One of the reasons we started this blog is to provide information to interested citizens on a regular basis so I must apologize that I have not posted anything in 7 days.
Last Thursday afternoon was taken up with Board meetings for both Appomattox River Water Authority and South Central Wastewater Authority. Since then we have been working on selecting a replacement for the boiler that provides heat to one-half of the treatment plant, the Laboratory, and the Administration offices.
The third item we have been working on since the Board meeting is the evaluation of potential products to replace our current corrosion inhibitor. We determined the current product was not as effective as it should have been in removing manganese from our finished water during recent manganese events which contributed to some customers experiencing discolored water. Changing a treatment chemical begins with looking at lots of information to make sure you select a product as good as, and hopefully better than, the current product used. That selection is followed by a lot of testing and evaluation of results to confirm the water quality is improved before we purchase the required quantities of the product.
We are also exploring two other solutions to address the elevated manganese levels in our raw water that occur following storm events. I will describe them in more detail in future posts to this blog. We will implement all of them, if they work, as multiple barriers to manganese to ensure our Operators have the tools necessary to address that issue when it occurs. Changes such as these require attention to lots of details to ensure we deliver the highest quality water to our customers throughout the effort to make the changes.
If you momitor the lake level at your property, or monitor river flows below the reservoir, you have probably noticed there has been a lot of variation in both over the past week. These variations were related to equipment issues associated with the hydro-electric facility located at the Brasfield Dam. Even with these variations in flow we always satisfied our permit release requirements.
The Appomattox River Water Authority was formed in the 1960s to own/operate a regional water supply and sell drinking water to the cities of Colonial Heights and Petersburg as well as Chesterfield, Dinwiddie and Prince George counties. The information below is updated frequently to communicate current information on Chesdin Reservoir and its environment.
