The Eastern Municipal Water District approved a sole-source contract for automatic self-cleaning strainer filters for the Hemet Water Filtration Plant.The EMWD board’s 5-0 vote Dec. 7 awarded Boll Filter Corporation the contract to provide the filters. The filters are being pre-purchased due to an expected arrival period six months after the order is placed, and the actual replacement of the filters will occur next year.The Hemet Water Filtration Plant in the 1200 block of North Kirby Street utilizes ultrafiltration membrane technology to treat unfiltered raw water from the State Water Project which brings water from Oroville to Lake Skinner. Automatic self-cleaning strainer filters are part of the pre-treatment process; the filters screen the raw water to protect the downstream
