Portsmouth Water & Fire District

The Portsmouth Water and Fire District is a quasi-municipal agency produced by the RI Total Assembly in 1952. The District is in charge of providing drinking water and water for open fire protection for approximately 90 percent of Portsmouth on Aquidneck Tropical isle. The District is usually governed by a seven-member elected Administrative Table and holds an election of officials on the second Wed in June. The District is not part of the Town of Portsmouth government. However, the District and Town work together to best serve their particular common constituents. The initial District was referred to as Island Park and Common Fence Stage Fire District as well as water distribution program was constructed inside the mid to past due 1950s. In 1956, the name of the District was first changed to Portsmouth Drinking water and Fire Area. In 1965, the Area boundaries were converted to include the south end of Portsmouth as well as the water distribution program was expanded to protect this area in the middle of the late 1960s. The Redwood Facilities and Raytheon areas were excluded from your District’s expanded support area as they had been already served simply by Newport Water. Today the District’s drinking water system serves six, 638 customers and consists of over 140 miles of a tube, 4 water storage space tanks, 2 moving stations, and 582 fire hydrants. The District does not personal any water materials, but instead buys its regular hydrant on a wholesale most basic from the City of Newport and relies on the Rock Bridge Fire Area in Tiverton intended for emergency water supply. The Administrative Board's objective is to provide the clients of the District with an adequate supply of the very best quality water available. The latest and current attempts to improve water top quality and customer service consist of: Portsmouth Water and Fire District 1944 East Main Street P. O. Package 99 Portsmouth, RI 02871 Phone: (401) 683-2090 Fax: (401) 682-1550 E-mail: info@portsmouthwater. org · Internet Portal that allows clients to pay their particular water and tax bills on-line working with ACH drafts and credit and debit cards. Go to Portsmouth water. org and click the “PAY MY BILL” button. · Progress a Geographic Info System (GIS) intended for water system umschlüsselung and data evaluation. · Purchase of a Property Management System web application/server that integrates GIS for record hanging on to and real-time cellular work orders. · Commencement of preparing, design, and financing for replacement of the 51-year-old Unification Street Pumping Train station. · Annual single direction water main flushing program based on hydraulic modeling and evaluation. · Looping of recent and existing drinking water main extensions whenever you can to avoid dead-ends. · Implementation of a cross-connection control program. · Notifying customers of shutdowns and emergencies via CodeRED. Go to https://portsmouthwater.org/codered-emergency-notification-system/ to find out more and to sign up. All of us encourage public curiosity and participation within our community's decisions influencing drinking water. Regular conferences of the Administrative Table of the Portsmouth Drinking water and Fire Area are held around the third Tuesday of each month at several: 00 PM, in the District's office in 1944 East Primary Road. The public is usually welcome and motivated to attend these conferences. Written minutes from the meetings are available after request. This Customer Confidence Report and minutes of Table meetings are also available on the net at www.portsmouthWater. org. Your Water Resource In 2017, the Portsmouth Water and Fire District bought all of its drinking water from the City of Newport. Most of the water is cured at the Lawton Area Water Treatment Grow in Portsmouth. Sometimes, the water may be cured at the Station 1 Water Treatment Grow in Newport. Newport cigarettes Water draws the raw water supply coming from a system of 9 surface water reservoirs: Lawton Valley Tank, Sisson Pond, and St. Mary’s Fish pond in Portsmouth; Nonquit Pond in Tiverton; Watson Reservoir in Little Compton; North and South Easton Ponds in Middletown and Newport; and Paradise Pond and Gardner Pond found in Middletown. Both vegetation and all nine reservoirs are owned and operated by the City of Newport. The emergency source from the Stone Link Fire District is usually treated at the Rock Bridge Water Treatment Plant in Tiverton, which draws surface area water from Stafford Pond in Tiverton. Source Water Tests In 2003, the University of Rhode Island, in assistance with the RI Division of Health (RIDOH) and other state and federal companies, assessed the risks within the watersheds of Newport Water’s hydrant sources. The evaluation found that the drinking water sources on Aquidneck Island and in Small Compton and Tiverton are moderately vulnerable to contamination. Monitoring and protection efforts are particularly crucial to assure continued drinking water quality. Newport Drinking water updated the year 2003 Assessment in 2010. The entire Source Water Evaluation Report is available in our office..

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