Norton Enhanced Spring Water Flushing Program

Press release from the Town of Norton:

As previously discussed this first flushing program with the New Water Treatment Facility online will be aggressive. Our flushing crews will be attempting to remove many years of iron and manganese sediment from our distribution system.

This approach will be noticeably different from the “usual” uni-lateral flushing program. We will operate two separate flushing crews in different areas of town using our booster pumps to move water from our ground storage tanks. This will flush the larger water mains and we will cover large areas of town with multiple flushing sites that can handle the discharge of large volumes of water.

Once these large water mains are flushed we will transition to the smaller water mains.During these operations as with past flushing programs, residents can and should be prepared to experience changes in water pressure and quality. These flushing operations will be mainly performed during the evening hours to limit the disturbances and disruptions to the customers. Should any area experience any lingering effects they will be addressed by less aggressive flushing during the daytime.

Please remember Norton has a looped distribution system, operating gate valves and flowing hydrants can change the “normal” direction of water and create a disturbance in an area away from the actual flushing.We operate the water gate valves to limit the amount of wasted water and create a uni-lateral flush. Doing this is the best and quickest approach to clean the distribution system.Beginning Wednesday, April 29th

Crew # 1 Shelly Rd

Goff, Allen

Pratt, Ellis

West Main St.

Old Colony Rd.

Oak St.

Walker St.

North Worcester St.

Richardson Ave.

The side roads off of these main roads will be flushed after the larger mains have been completed.

Beginning Sunday May 3rdWe will add our second crew and begin flushing:

Crew # 2Mansfield Ave.

Arnold Palmer Blvd.

Freeman St.

Young Ave.

Pond St.

Reservoir St.

The streets listed are in no particular order, flushing will continue Sunday – Thursday nightly until completed.

As usual please call our office if continued issues linger at your residence at 508-285-0280. Due to the pandemic, we have limited staffing and urge you to follow prompts and leave a message with the street address so our technicians can properly take care of the issues accordingly.

NORTON WATER COMMISSION

This press release was produced by the Town of Norton. The views expressed here are the author’s own.