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Sharing a few moments in the kitchen of the Water Treatment Plant during the celebration are, from left, Clint Abbott, Kenny Wiggins, Don Bledsoe, James Trusty, Dorothy Rader, Tricia Tipton and Amy Fields. Another open house is planned for Jan. 19.

Photo by Jolanda Jansma

Sharing a few moments in the kitchen of the Water Treatment Plant during the celebration are, from left, Clint Abbott, Kenny Wiggins, Don Bledsoe, James Trusty, Dorothy Rader, Tricia Tipton and Amy Fields. Another open house is planned for Jan. 19.

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  • Sharing a few moments in the kitchen of the Water Treatment Plant during the celebration are, from left, Clint Abbott, Kenny Wiggins, Don Bledsoe, James Trusty, Dorothy Rader, Tricia Tipton and Amy Fields. Another open house is planned for Jan. 19.
  • Dorothy Rader shows the ZeeWeed membranes that are at the heart of the filtration system and are the most effective way to provide clean water to the users.
  • The shorter green storage tank of salt and the larger tank containing powdered activated carbon are on display at the City of Alcoa’s celebration honoring 50 years of filtering water for the community.
  • The above ground pipe work for the pumps that move the water through the ZeeWeed filters are seen during a tour of the City of Alcoa water filtration plant on Sam Houston Schoolhouse Road.
  • Pumps take clean water from the water treatment plant to customers in the community.
  • Tricia Tipton, left, public information officer for the City of Alcoa, and Dorothy Rader show off a picture of the old Water Treatment Plant that was located across Old Sam Houston Schoolhouse Road from the current facility.
  • Dorothy Rader, left, listens as Frank Shipman, a retired water treatment plant worker with 40 years experience, talks about the old filtration system.

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