Water sanitation system, new to North America, to be tested in Avon Lake

Water, salt and electricity is not a combination that most would think of as safe, let alone productive.

But Avon Lake Regional Water is pursuing a plan, the first of its kind in North America, to take care of its water disinfectant needs in-house with just that simple combination.

The utility is in the process of switching its water disinfectant system from one based on chlorine gas to relying on sodium hypochlorite.

When that switch was publicized in March, Regional Water’s Chief Utilities Executive Robert Munro said that sodium hypochlorite is much safer for both the staff at the utility and the general public.

But another major advantage of sodium hypochlorite is its relatively simple composition of water, sodium (salt) and electricity.