LEVEL CROSS —
Deep River water could be flowing from household taps within a month.
That’s the news members of the Piedmont Triad Regional Water Authority board of directors received last week during its regular meeting at the new water treatment facility on Adams Farm Road.
In fact, the facility has been “making water” for three or four weeks in preparation for certification procedures by the state.
“We’re working through the bugs,” said Joe McGougan, engineer at the site. He said the raw water pumps and general treatment plant were working well. Production has been at 3 million gallons per day, about a quarter of capacity.
“We feel very good about the quality of the water,” he said, adding that the goal is to have the best water in the state.
McGougan said with final preparations being completed, the plant should be ready for state certification within the next two weeks. After that, it could be another couple of weeks before the first treated water is sent to customers.
But don’t expect all six government bodies partnering in the Randleman Dam and Regional Reservoir to come on at once. McGougan explained that it’ll be a gradual process before full capacity is reached.
“All stations have to work in harmony,” he said.
Partners in the Authority are Greensboro, High Point, Archdale, Jamestown, Randleman and Randolph County.
John Kime, executive director of the Authority, said water has been pumped to the High Point system so staff members can “look to see what issues to resolve. It’s a process (with each locality).”
McGougan then took the board members on a tour of the treatment plant, which has a capacity of 12 million gallons per day that can be expanded to 18 million in the future.
Kime said there’s “no reason not to be really good water.” There are four processes in the treatment facility, starting with the pulsator that eliminates most of the suspended particles in the raw water.
Then there are conventional multimedia filters and membranes that further cleanse the water, with granular activated carbon completing the process by removing unwanted tastes and odor.
Groundbreaking for the Randleman Dam was in 2000 and construction of the treatment plant was started a couple of years ago. Boating on Randleman Regional Reservoir was opened to the public in the spring.
The idea of a flood-control and reservoir project was bandied about for decades before work finally began on the project. It was originally conceived as one of a series of lakes on Deep River.
Larry Penkava can be reached at (336) 625-5576 or by e-mail at lpenkava@randolphguide.com
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