Ononedaga County Water Authority (OCWA)

The Onondaga County Drinking water Authority is very happy to provide its clients and consumers with all the Authority’s Annual Hydrant Statement and Customer Confidence Report intended for the year ending Dec 31, 2017. Through this report, visitors will find useful info specifically related to OCWA, as well as information associated with water in general. Additionally, to mailing a notice to all clients of record launching the availability of the statement, the Authority proceeds its practice of providing copies from the report to local your local library. OCWA also promotes the availability of the statement in local printing media. While each year is typically filled with a lot of activity, 2017 was first an exceptional year because of the consolidation of Onondaga County's Metropolitan Drinking water Board (MWB) Pond Ontario system into the Onondaga County Drinking water Authority operations. Immediately, on January you, 2017, OCWA added 31 new workers and assumed complete operation and repair responsibility for the system's 60 mil gallon per day Pond Ontario water treatment plant and related facilities that provide drinking water for more than 50% of OCWA's customers. Additional facilities included in the conversion include 124 kilometers of 24-inch to 60-inch transmission primary; seven distribution program pumping stations; and thirteen water storage space tanks with a mixed capacity of 117. 25 million gallons. OCWA also thought oversight of the MWB's CARE project, a power performance contract which involves the replacement of the main pumps and power generators in use at the Pond Ontario raw intake of water pumping facility, the Lake Ontario obvious water pumping train station (located at the Pond Ontario water treatment plant campus), as well as the Eastern Reservoir moving station located in Manlius. In total, nine huge pumps and a motor that are at the end of the life cycle, have already been or are in the process to be replaced with new, even more, energy-efficient pumps and motors. By the end of January 2017, the newly combined personnel converted all of the Pond Ontario facilities using their existing control devices to OCWA's digital control system. Simultaneously, due to an employing freeze implemented by Authority in 2016, former MWB workers successfully bid on open up OCWA positions through the end of Mar of 2017 mixed staffing of the recently consolidated organization was first voluntarily reduced with a total of 8 employees. As a result, high were formerly two separate control centers, there is now one. An additional benefit of loan consolidation was the establishment of the exceptional maintenance division. Combined, the two previously separate maintenance departments formed a unit with talents that enhance one another and significantly enhanced OCWA's capability to maintain all the combined systems facilities. OCWA's engineering staff effectively obtained NYS Wellness Department grant financing that allowed the Authority to improve the Marcellus water treatment plant fluoride delivery system. Work on the project began found in 2017 and covered up just after the beginning of the new year. Building around the success of the Marcellus application, OCWA requested and was granted a grant to get a similar project in the Lake Ontario Grow. Work on the Pond Ontario plant task will begin in 2018. Combined, the two honors will save OCWA price payers $1. four million for the needed improvements in both plants. two hundred Northern Concourse PO Box 4949 Syracuse, NY 13221-4949 two Other 2017 capital improvement projects included the replacement of twenty, 256 feet of aging water droits, 91 isolation regulators, and 72 hydrants throughout the system. OCWA also completed focus on the replacement of a water main on Milton Avenue and Link Street, in the Town of Solvay as well as the Town of Geddes, as part of the large matched community streetscape task. OCWA also finished rehabilitation work on drinking water storage tanks situated in Camillus, McConnelsville, and Onondaga and finished coating life expansion projects on storage containers located in North Syracuse, Brewerton, and DeWitt. Another major task completed in 2017 included the construction of a cutting edge meter testing and repair facility in the Authority's headquarters in Salina. On the water top quality front, OCWA positively supported the City of Syracuse Water Division and Onondaga Region throughout the cyanobacteria (algae) bloom that affected Skaneateles Lake inside the fall. Additionally, around the heels of the business lead issue that significantly impacted Flint, The state of Michigan, OCWA embarked on task management to identify any business lead service in the OCWA system. In addition to sending a business lead survey to all home customers connected to the program, OCWA staff likewise began recording client-owned service components encountered while carrying out their daily responsibilities. It should be noted that drinking water delivered from all OCWA sources is usually treated to possibly create a protective covering on your water support line or to or else minimize the chances of any kind of materials leaching from the service line into the water delivered to your home. Searching ahead, during 2018 OCWA will continue its annual capital improvement program, which usually now includes the first planning for a major update to the 53-year-old Pond Ontario Water Treatment Plant campus. OCWA will also be finalizing the conversion of the Pond Ontario facilities to continue to using chlorine gas to sodium hypochlorite, a much safer water disinfectant. Other 2018 projects include changing the Oakridge storage space tank in Camillus, plus the ongoing annual rehabilitation of several distribution storage services. Additionally, the design intended for the replacement of 3 water storage containers will be started. Regarding other ongoing functions, roughly 25, 500 feet of drinking water main replacement is usually planned along with scheduled valve and hydrant replacements. For more information about the OCWA drinking water system and hydrant, you are advised to read the information one of the reports. Readers which have questions regarding the statement or require more information can contact OCWA’s Water Systems Chemist Ken Beckering simply by calling 315-455-7061, expansion 3141.

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