Bond OK to finance new water treatment plant

LONGMONT — In 1934, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president of the United States. Hitler became Fuhrer. The Dionne sisters — the first quintuplets to survive beyond infancy — were born in Canada.

The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) was just a glimmer in some future congressman’s eye. The federal law wouldn’t be passed for another 40 years. The 1974 law was amended in 1984 with stricter guidelines, after studies showed the nation’s drinking water quality was declining rather than improving. It was changed again in 1996.

Also 68 years ago, Longmont built its South Water Treatment Plant, one of three plants the…