Two ribbon-cutting ceremonies, exactly two years apart, marked major changes at the City of Danville, Kentucky, 12 mgd Coldiron-Watkins Memorial Water Treatment Plant.
The first, in August 2017, highlighted a five-year project that upgraded and expanded the plant, built in 1924 and improved during the 1950s and 1960s. The second, last August, is the one that instills civic pride in Andy Tompkins, plant superintendent.
“The completion of the Splash Park on the plant site demonstrates the commitment the city made to citizens when we started our project,” Tompkins says.
Keeping a promise
Before construction could begin on the upgrade project, a popular
