Pictured from left: Assistant Director of Operations Cal Prince, City Council Member Bob Uglum, Parks and Recreation Director John Layng, Mayor Betty Cason, Water Filter Plant Chief Operator Heath Day, City Manager David Brooks and Public Works Director Robert Moore. Not pictured: Water Filter Plant Superintendent Drew Strickland.
City of Carrollton officials held a ribbon cutting ceremony last week, officially bringing the Raymond R. Hughes Water Treatment Facility into service.
The water holding and treatment pond off Kingsbridge Road will increase Carrollton’s water security and quality and add significantly to the city’s raw water storage capacity.
“This benefits us by giving pre-settlement and more pre-treatment options and around 20 days of storage,” said Carrollton Public Works Director Robert Moore. “That helps in drought conditions and lets us choose when to pump from the river to it.”
The city will pump water from the Little Tallapoosa river intake into the pond at the far north end and draw through a screen on the south end. Gravity will deliver the water to the water treatment plant’s flash mix chamber.
The facility has been in discussion for the past 20 years. Construction started last year.
The pond is named in honor of the former owner of the property where it was built.
