Welcome to the City of Franklin
Clean Water Facility
Clean Water Franklin
A decade ago, the City of Franklin developed an Integrated Water Resources Plan (IWRP), a roadmap for the highest and best use of water resources in Franklin and our stewardship of the Harpeth River. Now, the City continues to move forward with the next steps for securing local water supplies for the future.
Transforming Franklin's Water Future
We can meet the community's needs by producing water that is safe to add to our water supply cycle.
Irrigation
Expand the use of reclaimed water for landscape and other irrigation
Use purified water to increase flows in the Harpeth River
Recreation
Augmentation
We can meet the community's needs by producing water that is safe to add to our water supply cycle.
As part of the Southeast Wastewater Capacity Evaluation, the Franklin Water Purification Demonstration Facility came online in Fall 2022 and operated for nine months to test and monitor advanced technologies including membrane filtration, ozonation, biofiltration, granular activated carbon, and ultraviolet light with advanced oxidation.
These proven, well-explored processes—currently utilized across the United States and around the world—are designed to work together to remove smaller and smaller physical, chemical, and microbial contaminants from the water until we are left with purified water, which is water that has been verified through monitoring to be safe for augmenting drinking water supplies.
Multi-Barrier Approach
Purified water: water that has passed through proven treatment processes and has been verified through monitoring to be safe for augmenting drinking water supplies
These steps are designed to work together to remove smaller and smaller physical, chemical, and microbial contaminants, resulting in purified water that can supplement our current water resources.
Demonstrating the effectiveness of these technologies in treating the City of Franklin’s wastewater is vital to our planning efforts, as we identify the best strategy for managing the City’s steadily increasing wastewater production. More than 180 tests were conducted at the demonstration facility every week, and the City also conducted other studies to identify options for beneficially reusing water.
The source water for the pilot was from the City’s existing reclaimed system, which is also utilized for irrigation in neighborhoods and commercial developments throughout the community. The City currently operates a water reclamation facility on Claude Yates Drive, which has been expanded and upgraded over the past several years.
A new, full-scale Clean Water Facility in southeast Franklin will be an important addition to our water infrastructure and will provide numerous benefits for Franklin residents.