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Water Treatment Plant

The Water Treatment Plant is located at 9722 Water Plant Road, Baxter TN 38544

Plant Superintendent: Rodger Phillips

Phone: (931) 858-2646

 

We have approximately 250 miles of water lines with the largest being two 30" transmission lines from the water treatment plant to town. We have 5 water storage tanks ( 1 elevated and 4 ground storage tanks) with a total storage capacity of 19.5 million gallons.  For each of the last several years we have been replacing approximately 2 miles of old and/or under sized lines. Also prior to the Public Works Department repaving city streets we have been replacing all of the old service lines. This has greatly reduced the frequency and number of patches being required in newly repaved streets.

Water Treatment Plant Information:

A. Source and Flow Information:

The Water Treatment plant get its source water from Center Hill Lake (Mine Lick Creek). It is designed to treat 15 million gallons per day (MGD). Even though it can treat 15 MGD the pumping capacity is only 13.86 MGD. In 2004 the average daily flow pumped to customers was 10.487 MGD.

B. Water Quality Information:

The following is a 12 month average for the finished water quality as it leaves the treatment plant (all units are in milligrams/liter unless noted otherwise):

pH: 8 std. units Turbidity: 0.08

Alkalinity: 66. Hardness: 76

Iron: 0.012 Manganese: 0.013

Fluoride: 0.86

Water Plant Pumping Capacity Improvements: This is an upgrade of the raw water intake pumping capacity as well as the capacity to pump water to town (finished water pumps). This will allow the treatment plants full 15 MGD treatment capacity to be utilized.