Poweshiek Water Association

Poweshiek Water Association Drinking Water Report Info
The History of Poweshiek Water Association The first informational meeting was held July 7, 1977 at the Malcom Auditorium Malcom, Iowa with approximately 100 persons in participation. At the following meeting, a leading body of 13 members was chosen. Poweshiek Water was consolidated in mid-1978. A consulting firm, Bartlett and West Engineers, Inc., of Topeka, Kansas, was held in March, 1978, to design a system and record an application for a FmHA credit. The undertaking was subsidized in April 1983. The office in Brooklyn opened in August of 1983. The Association changed authoritative status from a 504A non-profit to a 357A Public Body in January 1984. Following the Iowa Code, the load up size was decreased from thirteen to nine as of now. Offer letting occurred in March 1984 for the distribution system and towers and in June 1984 for the treatment plant and wells. The first undertaking was proclaimed finished on July 26, 1985. Earth shattering at the treatment plant was Oct. 6, 1984 and the plant started pumping water September 10, 1985. The first PWA water system served approximately 1,300 individual meters. The communities who were supplied water by PWA at that time were Barnes City, Guernsey and Gibson. The counties served by PWA at first were Poweshiek, Tama, Iowa, Keokuk, Mahaska and Jasper. Today at Poweshiek Water Association The counties served by PWA at present are: Poweshiek, Tama, Iowa, Keokuk, Mahaska, Jasper, Benton, Linn, Johnson, Marshall and Black Hawk. PWA supplies water to 7,300 individual meters. Communities served by PWA incorporate Guernsey, Gibson, Vining, Luzene, Thornburg, Searsboro, Malcom, Buckingham, Dinsdale, Irving, Watkins, Barnes City, Clutier, Hickory Hollow, Millersburg, Dysart, Brooklyn, Chelsea, Elberon, Norway, Deep River, Conroy, Van Horne, and Holiday Lake. Treatment Facilities Poweshiek Water Association has two treatment facilities. One is found 3 miles south of Tama on Highway 63 and the other is situated on 220th Trail by South Amana. A lime softening office, the Tama Plant utilizes 14 alluvial wells to supply up to 2,800,000 gallons of water for every day to the system with a hardness of 5 to 7 grains. The Amana Plant uses a reverse osmosis system where the water is blessed to receive a degree of 4 to 5 grains of hardness. PWA has two vertical and two edge wells to give water from this area. As of now the Amana office has the ability of furnishing 800,000 gallons for every day with the possibility of expansion later on. PWA has an agreement with the city of Cedar Rapids to purchase up to 1,600,000 gallons of water for each day. Water purchased from Cedar Rapids is lime-softened and maintained at 7 to 8 grains of hardness. Poweshiek Water Association routinely monitors for constituents in your drinking water as indicated by Federal and State Laws. Yearly water quality reports are made accessible on this website and to those that bring in to the office. Storage Facilities There are at present 13 water towers all through our system. Storage limit at the Tama treatment plant is presently 900,000 gallons. The storage limit at the Amana plant is 400,000 gallons. Distribution PWA maintains approximately 3,200 miles of water lines. We right now have accessible connections, to give emergency water to the following communities: Grinnell, Traer, Parnell, Montezuma and Central Iowa Water Association. Sanitary Systems PWA maintains sewer systems in Conroy, Millersburg, Watkins, and Barnes City..