The Indianola Water Resource Recovery Facility is online, after being under construction over the last three years, and is one of the first in the state to fully comply with DNR standards and operation requirements. Water Superintendent Rick Graves tells KNIA News the plant has much more capacity to serve Indianola residents, with the old plant only holding 2 million gallons per day before having to store water and treat it again.

“With the new plant we can go up to 6 million, then if we go over that we can store it in a 2 million gallon tank, and then if we get a major rainfall it can go through a first-in-the-state peak flow system that can treat 10 million gallons a day, so technically we can handle 16 million gallons of water a day”

For more information, tune in to today’s Let’s Talk Indianola.