Articles About Village Water and Wastewater

• Keep on truckin’

  By Reilly DixonSeptember 1, 2022

  

  Amid the sunny skies and clement weather of late summer, area youngsters and their families were treated with the opportunity to get up close and personal with fleets of emergency and service vehicles at the Touch-a-Truck event on Friday, Aug. 26.

• Mechanical failure causes sludge spill

  By Reilly DixonJune 7, 2022

  

  On Saturday, May 28, around 6 p.m., a mechanical failure at the Village’s municipal water and wastewater treatment plant led to nearly 750 gallons of sludge spilling out of the facility.

• Yellow Springs buys sludge press

  By Reilly DixonMarch 23, 2022

  

  The Village of Yellow Springs is now the proud owner of a nine-ton, seven-foot-tall sludge press. Its purpose? Simply put, to squeeze out any remaining water from the biosolids that run through our municipal water and wastewater treatment plant.

• Plan to protect local drinking water updated

  By Megan BachmanApril 19, 2018

  

  An update the Village of Yellow Springs Wellhead Protection Plan, first passed in 2001, features new strategies to protect the aquifer that is the source of local drinking water.

• New setting for water softeners

  By Megan BachmanJanuary 26, 2018

  

  With the Village of Yellow Springs’ new $7.2 million water plant now online, residents should adjust their water softeners to a new setting — 15 grains per gallon.

• Council nears water softening vote

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 2, 2015

  

  Village Council is close to approving a water softening component to its proposed new water plant, slated for construction in 2016.