The water project is well underway as some of you may have noticed. We will have periods of discolored water, along with service disruptions throughout the summer. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we undergo these needed improvements.

In previous projects we have replaced the majority of the transmission line coming from the well, which is 5 miles outside of Town. In this project we are replacing the final portion to complete that stretch. With that complete, we are moving into Town to start replacing the aging asbestos cement pipe in the distribution system.

The first phase of this work is the SE portion of Town. This is a great place to start because the existing pipe is only 4 inch, when the rest of the Town is 6 inch diameter. The upgrade in size of the pipe will double the water flow available for fire suppression.

We are also updating our telemetry system that controls our pumps and lets us monitor the system and moving to a more modern SCADA system which will allow us to monitor things more closely, maintain communications between the Water Tank, the Well, the Chlorine Vault, and bring us up to date and ready for the future.

One of the most exiting upgrades will be to our billing system. We are super excited for this upgrade. A lot of folks over the years have been asking if we have an auto pay option, and the answer unfortunately has always been no (we were super happy some years ago when we finally started taking cards).

The new system will allow you to access your account whenever you’d like, pay your bill in a multitude of different ways (including auto-pay), look at your usage and billing history, and allow us to push notifications to all of our citizens.

For us just being able to push notices about service issues, water breaks, potential for discolored water, etc. is going to be a game changer. We look forward to serving the community even more effectively through open, transparent, and non-combative communication!