Anyone who gets water from the Catawba River will have to follow restrictions because of our drought conditions, so Channel 9’s Joe Bruno got an inside look at how this is impacting operations at water treatment plants.
At the Franklin Water Treatment Plant in northwest Charlotte, workers are paying attention to how they’re using the water that comes in.
“We’re fortunate within our watershed or from our water sources, it’s consistent water quality, and so the treatment process doesn’t change very much. What does change is how we manage the resource itself,” said Micah Burgess, the utilities manager at the plant…