In the third week of June 2019 , the new water treatment plant for the City of Norman , Oklahoma , will come online . It is breaking new ground in many ways , and will be the first in the state to use noninvasive UV as its primary means of disinfection
Keeping a large population supplied with clean , reliable drinking water is a complex business . The State of Oklahoma has a reputation for extreme and erratic weather , but the City of Norman , located around 20 miles south of Oklahoma City , averages about 38 inches of rainfall a year , so it is not exactly arid . All the same , it relies on a variety of different sources to satisfy the demands of an estimated 122,000 citizens .
In its earlier days , the city , which was first settled towards the end of the 19th century , relied on wells sunk into the Garber-Wellington aquifer , a large sandstone formation lying
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