Medicine Park - A new water storage tank hopes to be a cure all for problems an old one brought about just over a year ago when a tank in Medicine Park started to leak chlorine. That leak ended up killing hundreds of fish and nearly all the underwater wildlife in the area. Ever since, the City of Lawton has been working to remedy the problem.

It's a 2.5 million gallon tank. But before the water goes out to all Lawton consumers, workers are making finishing touches to the tank.

"This is Lawtonka water that is treated in our medicine park treatment plant and it is stored in this tank before it is pumped into the distribution system in the City of Lawton," said Superintendent Of Water and Sewer Afsaneh Jabber.

The $2.5 million storage tank is a big step-up from the last one. And city officials said this one won't allow a toxic leak like the last tank did.

"It's a new tank with a new design and we have a subdrain installed under the tank and to remove any groundwater from the area so there will be no problem with the structure itself."

Since Lawton citizens use an average of 18 million gallons of water a day, the city can't wait to get this storage tank up and running.

"It gives us reliability because we have storage. We have to have storage for emergency situation you have to have storage in case of a fire. But most of the time if there is a broken main somewhere you have to have at least 12 hours of storage."

The city said it will take about 2 more weeks to get the empty area around the tank filled in with dirt and rocks. Once the land is flat around the tank, the city will start distributing the water out of the Medicine Park water storage tank.