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Quality water
is important to all of us - in our home life and business environment. HMU adheres
to all mandated and many self-imposed standards to bring quality water to Harlan.
Click here to read our 2011 Water
Quality Report.
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The City of Harlan's water is
supplied by 23 shallow wells located along the Nishnabotna River.
The existing treatment plant and equipment were updated in 1978 and
again in 1989.
Harlan's water plant is a full treatment
lime softening plant utilizing coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation,
filtration, chlorination and fluoridation. These processes
provide soft water, which saves customers in detergent bills and hard
water scale in boilers and heat exchangers.
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The average finished water test results are:
- Hardness - 133 ppm/7.6 grains
- Total Chlorine - .8 free Chlorine
- Fluoride - 1 ppm
- Iron - .02 ppm
- Manganese - .008 ppm
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Six water samples are collected monthly from rotating locations
throughout the city and are submitted to Mangold Environmental Testing Laboratories for
bacteria analysis.
Further analysis is done every three years by the State Hygienic
Laboratory and includes tests for lead and copper, volatile organic compounds and
synthetic organic compounds, per state requirements. Radiological testing is
performed every four years. Copies of all test results are available upon request.
Harlan's water is not only clean and safe for drinking, but also clear, refreshing,
and delicious.
- We serve over 2,400 residential, rural, and industrial customers.
- A 500,000 gallon water tower was added to our system in July of 2000
giving us two towers with total storage capacity of 1 million gallons.
- Clear wells on the HMU campus provide another 900,000
gallons of storage.
- Average gallons of water through our plant each day:
over 500,000
- Our staff consists of 5 licensed operators.
HMU Water Department:
Steve Dresen - Director Water/Gas- since 1990
Ron Block
- Water Systems Operation Technician - since 1992
Kevin Bissen
- Water Systems Operation Technician - since 1996
Rich Bielenberg - Water Systems
Operation Technician- since 1996
Donald Cote- Water Systems
Operation Technician - since 2006
Brian Lasher - Water Systems
Operation Technician - since 2012
Two shifts operate per day to provide complete service to our customers.
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