Water Utility Board approves all four East Side Water Supply Project proposals

The Madison Water Utility Board voted Tuesday, July 26 to approve four proposed projects which were 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 7 and Well 8 and replacing the previously shut down Well 3 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 3 in 2015.

Tuesday’s decision follows months of research and meetings by the Water Utility Board and the East Side Water Supply Project Citizen Advisory Panel to identify key issues and solutions for the future of water quality and supply on the East side.

To watch coverage of the Water Utility Board meeting, visit the Madison City Channel [1]. For more information on the project, see this article [2] or visit the City of Madison’s Water Utility Board website [3].