Benton Waterworks

Benton Waterworks Drinking Water Report Info
Our Mission The crucial duty of Benton's Public Utility Commission is to furnish its clients with effectively oversaw and worked electric, water and wastewater services at focused rates and to deliberately build up and keep up a procedure for gathering flow needs, however address the future requests the City's foreseen development may put on the system. Water Department Mission - Benton Utilities Water Department's Mission is to secure the water asset, treat the water to guarantee that it is sheltered and clean, redesign and keep up the circulation system to give a plentiful inventory of safe clean drinking water to occupants and organizations at a reasonable cost. About the Water Department – The chief of the Benton Utilities Water Distribution Dept. is Dewayne Hood. He and his staff are in charge of executing the day by day exercises in the Water Dept., and planning these with the Benton Utilities General Manager. The Benton Utilities Water Dept. serves private, business, modern and ace metered clients in the City of Benton and Saline County. The Public Utilities Commissioners and workers of the office are committed to high system trustworthiness and outstanding client assistance. Proceeding with instruction for our workers, in the field of water cleaning and water dispersion sets us up to meet ebb and flow and future government and state guideline and accommodate the future water supply requirements for the City of Benton. So as to keep up a consistent stock of water to our clients, the Water Distribution System faculty are in charge of the fix, support and establishment of meters, services, mains, fire hydrants and valves while the Water Purification staff works ceaselessly to guarantee a protected and consumable drinking water stockpile is promptly accessible to all clients. At the Benton Water Purification Plant, we endeavor to meet all guidelines and guidelines set by the Environmental Protection Agency Safe Drinking Water Act. Up until this time, I think we have been fruitful in this undertaking. It is our objective, to give the Citizens in Benton and the remote regions of Saline County with the most ideal water. This has been our objective since the center of 1916, and will keep on being our objective for a long time to come. The Public Utilities Commissioners and representatives of this office are committed to magnificent water quality and praiseworthy administrative consistence, and our faculty work 24 hours per day/7 days per week to guarantee this. There are three significant parts in an open water system: (1) Water Source or Supply (2) Water Purification and (3) Water Distribution The Benton Utilities Water Purification Plant is in charge of the initial two segments. The first is the wellspring of water supply, which is generally a stream, a lake, repository, or a mix of them. The second is cleaning offices that settle, channel, and synthetically decontaminate crude water to consent to the Federal measures in the Safe Drinking Water Act. The third is the conveyance system comprised of the systems of for the most part underground pipes that convey water to homes, business and different clients. Plant Information – The treatment plant is an ordinary surface water treatment plant with a limit 13 million gallons for each day (mgd). The water created meets and surpasses all Safe Drinking Water Standards. The typical every day stream is around 5 mgd normal with a greatest stream to date is 10.75 mgd. Lab - Our lab can run TOC, Chlorine, Ph, Turbidity, Alkalinity and numerous other water tests, and this testing is finished at regular intervals 24 hours per day. SCADA System – Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System, this system empowers us to control the plant, siphons, and water tanks. It has the abilities of remotely opening the doors at Lake Norrell, from the plant. It likewise keeps up a total recorded log of capacities relating to these activities.