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Tim Goble, water treatment plant manager, looks ahead to a major plant upgrade that will add two filters and retrofit the floc basins with variable-speed drives.
The eastern Kentucky city of Prestonsburg sits in a valley of the Appalachian foothills, and from there, the water utility’s pipes stretch out to surrounding areas and across county lines.
“We’re one of the biggest small-town utilities that I know of,” says Donald Compton,...