January 22, 2016
- By Paul Joseph, Paragon Communications News Director –
Water is flowing from the Canute water field to Clinton Lake. It’s official, now, after waiting a number of months.
Last week, Lonnie Teel, the inspector and project manager for many of Clinton’s water projects said testing was completed last week and was successful.
Today, Teel says that crews need to install an ammonia and chlorine treatment system to the Canute line before it’s piped into the 24-inch water line from Clinton Lake that runs from the Clinton water treatment plant to the City of Clinton. That project is still in the works, but for now, the line from Canute is finished.
Under its contract with Canute, Clinton is obligated to buy 500-thousand gallons of water per day for the next 40 years. Clinton began paying for the water March 1 and now it’s here and flowing into Clinton Lake and will be until the chlorine and ammonia unit is installed on the end of the Canute water line. After that, Canute water will be sent directly to Clinton.
This is just one piece of the many pieces to get Clinton a healthy supply of water in the long term, however, Teel agrees, this is a big piece.
Teel says the next big piece is finishing up the two water wells at the Riverside Golf Course in Clinton, the east well and the west well.
One of the last big pieces is the still – yet to be built – new water treatment plant. Those plans are still in the court of the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality. The first piece of the water plant construction that needs approval is its disposal well for the reverse osmosis system. Teel says he’s waiting for DEQ’s approval on the plans for the disposal well.
Clinton’s new water improvement plan which includes drilling new wells and building a new water treatment plant will run right at $29.5-million-dollars.
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