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Show Centerville wins award By TOM HARALDSEN Clipper Correspondent CENTERVILLE The Centerville Water System has been named winner of the Operations and Maintenance Achievement Award for large cities in Utah by the Utah Safe Drinking Water Committee. In just the second year of the award's existence, Centerville beat every other community with populations exceeding 10,000 that had applied for the award. City officials will receive the award Monday afternoon in the Governor's Gover-nor's Board Room at the state capitol. Public Works Director Randy Randall, whose department boasts a staff of water employees who are all certified by the state, stated, "I think it means that Centerville City is verj progressive in its efforts to protect and provide culinary water both now and in the future. ' City administrator David Hales praised Randall and his staff for their "excellent job in all facets of our water system." He said that as part of the application for consideration, con-sideration, Centerville needed to complete a 20-plus page report detailing the size of the systems throughout the city, the procedures used for operating and maintaining it, safety programs, procedures for 1 curtailing backflow, and so forth. I Randall also credited the willing- j ness of Centerville's citizens to approve ap-prove a raise in water rates for purposes pur-poses of repairing and replacing culinary waterlines in the city as critical to the awards process. "It showed the committee that all in Centerville are willing to do what it takes to provide the safest culinary water in Utah," he said. The week of May 5-1 1 has been designated National Safe Water Week. The annual award was designed by the Utah Department of Health to judge water quality, facility facili-ty operations and maintenance, administrative ad-ministrative management and operations, and maintenance practices prac-tices of systems in Utah. In Centerville's case, the ground water category in which the city won its award, included systems with no treatment, simple disinfection, disinfec-tion, simple stabilization, simple fluoridation and systems which buy water. As part of the application, photos of facilities were included by Centerville staff. A review of the six wells within the city, and their production, was also part of the evaluation. |
