Kent County Water Authority

Kent County Water Authority Drinking Water Report Info
The Kent County Water Authority and its professional staff are focused on furnishing our esteemed clients with the best, most financially savvy and dependable drinking water. We ceaselessly endeavor to embrace new and better techniques for conveying the best quality drinking water to you. As new difficulties to drinking water develop, we stay cautious in gathering these requests in our support of our clients. The Kent County Water Authority right now supplies and disseminates water benefits on a retail premise to private, business, modern and different customers inside reach of its current foundation inside Kent County and a part of Cranston, Scituate and a little zone of North Kingstown. The Authority is authoritatively engaged to give open water administration inside Kent County. Kent County limits include around 172 square miles of land mass. It lies roughly five miles south of Providence and incorporates the towns of Coventry, East Greenwich, West Greenwich, West Warwick and the City of Warwick. The water clients in Kent County not overhauled by the Authority are served by exclusive wells or the Warwick Water Department for the City of Warwick. The Authority is administered by a seven part Board which impartially speak to the enthusiasm of the current network client base in sets up working strategy. By law, two individuals are selected by every one of the town/city gatherings in Warwick, West Warwick and Coventry; one part by the East Greenwich Town Council. Every part serves for a term of 7 years. Opportunities happening during a term are filled for the unexpired term. The administrator of the Board is chosen by a greater part vote of the Board individuals. The present individuals from the Board and wellsprings of arrangement are gone ahead underneath: Robert B. Boyer, Chairperson Town of West Warwick Peter O. Masterson, Vice Chairman Town of East Greenwich Joseph E. Gallucci, Treasurer City of Warwick Scott Duckworth, Secretary Town of Coventry Frank A. Giorgio, III, Member Town of West Warwick Russell S. Crossman, Member Town of Coventry Jefferey Giusti, Member City of Warwick The secretary and treasurer are delegated by the Board, yet need not be individuals. Three individuals from the Board establish a majority and a lion's share vote is fundamental for any move made by the Authority. Kent County Water Authority has 37 workers that encourage by and large framework activity and client support to more than 87,000 occupants through 26,700 help associations and 457 miles of water principle. Private clients make up around 94% of the Authority's records which speaks to roughly 75% of the all out water sold. Modern and business records speak to around 5% of the all out records and 20% of the water sold, different records, principally open organizations, make up the rest of the client base and by and large water deals. These rates have remained generally steady during the past five years. THE SYSTEM General The wellsprings of stock originate from both groundwater wells possessed by the Authority and treated water obtained discount from the Providence Water Supply Board (PWSB), a municipal open water provider likewise directed by the Public Utilities Commission. Other than these water sources, the System is included an appropriation and transmission pipe framework, siphoning stations, storerooms and fire hydrants. The System contains roughly 457 miles of conveyance and transmission mains, four dynamic stockpiling tanks of the standpipe or raised structure, two principle transmission siphoning offices, four weight supporter (or siphoning) stations, four wells, one 2.4 million gallon daily groundwater treatment plant, 2,395 open fire hydrants and 633 private fire hydrants. Weight Zones The current KCWA water dissemination framework is separated into eight (8) particular weight zones. The capacity to give local help is constrained by a restricting height related with each zone that compares to at least 35 psi at the administration association. Each zone works at a set water driven weight evaluation line. Five of the zones administration most of the KCWA administration region. The weight zones are as per the following: Low Service (334 foot) Pressure Gradient Reduced Low Service (280) Pressure Gradient High Service South (500 foot) Pressure Gradient Reduced High Service (430 foot) Pressure Gradient High Service North (500 foot) Pressure Gradient Tiogue Reduced High Service (425 foot) weight slope Warwick Tanks (231 foot) Pressure Gradient Oaklawn Service (231 foot) Pressure Gradient Water Supply By State law the, Authority is qualified for get from specific sources kept up by the Providence Water Supply Board (PWSB) at a limit of 150 gallons of water for each day per occupant of Kent County for household, fire and other common municipal water supply purposes. Around 80 percent of all water provided to the System is gotten through discount buy from the PWSB Scituate Reservoir. The System has three associations into this water source: Oaklawn Avenue in Cranston; Clinton Avenue transmission Pumping Station in Scituate; and Bald Hill Road transmission Pumping Station in Warwick . The Warwick Water Department System association thusly acquires the water from the PWSB. Since the PWSB is controlled by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), the Authority buys water at discount rates set up by the PUC for that water. The staying 20 percent of water provided to the System is created from five rock stuffed wells possessed by the Authority and situated in three well fields. One of the wells is situated .