The metropolis has achieved podium finishes within the Best Purified Water competitors, together with second place in 2022, third place in 2016 and 2020, and fifth place in 2018.
The metropolis has bottled the water and despatched it to affected areas, and The Hamiltonian even made T-shirts boasting, “Our water is healthier than yours.”
Hamilton might not be capable to say that about Fairfield any time quickly. At least, that is what Fairfield Utilities Director Adam Sackenheim believes.
With approval from the Ohio EPA, Fairfield carried out a 12-day pilot check in December and January to change its consuming water disinfection technique. They examined the idea that liquid sodium hypochlorite is superior to the presently used chlorine gasoline. According to Sackenheim, the chemistry and high quality have been constant from the manufacturing facility to the far reaches of town’s system.
Water drinkers didn’t complain in regards to the scent, look and most significantly style.
“We developed and designed a plan to change from pressurized gasoline cylinders to liquid sodium hypochlorite,” he stated. “We have plans in place and we’re having the Ohio EPA assessment these plans.”
The renovation will price about $1.5 million, and as soon as put in and accepted by the City Council, town’s water can be entered into the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting Competition.
“This is one thing Hamilton likes to put on a hat on,” Sackenheim stated. “I feel we now have an opportunity in that match.”
Fairfield and Hamilton, together with a number of different communities within the area, use the identical water supply: the Great Miami Buried Valley Aquifer. The Great Miami Buried Valley Aquifer is an underground reservoir roughly 80 ft underground that extends from Logan County to the Ohio River.
However, treating the water modifications the style. There are a number of methods to do that. Hamilton’s award-winning water is handled with chlorine dioxide, a gasoline.
Will Fairfield bottle water like Hamilton? Sackenheim stated with a smile that the choice was “to be determined.”