Heavy Rains Cause Few Problems At B-N Water Treatment Plants
WGLT Sugar Creek took on excess runoff from the Bloomington-Normal Water Reclamation District's wastewater treatment plant during last weekend's storms. The head of the Bloomington-Normal Water Reclamation District says he now knows the agency's two wastewater treatment plants can survive nearly 11 inches of rain in three days. Director Randy Stein said the two plants — in west Bloomington and rural Heyworth — had only a few minor problems while processing storm and wastewater pumping through at three to four times their usual flow. “We treated our maximum capacity at both plants q...