The City of Baxter, located in central Minnesota, has always endeavored to deliver superior and reliable service to their customer base with a strong dose of self‐ reliance. Their 5 million gallon per day water plant is located near a middle school and the Baxter Public Utilities Water Department (Baxter) determined that the safety of on‐site sodium hypochlorite generation for water disinfection made the most sense for the community. The utility is no stranger to complex water treatment processes as it deals with high iron, manganese and naturally occurring ammonia for their chlorinated product water. So, pioneering on‐site hypochlorite generation for the state of Minnesota was not unusual for Baxter.