The odour and taste control phase of an upgrade to the Chatham water treatment plant should be installed in late July and ready for use if there is an inversion in Lake Erie in September.
The Chatham-Kent PUC approved the $941, 890 project and Area Manager Tim Sunderland says the discolouration issue has already been dealt with.
"We've already put a system in place to address that. The taste and odour issue with the water is going to be addressed through the powder activated carbon," he says. "We want to have construction starting as soon as possible, we want to be done by the end of July. The system commissioned and up and running for our potential taste and odour issue for September."
Sunderland says there is a similar system in the Wheatley plant and that area didn't have the taste and odour problems Chatham did in 2013.