Case Study
When the Power Goes Out, the Clock Starts Ticking
When the grid goes down, how does a water company keep 36 water towers full? For Rathbun Regional Water Association (RRWA), a provider of water to southeast Iowa, KOHLER standby power kicks in. “Our two KOHLER backup generators — one at the caisson pump building that brings in our raw water and the other at our treatment plant — take over so we can keep processing water,” says Rod Witt, RRWA in Centerville, Iowa. “And the KOHLER units get t