For more information, see the story posted in the City of Ames website.
City of Ames officials broke ground on a new $75 million water treatment plant on October 16th. The plant, approximately one mile northeast of the existing plant, will eventually replace the city's existing 90-year old facility. In addition to meeting the City of Ames' water needs of 15 million gallons per day, the new plant will also be built to LEED energy efficiency standards. For more information, see the story posted in the City of Ames website.
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Community leaders in Spencer gathered on October 13th as the Spencer Municipal Utilities General Manager Steve Pick, SMU Board of Trustees: Duane Barber, Sandi Schmidt, Alison Simpson, and SMU Water Manager Tony Hall broke ground on the estimated $14 million dollar 2 ½ year upgrade to the water treatment facility. The upgrades to the facility and processes will increase treatment capacity, expand the raw water source, reliability, safety and lime handling of the system when construction is complete. “Moving Toward Sustainability” is the title of an upcoming webinar series sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and several associations. The webinars will highlight utility programs to implement proven and progressive practices that:
“How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson” is a six-part serial program that, as excerpted from AWWA’s Water Service Insider e-newsletter of October 10, 2014, “… features examinations of the history and people behind innovations that have been instrumental in creating a successful modern society. The program’s segment entitled “Clean” will explore the history of clean drinking water and what mark its importance has left on our world.
“How We Got to Now With Steven Johnson” show producers worked with AWWA-Journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Michael McGuire, in the development of the “Clean” segment. McGuire is author of the popular book “The Chlorine Revolution: Water Disinfection and the Fight to Save Lives”, which chronicles the journey of disinfecting water systems with chlorine.” The “Clean” program is the first of the six to air, edition 101, on Iowa Public Television, October 15, 8:00 p.m. (also rebroadcast three other times). See the website for the additional broadcast times, and the availability to view online after the broadcast: http://www.iptv.org/series.cfm/24062/how_we_got_to_now_with/ep:101 Cedar Falls has been named the top community in Iowa for e-commerce, and is giving the Cedar Falls Utilities broadband network much of the credit. Officials from Google will be in Cedar Falls on Wednesday to make a presentation at a local business, Scratch Cupcakery, that has directly benefited from having fast, reliable, fiber optic broadband from CFU. To learn more about the recognition, click here to read an article in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier Online. While the Internet has its early roots in the 1960's, it was the advent of the World Wide Web 25 years ago that first brought the Internet to our homes and businesses. As the Web and the Internet have evolved, so have our uses for them. From simple email and messaging to streaming HD movies, how we use the Internet continues to change. And internet providers, including IAMU's broadband utility members, have had to work to keep up with the consumer's demands for more and more bandwidth. Now the Pew Research Center has conducted a study that asks what new ways will we be using the Internet for in the future? As more and more consumers get access to Gigabit speeds, how will it change their lives? Last week IAMU had our 2nd Annual Energy Conference, which included a Community Solar Workshop preconference seminar. I want to thank everyone who was able to make it to the conference or the preconference.
IAMU is pleased to announce that Steve Marsh of Pleasantville, Iowa has joined the IAMU team as Water Services Specialist. Steve comes to IAMU with 14 years of experience as a water/wastewater operator at the City of Pleasantville. He holds a Grade II water treatment and distribution license and a Grade 1 wastewater license. A 1984 graduate of Pleasantville High School, Marsh attended William Penn College in Oskaloosa, graduating with a B.A. in Industrial Technology Education with minors in Coaching and Driver's Ed. He and his wife Terri have been married for 27 years and have two sons. Marsh will focus primarily on water viability projects for members along with assisting with member workshops. Join us in welcoming Steve to the IAMU team! Is your utility holding an observation of Public Power Week? If so, we'd love to hear about it! Public Power Week is October 5-11. 2014 marks the 28th anniversary of this nationwide program to celebrate the importance of public power to local citizens and other key publics, including state and national officials. Are you holding events or otherwise celebration Public Power Week with your citizens? If so, we hope you'll share your plans with IAMU so we can feature you in next weeks IAMU Informer. Just email the details to cdean@iamu.org, or fill out the "Suggest a Story for The Informer" form on the right side of the page. Thanks in advance! |
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