EditorialA Plant Team Responds to a Disastrous Chlorine Leak With Quick Repairs and a Long-Term Improvements

A Plant Team Responds to a Disastrous Chlorine Leak With Quick Repairs and a Long-Term Improvements

A chlorine leak disabled the Norton water plant’s electrical and control systems. The team responded with quick repairs and big long-term process improvements.

  • Appeared in print as "Out of Disaster, a New Beginning"
  • By Jim Force
  • July 2018
  • Top Performer - Plant
A Plant Team Responds to a Disastrous Chlorine Leak With Quick Repairs and a Long-Term Improvements
A Plant Team Responds to a Disastrous Chlorine Leak With Quick Repairs and a Long-Term Improvements A Plant Team Responds to a Disastrous Chlorine Leak With Quick Repairs and a Long-Term Improvements A Plant Team Responds to a Disastrous Chlorine Leak With Quick Repairs and a Long-Term Improvements

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A Plant Team Responds to a Disastrous Chlorine Leak With Quick Repairs and a Long-Term Improvements

Amlong and the plant team received the 2017 Most Improved Water System award from the Kansas Rural Water Association.

When Jamie Amlong drove into the Norton (Kansas) Water Treatment Plant on a May morning in 2016, he had no idea he was about to confront a catastrophe.

He could smell chlorine gas and, assuming there was a small leak somewhere, he walked up to the chlorine contact building....

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