Shades Mountain Water Treatment Plant Tackles Turbidity, Disinfection

An Alabama water treatment plant achieves excellence despite extreme turbidity fluctuations, disinfection byproduct challenges and a complex distribution system.
Shades Mountain Water Treatment Plant Tackles Turbidity, Disinfection
Shades Mountain plant senior superintendent Darin Roberson, left, and chief operator Wendell Cox.

Bigger isn’t always better, unless you’re the Shades Mountain Water Treatment Plant.

This 80 mgd facility in Birmingham, the largest water plant in Alabama, has won numerous awards, including the 2014 Best Operated Plant from the Alabama/Mississippi Section AWWA. The...

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