CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio – In Service committee meeting Tuesday night, Circleville Director or Public Utilites Jim Stanley, Brian Frost Director of Public Services and consultants with Strand Associates laid out a stark reality: the city’s 62-year-old water treatment plant is nearing the end of its useful life, new federal PFAS (“forever chemical”) regulations are looming, and decades of below-inflation rate increases have left the water and sewer funds unable to keep pace with needed repairs.The centerpiece of the discussion was a proposed $56 million rebuild of the water treatment plant using reverse-osmosis membrane technology — a project that consultants say will deliver dramatically softer water (reducing hardness from ~380 mg/L to 120–130 mg/L), eliminate the need for many home water soften

See Full Page