Piedmont Water treatment plant goes online

  • Piedmont Water’s new treatment plant will pull water out of Lake Oconee instead of wells. MARK ENGEL/Staff
    Piedmont Water’s new treatment plant will pull water out of Lake Oconee instead of wells. MARK ENGEL/Staff
After years of taking heat from customers for the quality of drinking water it provides, the Piedmont Water Company was expected this week to start operating its new water treatment plant. The facility will pull up to two million gallons of surface water from Lake Oconee daily and distribute it to its residential and business customers in what is known as the Reynolds Water System. The 28 wells…

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