“Just because it is written doesn’t make it true in the field.”
So says David Montgomery, treatment services superintendent of the Plum Creek Water Purification Facility in Castle Rock, Colorado, reflecting on the new advanced treatment processes in operation at the town’s 6 mgd plant.
Adds Tim Lambert, water treatment supervisor and operator in responsible charge, “Sample, test, verify and repeat, particularly with advanced processes which require draw-down testing, flowmeter verification and chemical dosing confirmations.”
Montgomery, Lambert and the Plum Creek team are successfully operating the new facility, designed for future direct potable reuse, but now operating as an indirect reuse plant. “Our
