The City of Aberdeen sent out letters this week about a turbidity spike at the water treatment plant in mid-February. A turbidity spike is a sudden increase in the cloudiness or haziness of water, caused by a surge of suspended particles.
When turbidity spikes, the city is legally obligated to inform residents. However, there was no water boil advisory and water quality was unaffected according to city officials.
Aberdeen City Manager Dave McNeil said a faulty pump was the cause…
Plans are in place to bring in a water plant engineering expert in the coming months to help ensure something like this does not happen again.
City water treatment plant superintendent Jim Ackerman gave more details about the spike…
Ackerman says the pump failure was the cause for the spike, but he says he wants more answers as to what happened…
