Metro officials say efforts are on track to repair a water-treatment plant damaged by the floods. Officials have been asking Nashvillians to limit water use until the plant – which is one of the city’s two for drinking water – comes back online at the end of May.
Metro Water Director Scott Potter says workers will soon begin refilling a nine-million gallon clean-water storage tank. It’s called the “clear-well.”
“We’ve got to start a disinfection process and that takes awhile. And then once we get the disinfection complete in the clearwell we can start disinfecting the filters, and at that point we’re really in the plant start-up phase.”
Potter says even then every system in the plant must be checked and re-checked before it’s certified for use. He says that process should be done and the plant restored at the end of the month.
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