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Raw Water Quality In The New Charleston, Illinois Pump Storage Reservoir, Kevin G. Lookis
Raw Water Quality In The New Charleston, Illinois Pump Storage Reservoir, Kevin G. Lookis
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Charleston, Illinois, a city located in east-central Illinois, recently implemented a new concept in a raw water system. Due to storage capacity-sedimentation problems in the old Lake Charleston-Embarras River raw water supply, the Charleston Pump Storage Reservoir was constructed. The new system involved building a dike separating the Lake Charleston impoundment from the Embarras River. Water to increase the storage capacity of the reservoir can now be selectively pumped into the impoundment from the river.
Raw water quality in the reservoir was monitored on a weekly basis for a full year from August, 1981 to August, 1982. The levels of …