Amador County – Amador Water Agency water is now mingling with Plymouth’s well water. Mayor Patricia Fordyce said Friday the city was using a mix of its main source of well water, along with water from the Plymouth Pipeline to serve its customers. The water is being mixed in the city’s 500,000-gallon water storage tank. Fordyce said city staff is not sure what of the percentage of the mix, but it includes treated water from AWA’s Tanner water treatment plant in Sutter Creek, and from Plymouth’s city water wells. The city water is treated in its treatment plant. In a February 11th AWA board meeting, AWA Interim General Manager Gene Mancebo said Plymouth’s permit for the pipeline was in place and water was flowing into the city. He said the city was not yet being billed at full capacity flow. He said Plymouth will be metered, to pay for its portion of the water it gets from AWA. Mancebo was answering questions raised by Plymouth developer Stephanie McNair, who had wondered if Plymouth’s payment for water was paying AWA’s debt service for the cost of building the Plymouth Pipeline. Mancebo said “I would not say that.” McNair said the 544 hookups in Plymouth came out from under the violation in the city, and AWA needed to bring in a broader customer base to help the agency with finances. McNair, a development partner of Cottage Knoll in Plymouth, and Bob Reeder, partner on Zinfandel and Shenandoah Ridge housing developments, also in Plymouth, both urged the AWA board at its February 11th meeting to fund a study of the Tanner plant the system’s service to Ione. The study, approved 3-2, with Directors Terence Moore, Don Cooper and Gary Thomas in favor, will study ways to glean more capacity from the systems, to expand service and “conditional will serve” notices around the county. The 2 developers, McNair and Reeder, collectively have 786 single family homes on the drawing board in Plymouth. Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Monday, 22 February 2010 00:44
Plymouth Spigots Flow With Mix of AWA, City Well Waters
Amador County – Amador Water Agency water is now mingling with Plymouth’s well water. Mayor Patricia Fordyce said Friday the city was using a mix of its main source of well water, along with water from the Plymouth Pipeline to serve its customers. The water is being mixed in the city’s 500,000-gallon water storage tank. Fordyce said city staff is not sure what of the percentage of the mix, but it includes treated water from AWA’s Tanner water treatment plant in Sutter Creek, and from Plymouth’s city water wells. The city water is treated in its treatment plant. In a February 11th AWA board meeting, AWA Interim General Manager Gene Mancebo said Plymouth’s permit for the pipeline was in place and water was flowing into the city. He said the city was not yet being billed at full capacity flow. He said Plymouth will be metered, to pay for its portion of the water it gets from AWA. Mancebo was answering questions raised by Plymouth developer Stephanie McNair, who had wondered if Plymouth’s payment for water was paying AWA’s debt service for the cost of building the Plymouth Pipeline. Mancebo said “I would not say that.” McNair said the 544 hookups in Plymouth came out from under the violation in the city, and AWA needed to bring in a broader customer base to help the agency with finances. McNair, a development partner of Cottage Knoll in Plymouth, and Bob Reeder, partner on Zinfandel and Shenandoah Ridge housing developments, also in Plymouth, both urged the AWA board at its February 11th meeting to fund a study of the Tanner plant the system’s service to Ione. The study, approved 3-2, with Directors Terence Moore, Don Cooper and Gary Thomas in favor, will study ways to glean more capacity from the systems, to expand service and “conditional will serve” notices around the county. The 2 developers, McNair and Reeder, collectively have 786 single family homes on the drawing board in Plymouth. Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Latest from
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