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But the city's founding water plant will not be forgotten. Prairie Public Television's production Clean, Clear Water preserves the history of water use and treatment in Fargo, by documenting the history, personalities and process behind water filtration and distribution in Fargo.
Prior to building the new plant, the former water facility was deemed significant by the National Registry of Historic Places due to its physical and historical association with the development of Fargo's municipal infrastructure and the perfection of modern water treatment technology. In effect, the National Registry felt the former plant made an important contribution to community history. Since the old plant would be replaced in the building of the new water treatment plant, the North Dakota State Historical Society and the city of Fargo commissioned Prairie Public Television to document the former plant's history, as well as some of the attributes of the new water treatment facility. Clean, Clear Water does just that by telling the story of the old and the coming of the new. Fargo's new water treatment plant went online in May, increasing per-day capacity from 22.5 million gallons to 30 million gallons of water -- 86 years after the groundbreaking for the city's first filtration plant. Follow the evolution of water treatment
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For
three years, Fargo residents watched the new water treatment plant spring
up on 13th Avenue South. The building and all of its state-of-the-art
technology in water treatment replaced the city's first water treatment
plant -- a facility that served the city for 85 years.