Team members at the G.C. Smith Treatment Facility and Operations Center have faced wildly fluctuating turbidity from farm runoff into the source water creek. They’ve fought their way through snowstorms and floods.They’ve overcome those obstacles and more and continue to excel, striving to provide the best water in the state to 19,000 customers, including the Hershey Foods chocolate factory and Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.The plant in Hershey, Pennsylvania, started working with the Partnership for Safe Water in 1996. In pursuing the Presidents Award in 2014, the staff had already taken steps to improve plant performance, including a
