Photo Album Nortonville PWSID 0540328 AI1900 Hopkins County May 5th, 2006

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Photo Album Nortonville PWSID 0540328 AI1900
Hopkins County May 5th, 2006

• by L. Peyton Adams
• Madisonville Regional Office
• Kentucky Division of Water

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Side of clearwell facing the plant with the hatch
above the pumps. Wells, chlorine, fluoride, and
intake for high service lines all enter and leave
from the NW corner of the unbaffled clear well.
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Water plant history painted over for the 1935
water plant building.
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Fenced unbaffled clear well vulnerable to air
from the aquifer making it to the plant tap.
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Newly painted high service pumps and valves plus
the floor drain and sink drain going to the drain
line. It would be best to find the overflow and
discharge point, check its screening, and ensure
sinks go to treatment at source or to city sewer.
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The old high service pump taken off line.
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The controllers showing the pressure gauge
feedback on height in the tank.
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The dialer system for alarms. The operator is
going to check to see if the dialer has been
updated to call his number or the last operators
phone.
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New continental hydrodyne used for fluoride. The
new sewer plant also has a HACH spec unit that
gives a good backup capability. Tests run in
front of me during the inspection were correctly
run.
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Operators daily documentation for plant readings
to go on to the MOR.
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The plant tap sink where daily tests are done at
the entry point into the distribution system.
Note air in the lines coming from an unbaffled
clear well.
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Well number 1 with an air relief valve that has
no foot valve on the tubing so it drains back to
the screen after pumping. Air has been documented
in the aquifer.
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Fluoride meter on solution tank
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High service pumps and master meter in green not
calibrated in years. Only 77 of the water pumped
is accounted for in sales. The rest brings in no
revenue. Service meters have not been changed out
in over 10 years. Simply having low flow
conditions not being read can miss water revenue.
Some homes were found on a single meter and not
individual meters missing the revenue from the
flat fee a month. Letters have been sent to add
tap on fees for individual meters per service
connection.
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The master meter for the plant
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The fluoride solution tank by well 1 and the
wiring for the controllers. Be sure all wiring is
per electrical code for safety.
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Air in the plant tap newly poured.
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Air in plant tap beginning change.
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Plant tap after 7 seconds of air rising to the
top and leaving water.
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Water at seals running on the floor. Operator
planning on putting in seal drains piped directly
to the floor drain to dry up the floor surface
for safety.
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No cover on electrical plug in and alarm system
plug in.
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Dual feed chlorine feeders set up with individual
scales on 150 pound tanks.
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NW scale for chlorine on the wall tared and
reading the pounds of chlorine based upon the
difference in weight of the tank contents!
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NE scale reading the tank on the right viewed
from the door. The chlorine room safety would
increase with a reinforced glass door equipped
with a crash bar for exit in case of a leak.
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Old connections in the chlorine room of uncertain
power connection. Any old connections should be
removed. Any wiring should meet electrical codes.
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The fan activated by a manual switch to the right
of the entrance door pulling air from low to the
ground as needed for chlorine gas which is
heavier than air.
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Note chained tanks on scales with a system that
as one tank empties it automatically starts
feeding from the next tank on the scales.
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The door to the chlorine room with the switch for
the fan to the upper right. Note water plant is
surrounded by a cemetery. Across the street there
appear to be lots being sold on top of the area
where the raw water lines from wells 2,and 4
cross to reach the clear well.
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Unbaffled clearwell fenced with a locked hatch.
Feed lines are all on the north side of the clear
well. Chlorine, then fluoride, then high service
pump intake, and finally well 1 are on this side.
Around the corner well 2 and 4 combine to enter
the clearwell. It may be short circuiting when
everything is pumping with little time for air to
leave the system.
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Chained and labeled as empty 150 pound cylinders
on the left viewed from the door for inventory
management.
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Full chained and labeled cylinders for inventory
management. Operator plans for adding another
chain and connections to the cylinder in the
corner pinned in and held by the other two tanks.
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Unpainted particle board with line coming from
well number one to the clearwell. This is the
back wall of the plant with the fluoride feeder
just inside it. It would be good to upgrade this
panel and paint it to match the plant walls.