WATER DEPARTMENT

(217) 532-2163

The City of Hillsboro constructed their first water filtration plant in 1926. The Hillsboro Water Department is staffed 24 hours a day 365 days a year. The treatment plant is a surface supply plant which has a capacity of approximately 2.5 million gallons a day. Water is taken from a combination of two lakes; Lake Glenn Shoals and Old Hillsboro Lake. Water is treated with coagulants; for sedimentation removal, chlorine for disinfection, fluoride for healthy teeth, and ammonia to control disinfection by products. It is then stored in a 80,000 gallon underground storage area to be pumped to customers and to the two storage water towers.

The Water Plant also provides for the Villages of Taylor Springs, Schram City, Coffeen, Graham Correctional Institution and the Montgomery County Rural Water District.

The Water Superintendent is Roger Fath who has a class A water operator's license. The plant is also staffed with 5 other operators; those with Class A: Dick Elam and John Laurent, those with a class C: Greg Tuggle and Tim Elliott, Class D: Clark Cameron.  Meters are read by Kyle Meyer who also fills in as an operator.

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Dick Elam, Chief Operator	Roger Fath, Superintendent