Twenty years ago, construction work began on a new water treatment plant that, under the auspices of Public Wholesale Water Supply District 18, was designed to treat water from Banner Creek Reservoir west of Holton for use by water customers in both the city and Jackson County Rural Water District 3. Since its completion about a year later, the water plant has seen only a few operational changes, the most significant being a switch from its original membrane filtration system to a more traditional sand filtration system, according to Holton Water and Sewer Superintendent Dennis Ashcraft, who also oversees daily operations at the PWWSD 18 plant southwest of Holton. And even though changing state and federal rules and regulations regarding water treatment plants continue to force changes in the way things are done, Ashcraft said PWWSD 18 continues to keep up with those changes and provide the best water to the more than 3,500 served by the district in both Holton and RWD 3.
Source: Holton Recorder
