Water Reliability
Averages 11.7 Million Gallons / Day
Water You Can Count On
Holland’s Water Treatment Plant pumps an average of 11.7 million gallons per day, and the reliability of your system is critical to the community’s health, safety and prosperity. This past year, we invested $430,200 in water utility capital improvement projects to increase the reliability and longevity of the equipment.
Pump Upgrades
Pushing clean water out to the community are four high service pumps, all of which are needed to meet the summertime peak demand of over 28 million gallons per day. Holland BPW regularly reviews maintenance conditions on all four, and when one showed signs of underperformance earlier this year, we opted to rebuild it proactively by replacing bearings, restoring the impeller and recoating the interior casing.
Pumping millions of gallons of water each day requires an exceptional amount of power, and to save energy we have installed variable frequency drives to help regulate the speed of each pump. This year saw the replacement of two of these drives with new, high efficiency models. We also replaced the variable frequency drive on one of our transfer pumps, which moves water into on-site storage tanks.
Pushing clean water out to the community are four high service pumps, all of which are needed to meet the summertime peak demand of over 28 million gallons per day."
This year saw the replacement of two of the water plant’s particle counters that monitor filter performance and two chlorine analyzers at pump stations in the community."
Basin Rehabilitation
After water from Lake Michigan is disinfected with chloride, it’s mixed with a custom blend of coagulants that help settle out particles and impurities. The water flows into one of four settling basins where it’s slowly flocculated (mixed), and sediments sink to the bottom. HBPW rehabilitated the #3 basin this year with a new shaft, new bearings and paddle maintenance to ensure no mechanical breakdowns can interfere with the settling process. We plan to rehabilitate the other three basins over the next few years.
Chlorine Analyzers & Particle Counters
HBPW deploys a number of analytical methods to monitor water quality across the system, both at the plant and in the service area. This year saw the replacement of two of the water plant’s particle counters that monitor filter performance and two chlorine analyzers at pump stations in the community. These replacements increase the reliability of monitoring water quality and safety before and after it leaves the plant.