Water Treatment Facility Sunset Water Plant • 2800 Willow Beach Rd. • 256-582-5326
CAPACITY - TREATMENT 4.0 MGD Surface Treatment Plant + 1.0 MGD Well = 5.0 Rated Capacity
2005 Statistics for Water Treatment Facility
4200+ Water Customers 150 Mile Mains - 1 1/2" to 20" 1/2 PVC - 1/2 C. or D.I. Pipe 1,061,417 Gallons Treated Service Area Arbor Acres on Sand MT to Tenn. River Bridge South Hwy 79 - To Douglas System 2 Miles Past city limits. East to Lake Guntersville State Park Hwy. 227 To Conners Island Industrial Park - Claysville	Sell Water Asbury Water Authority - 1000+ Customers Purchase Water Albertville Service Sand Mt. Area - 800+ Customers Water Storage 6 GST Tanks - 2 Elevated Tanks 4,450,000 - Reservoir Storage Capacity Approx. 36hrs - Storage Capacity
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Waste Water Treatment Facility Eastlake Wastewater Treatment • 3100 Lake Guntersville State Parkway • 256-582-2144
CAPACITY - TREATMENT 4.6 MGD - 28 Sewer Pumping Stations and 100 Miles Sewer Main 8" to 36"
2005 Statistics for Waste Water Treatment Facility
3000+ Customers Last Major Sewer Expansions: 2002 - Conners Island Industrial Park 2004 - 2005 Hwy 431 South - Sand Mt.	Service Area - Corporate City Limits of Guntersville
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Employee Facts
Employees 22 Full time Employees 5 Grade IV Certified Water Treatment Operation 5 Grade IV Certified Waste Water Operation	Maintenance and Construction 5 Maintenance and Construction 2 Meter Readers
Office 2 Clerks 1 Bookkeeper
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System Facts
Average Adding 100-150 New Customers Per Year since 1995	Additions to System - Residential Last 10 years 10 New Subdivisions - 20 or more lots Timber Walk - Riverview Ridgefield 1-2 - Patterson Estates Hualapai 1-3 Addition - Windward Webb 1-4 Addition - Creek Ridge Cedar Mill 1-3 Addition - Heritage Woods 1-2 Additions Riverpointe
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Water and Sewer
Expansions Hwy 431 Sewer along both sides of 431 to Albertville City Limits Joint Project with city to help attract commercial expansions along Hwy 431 Signal Point Water mains Claysville - Conner's Island Industrial Park - Sewer and Water Expansion Added Approx 120 New Fire Hydrants since 1995 2005- Starting 44.2 million Wate Water Treatment Expansion of Headwork; improved airations systems and solids removal @ East Lake Waste Water Treatment Plant	Previous Improvement and Expansions 1) 1994 - $3.2 million Water Plant Expansions Doubled capacity from 2 to 4 MGD Environmental Regulation from EPA - ADEM "0" Discharge Closed Blount Water Treatment Plant Sept. 1993 2) Approx. 15,000 FT 20" - 12" - 10" Mains along Willow Beach and Sunset Drive to North town and Hwy 79 Helped our Flows and Volume Problems 3) 450,000 Rehabilitation of Waste Water Plant - New Aeration for our Digestors for odor control sludge volume. 4) Waste Water Sludge Land Application - 300 to 350 Wet tons per month.
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Water Monitoring and Testing
Daily Basis: Operation Monitor PH, Alkalinity, CL2 Residual Fluoride Content Along with the various feed rates for chemicals Quarterly: Organic Contaminants TTHM's Haloactic Acids - Disinfectant	Bi-Montly: Bacteriological Monitoring Different Locations in System. According to Population Served. Yearly: Inorganic and Radiological Arsenic - Metal - Mercury-Asbestos - Nickel Cyanide - Lead Lead and Copper Sampling: 50% Samples where lead services lines were installed. Homes built before 1987 - Lead and Copper 1996 - 1997 40 Samples - 20 Samples 1998 2001 - 20 Samples
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Trends in Water - Waste Water Treatment
Virus - Parasite - Cryptosporidium - Giardia Outbreaks - Milwaukee - Carrolton, GA. Intestinal Dis-Orders can cause Death Elderly or people with low immune systems.	SDWA - Amends - 1996 Passed Public Awareness - CCR Reports Source water Assessment Well - Head protection Flushing Program Corrosive Inhibitor
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