Talk:Weston Reservoir

I'll try to get a photo this weekend LymanSchool 17:57, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

MWRA Overview

reverted changes made by anonymous because they were not supported by any references. I don't care if you "work there". If there isn't a public document that can be referenced, then the facts don't exist. The latest document I could find, that show the MWRA facilities, is a court order listed in the references. That is what the MWRA overview was based upon. Also, don't substitute [ [MWRA] ] for [ [Massachusetts Water Resources Authority|MWRA] ]. It creates a redirection. LymanSchool 16:08, 24 October 2006 (UTC)   

- - Also, MWRA now treats all water at Walnut Hill. This was because of the court order cited. Any of the open reservoirs could PROBABLY be used with no additional treatment. However, there are no available documents that state that the water could or could not be used directly, now that all of it is treated. So PLEASE don't add conjecture or original research. If you find a new document, cite it and rewrite the text to show the new information. LymanSchool 17:40, 24 October 2006 (UTC) - - The MWRA overview keeps being edited with incorrect, undocumented information by some anonymous person. For instance, http://www.mwra.com/04water/html/watsys.htm shows that the new Carroll Treatment Plant is fed from the Wachusett, not the other way around. Anonymous is obviously a know-it-all that cannot even spell Carroll. I do not like my entries being screwed up in this manner with bogus information from anonymous persons. Therefore, I am through with this entry.LymanSchool 00:22, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Water from the CWTP goes directly into the covered distribution reservoirs at Norumbega, Loring Road and the High Fells (and will go to a new covered reservoir at the Blue Hills upon completion) without seeing daylight. There is no CWTP water currently sent to the open reservoirs (Spot Pond Norumbega, Weston, Fells) although it could be in the event of a failure of the MWWST via the Hultman Aqueduct and/or the Weston Supply Mains. The Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule prohibits storing treated water in open reservopirs. The Town of Winchester takes water directly from Spot Pond on a seasonal basis, but it goes directly to their own treatment plant.

When the Weston, Norumbega and High Fells open reservoirs were in service, water was treated with gaseous chlorine at the Norumbega and the High Fells. All of the treatment equipment at both of these sites has been removed and the MWRA no longer uses gaseous chlorine at any of its facilities and would not revert to it under any circumstances.

The Sudbury System, consisting of the Sudbury, Framingham Nos. 1, 2 and 3 and Chestnut Hill could be activated using the Sudbury Aqueduct, but the treatment apparatus for this system (consisting of a chlorination station at Leland Street in Framingham) was removed from service in the 1970s. The water quality in Framingham Nos. 2 and 3 is bad enough so that one of them was removed from service in 1931. The emergency would have to be catastrophic before Nos. 2 and 3 would be used and then it would only be for fire protection. The MWRA SOPs for the use of the Sudbury Aqueduct, Chestnut Hill, Sudbury and Framingham No. 1 reservoirs include a boil order and the use of Mobile Disinfection Units at designated locations to add chloramine. This system was used for a few weeks in 1980 and the water quality was very bad.