When the staff at the City of King Water Treatment Plant applied for the North Carolina Area-Wide Optimization Program Award, they never expected to win.
“When we heard about the award five years ago, we thought there was no way we would win, but we figured we would try,” says Ben Marion, plant supervisor.
The award, from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, recognizes water systems for outstanding turbidity removal. The King plant won for 2017. “We went from six to eight turbidity violations a year to none in the last three years,” Marion says. “We turned things around by
