GAINESVILLE - Gainesville's Flat Creek Water Treatment plant, once a problem for the city, is now a second place national winner for clean water recognition presented Tuesday before City Council.
Flat Creek's management and staff got that recognition and thanks from the U.S. EPA regional chief Wayne Aronson, who said the plant excelled in wastewater management.
"This particular plant really has done an outstanding job in meeting some very stringent water limits," Aronson said.
Flat Creek won a first place regional award for what Aronson called innovative approaches by the waste water team.
"We had all sorts of problems out there a number of years ago," Mayor Bob Hamrick recalled, with waste water spillage and overflow. "We discharge into the lake and we want the purest water to be discharged and protect that great asset."
Thursday
February 6th, 2025
11:10AM
