Projects will improve system operations
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Feb. 15, 2013) – Twenty-two small drinking water treatment systems in Kentucky will receive financial assistance through a program designed to improve their technical, managerial and financial capabilities to ensure production of safe drinking water in a consistent, cost-effective manner.
Small systems are those serving fewer than 10,000 customers.
The Division of Water (DOW) was able to build on the lessons learned from the program’s first year of operation, said Jennifer Spradlin, program manager for the Capacity Development Assistance Program.
“Over twice as many systems applied for this round of funding,” she said. “With last year’s success, the program will continue to evolve and expand in order to assist more systems with managerial, financial, and technical capacity.”
The program is administered by the nonprofit Community Action of Kentucky (through the Rural Community Assistance Program). The applications were ranked on factors that are not regulated, such as median household income, population, historical rate increases and results of previous sanitary surveys.
Funding for the Capacity Development Assistance Program for Small Systems is made possible through funds from the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) capitalization grant. The DWSRF program was established by the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996 to provide low-interest loans to public water systems for infrastructure improvements needed to produce safe drinking water. The program emphasizes the prevention of drinking water contamination by allowing states to reserve a portion of their grants to fund activities that encourage enhanced water system management and source water protection.
Systems receiving assistance
♦ Brodhead Water Works – Operations & Maintenance Manual update and drinking water rate study
♦ Fordsville Water District – Infrastructure mapping
♦ Centertown Water District – Two infrastructure mapping projects
♦ Morgantown Utilities – Infrastructure mapping
♦ Fleming-Neon Water Co. – Leak detection/water loss
♦ Trenton Water and Sewer – Infrastructure mapping
♦ Vanceburg Electric Plant Board – Leak detection/water loss
♦ Nortonville Water Works – Infrastructure mapping
♦ Western Lewis Rectorville Water District – Infrastructure mapping
♦ Dexter-Almo Heights Water District – Two Infrastructure mapping projects
♦ Wingo Water – Water storage tank inspection
♦ Munfordville Water Department – Leak detection/water loss
♦ Bonnieville Water District – Leak detection/water loss
♦ Adairville Water Works – Leak detection/water loss
♦ Livermore Water Works – Infrastructure mapping
♦ Brownsville Municipal Water System – Infrastructure mapping
♦ Augusta Regional Water Treatment Plant – Asset management plan
♦ Pineville Water – Fonde – Infrastructure mapping
♦ Cawood Water District – Leak detection/water loss
♦ Mount Olivet Water Department – Asset management plan
♦ Elkhorn Water District – Leak detection/water loss
♦ Burkesville Water Works – Storage tank inspection
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