Like PRWD, Walhalla embarks on new treatment plant

The chairman for Walhalla General Government, Tjay Bagwell, predicted this week that the project to establish a new treatment plant and to make Lake Keowee the city’s source for water will take four years at the earliest and five at the latest. The taking of water samples is a process continuing under the aegis of the state Department of Health and Environmental Control. Bagwell told the annual meeting of Partners for Progress that the new plant will increase Walhalla’s capability to produce water from 2.5 million gallons a day to four million gallons a day. The new plant is to be expandable to as much as 6 MGD.