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Gatlinburg staff outline plan to boost water-plant output to 3 million gallons per day; pilots and permits in hand
Summary
City officials and engineers from LDA Engineering presented a plan to increase the municipal water-treatment plant’s capacity from about 2 million gallons per day to roughly 3 million using membrane filtration technology; staff said permits are approved and estimated the construction budget at about $5 million.
City Manager Greg Patton and city utilities staff presented a proposed expansion of the Gatlinburg water-treatment plant designed to raise nominal production from about 2 million gallons per day (MGD) to roughly 3 MGD.
Dale (city utilities staff) told the board the plant, originally built in 1950 and upgraded in 1965, has been operating “very well” but is at or near maximum production much of the time. “We’re producing about 2,000,000 to 2,100,000 gallons a day,” Dale said, and the city supplements peak weekend demand by buying water from Pigeon Forge. Dale said increasing plant output by an additional 1,000,000 gallons a day would “greatly reduce what we’ll need to buy from Pigeon Forge.”
Engineers from LDA Engineering said the planned increase is achievable largely by replacing conventional rapid-sand filtration with newer ceramic-plate membrane filtration in the existing footprint. Corey Newman, principal engineering client-service lead,…
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