City of Salisbury

The Department of Water Works Drinking water Division is responsible for working and maintaining the City’s two Drinking water treatment facilities, and three remote drinking water storage tanks. The town relies on ground drinking water supplies to provide drinking water to City occupants for consumption and also fire protection. The town pumps over installment payments on your 2 billion gallons of water into the water system yearly. The Water division is usually staffed by 13 dedicated team members with training and qualifications from the Maryland Division of the Environment intended for water treatment facility procedure. The Park drinking water plant is located in the town Park along East Main Street. Excellent capacity of four million gallons each day supplied from being unfaithful active wells inside the park. The Recreation area plant was built in 1926 as well as architecture is guarded under a historical reliability easement. The treatment contains pH adjustment, oxygenation, fluoridation, and disinfection. A food quality phosphate is also put in to protecting the water droits from corrosion. The Paleo water grow is located on Naylor Mill Road throughout the County leisure facility. The plant was first constructed in 1976 and has a capability of 6. five million gallons each day. There are currently two supply wells having a third well approaching online soon. The wells are drilled to a depth of 180 to two hundred feet and make use of an ancient buried water channel dating towards the ice age. The channel gives the capability of each well to function up to 4, 500 gallons per minute. Treatment includes iron and manganese removal filter systems, pH adjustment, fluoridation, disinfection and phosphate treatment. The two drinking water plants pump typically 5. 5 mil gallons a day with an average maximum day time of 8. zero million gallons each day. 5. 5 mil gallons of drinking water is stored in reservoirs at the treatment plant life and three remote control elevated storage containers (Edgemore Drive, Salisbury University and Wor-Wic) to maintain water pressure, handle peak per hour demand and open fire fighting reserves. Grow staff perform standard monitoring and screening of the water supply which includes bacteriological, metals and organics to assure drinking water quality and conformity with State and Federal rules..

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