ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) - We're taking a closer look at the Highland Reservoir Project. This important initiative is enhancing the city's water infrastructure, improving water quality, and increasing capacity to meet the needs of the community for years to come. This project is being undertaken in order to bring the city into compliance with a federal regulation known as Long Term 2 Enhanced Water Treatment rule, or LT2 for short. This rule requires that water suppliers who have reservoirs where they store drinking water, to do one of three things.  “Put a cover on that storage or some sort of cover storage like a tank two to provide additional treatment for a pathogen known as crypto peridium that chlorine does not take care of or the third option is to don’t use that storage facility any longer in the storage somewhere else,” says David Rowley, who is the manager of water production for the city of Rochester. Since 2012, the city has been operating under the terms of the Bilateral Compliance Agreement, or BCA for short.  “What this compliance agreement is it’s technically a three-way agreement between the city, the Monroe County Department of Health, and the New York State Department of health. The health departments have the authority granted to them by the EPA to enforce these federal regulations,” says Rowley. There are a number of solutions that the city is currently debating between.  “Those range from the potential decommissioning of Highland Reservoir in providing redundant storage in a different location in the city to adding a treatment that’s called ultraviolet light disinfection that solution would require us to build an additional building somewhere in Highland Park,” Rowley says. All in all, Rowley’s main message to the public is that there will be change, no matter what solution is ultimately chosen. “One thing that we’ve been very careful to explain to everybody when we talk about doing this project is no matter what option we choose for LT2 compliance. It’s going to represent some sort of change to the aesthetic in Highland Park even if we just shut the reservoir off tomorrow and so we’re not using it anymore. The water quality in Highland Reservoir would be dramatically different than it is now,” says Rowley. Rowley says what the city really wants to know from the community is feedback on what they think is important about the park and how they feel about the various options that could be potential solutions. Click here to learn more.