It just keeps getting better.That’s the watchword at the Pontiac (Illinois) Water Treatment Plant after it received a Director’s Award of Recognition from the Partnership for Safe Water for maintaining Phase III certification for 15 consecutive years.From clarification, filtration and disinfection to chemical feed, turbidity reduction, nitrate removal, source water protection and more, the improvements never stop at this 4.0 mgd (design) facility, which dates to 1893 and has been operated by Illinois American Water and its predecessors for more than a century.Tim Tuley, operations superintendent, who has been at the plant for 39 years, says a drought in 1988,
