Calling all Madison residents, East Side Water Supply Project holds public hearing

UPDATE: 

The Madison Water Utility Board voted Tuesday, July 26 to approve all four proposed projects developed to improve the quality and supply of water on Madison’s East side.

The projects include: removing the contaminant tetrachloroethylene (PCE) from City Well 15, building a system to filter out iron and manganese in Well eight and seven and replacing the previously shut down Well three with another well.

Over the next four years, Water Utility will implement one project a year, starting with construction of Well 15 in spring of 2012 and ending with the replacement of Well three in 2015. 

Watch coverage of the meeting on the Madison City Channel [1]. 

The East Side Water Supply Project Citizen’s Advisory Panel (CAP) will present plans to address the future of water quality and supply on Madison’s East Side during a public hearing held by the Water Utility Board this Tuesday, July 12^th.

Citizens are encouraged to attend the meeting in the Madison Utility Conference Room at 119 East Olin Avenue to discuss and voice concerns regarding the projects. Presentations will begin at 4:30 p.m. with a public hearing for questions following at 6 p.m.

The meeting will include information from a technical team of engineers regarding current East Side water quality and demand problems, and possible solutions for the future.

Drawing on months of research and planning to identify key water quality and demand problems, CAP members will also present their suggestions for future solutions.

These solutions include three CAP advisories regarding water demand [2], water quality [3] and conservation [4], which identify four main projects.

These projects include:  implementing a filter system to remove iron and manganese from City Wells seven and eight, treating Well 15 to remove the contaminant tetrachloroethylene (PCE) and building a new well, Well 45.  

The Water Utility Board will vote to approve these plans on July 26.

For more information on the project, see this article [5] or visit the City of Madison’s East Side Water Supply Project page [6]. You can also watch Tuesday's public hearing live on Madison's City Channel [7].