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Responsibilities and Functions:
The Golden Water Plant uses flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, and chemical treatment of water diverted from Clear Creek to produce potable water which meets or exceeds all E.P.A. and Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment standards. Golden was the second plant in the state to receive the “Directors Award” from the “Partnership for Safe Water;” a voluntary program sponsored by the EPA and American Water Works Association. 

On a hot summer day Golden citizens use enough treated, potable water to cover 24 football fields one foot deep in water; in the winter the usage drops to about 7 football fields worth a day.

Personnel:
Eight full time employees comprise the staff at the plant. We are all licensed by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment as Water Treatment Plant Operators. In order to ensure optimal water quality and prompt response to any problem in the treatment process, the plant is staffed 24 hours/day every day of the year.

The water plant is computer controlled, the central processor tracks over 2,000 signals, ensuring optimized treatment. The computer signals the Operator on shift whenever any item requires Operator intervention.

Technical Overview:
The City of Golden water plant is a conventional plant using Clear Creek for source water. It has a nominal filtration capacity of 15 MGD and has 2 empty filter boxes already constructed which will easily allow filtration capacity expansion to 20 MGD.

We feed Potassium Permanganate to oxidize Manganese, Ferric Sulfate as a primary coagulant, a nonionic polymer as a floc aid (as well as a filter aid), chlorine bleach for disinfection, and Caustic Soda for pH and corrosion control. Computer control of our distribution system is comprised of 4 pump stations, and 9 tanks with 12 MG of storage capacity (ranging in elevation from 5680 to 6400).

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