Thirty or so years ago, a big day of production was a time to celebrate for a water plant team.
“When I came here in 1986, we were proud of every day we set another record,” says Don Jensen, superintendent of water production in Highland Park, Illinois. “At that time, our plant was rated at 21 mgd, but for short periods we could exceed that and still maintain good-quality water. It was a feather in our cap to put out 24 or 26 mgd. We actually had a 28-million-gallon day.”
How times have changed! Now it’s lower production that gets the
