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Amlong and the plant team received the 2017 Most Improved Water System award from the Kansas Rural Water Association.
When Jamie Amlong drove into the Norton (Kansas) Water Treatment Plant on a May morning in 2016, he had no idea he was about to confront a catastrophe.
He could smell chlorine gas and, assuming there was a small leak somewhere, he walked up to the chlorine contact building....