Lyon County Utilities is responsible for providing safe drinking water to the approximately 13,000 residents of Dayton and Mound House. The arid region derives its drinking water from multiple groundwater wells throughout the Dayton Valley. Only disinfection is required as all primary and secondary water quality standards are met without the need for filtration or advanced treatment. Historically, Lyon County Utilities applied 12.5% bulk sodium hypochlorite for disinfection at each of their well sites, and was resigned to the operating challenges faced resulting from use of the high strength solution. Lyon County routinely reaches temperatures near 100oF during the summer which leads to substantial degradation of the bulk hypochlorite. Leaks were commonplace in the disinfection piping often requiring time consuming repairs. Additionally, delivery of the hypochlorite solution to the remote well sites proved cumbersome and inefficient for the operations staff. Lyon County initially tried on‐site hypochlorite generation (OSHG), but found the original system unreliable.