Chlorine gas makes a "pretty good tasting water"

Chlorine in drinking water is used as disinfectant to kill or inactivate pathogenic organisms. It is known to be very effective against bacteria, viruses, and protozoa, cysts, and spores. Chlorine disinfection has been a major part of water treatment process for a long time. In water treatment process - unless water filters are needed - disinfection is usually the last process to ensure that the remaining bacteria that escape sedimentation process are destroyed. There are different forms of chlorine disinfection such as chloramines, chlorine dioxide, and chlorine gas.

Chlorine gas has been used successfully as the primary source of disinfectant in small water treatment plants because it's less costly than other forms of disinfection. Chlorine gas is also simple to operate and it's more stable. Chlorine gas can be generated onsite, or it can be shipped to the treatment plant. According to one estimate, more than 90% of drinking water treatment plants in the United States are using chlorine gas as a primary form of disinfection.

It is therefore no wonder that in 2007 the Village of Montpelier in Ohio won the gold medal for the world's Best Municipal Drinking Water. According to www.pollutionequipment.com, the award was given by the annual international water Tasting Event in Berkeley Springs, W.V. According to the report the village won in 2003 and 2006.

Mr. Bill Blakely, the water treatment plant's superintendent, declared the water as "pretty good tasting water." This is as result of the changes that were made to the water treatment plant that was built in 1939. Pollution Equipment concluded that "it is evident that gas chlorine is the Village of Montpelier's choice disinfection product" that resulted in their "good tasting water".