Watershed Protectors: Water Utility Keeps Kankakee River Clean

An award-winning Illinois water treatment plant succeeds with source water protection and through public education outreach to the farm community.
Watershed Protectors: Water Utility Keeps Kankakee River Clean
The team at the Joseph Donovan Regional Water Treatment Plant includes, from left, Bruce McCue, water treatment technician; Melissa Kahoun, area manager; Don Denault, water treatment technician; Andrew Stanek, facility operator; Sean Culver, Don Rapier, Ulysses Hudson and Gary Huggins, water treatment technicians; Chris Quillman, laborer; and Mike Stone, production manager.

The team at the Joseph Donovan Regional Water Treatment Plant is serious about source water protection. Their efforts have helped make the Kankakee River one of the cleanest rivers in the Midwest.

Along with the plant’s owner, Aqua Illinois, the team in Kankakee works to...

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