City Council approves update to water controller

The Malta City Council last Tuesday approved the purchase of $56,875 upgrade to the broken controller at the town's water tank.

At an earlier City Council Meeting, Public Works Director James Brown told the council that the controllers at the water tower in town were not working and that City Works employees were climbing the tower to manually adjust the water pumps.

"A guy is getting a half-hour of overtime per day to run out there and check the pumps," Brown said. "They are having to climb the tower at night to make sure the pumps are working."

Brown explained that the pumps at the tower fil...