant east of the
