For most of each day, the Long Pond Water Filtration Facility hums along with no operators present and only one team member on call.The 8.4 mgd (design) surface water treatment plant in Falmouth, Massachusetts, relies on extensive automation and a team of five operators who, when on site for one daily shift, keep everything meticulously maintained and use lab testing as the basis for process fine-tuning.The plant is the lynchpin of a water system that serves a coastal town on Cape Cod with 33,000 year-round residents and a population that balloons to more than 100,000 during the summer tourist season.
