Chester Metro

Chester Metro Drinking Water Report Info
The Chester Metropolitan District is a Special Purpose District made by the SC lawmaking body in 1963, and fills in as the public water supply authority in Chester County. CMD conveys water along SC Highway 9, SC Rt. 99, the US 21 hallway, and to the regions of Chester, Fort Lawn, Great Falls, and Richburg. Surface Water Treatment Plant The framework is provided by a 7.2 million gallon for each day (MGD) surface water treatment plant situated on the Catawba River at Fort Lawn on the eastern side of the county. The treatment plant is as of now working at around 42% of capacity (3.012 mgd) for normal day conditions. Be that as it may, top day conditions have moved toward 60% of plant capacity, with a most extreme day stream of 4.014 MGD being siphoned. Conveyance System A 24? pipeline supplies water to the Highway 9 hall as far west as the City of Chester. A 16? pipeline supplies water toward the southern piece of the county and the Town of Great Falls along Highway 99. A system of littler pipelines supplies the created segments of the county. 5.7 Million Gallons of Storage is given by two 1 million gallon ground stockpiling tanks on high ground along Highway 9 at Rodman (between I-77 and Chester), raised tanks in Richburg, Chester, and Great Falls, and clear well stockpiling at the channel plant in Fort Lawn. Water Quality Water quality created at the Fort Lawn surface water plant dependably meets drinking water guidelines built up by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC). So as to keep our water quality standards at their most elevated, CMD has a few projects set up to assistance keep the framework new. Month to month flushing and testing is done to guarantee sufficient chlorine residuals in the lines, which keep them purified. Other water quality-related projects incorporate the yearly hydrant flushing and testing, the semiannual valve working out, and the yearly chlorine burnout. Snap HERE TO VIEW OUR MOST RECENT WATER QUALITY REPORT! Unwavering quality of Water Service CMD has a set up record of framework dependability. The Fort Lawn treatment plant has encountered just 2 shutdowns in the previous 12 years, with no loss of administration to any ventures. No modern clients have encountered a dissemination framework loss-of-administration scene since 1995.