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Services > Public Works
WATER UTILITY
Infrastructure:
The Village of Lumby operates the water treatment and distribution. The water system consists of two deep wells with the ability to pump 4,129,920 litres of raw water daily.
In 2010 the third well will be completed bring the utilities capabilities to 5,080,320 litres per day. More importantly the well delivery system offers a surety of supply.
The water pumped to the filtration plant, where a filtration process takes place, that is to remove iron and manganese, through a sand filter system, where sodium hypochlorite is introduced to disinfect the water as is required by the Provincial Ministry of Health.
The once filtered and chlorinated is pumped to a lower reservoir with a holding capacity of 2,649,788 litres. The water from the lower reservoir is fed into the distribution system for the lower portion of the Village, and is also pumped to the high Reservoir located above Miller Street for distribution to the community. The high reservoir is capable of storing 1,620,156 litres of water.
The regulations require that the water system have the capacity storage for a two day supply of domestic use and a fire fighting supply to meet the Underwriters requirements.
Operations:
Daily inspections of the water filtration plant and pumping stations is required. During the course of the year as part of the normal operations of the utility, the Public Works Department inspect the fire hydrants, exercise all the water valves and flush the water mains on an annual basis, to assist in cleaning the water mains. The department also repairs individual service valves to the property and repairs to the water distribution mains.
Monitoring of the available chlorine in the distribution water mains are collected and inputted into a state of the art SCADA system. Within this powerful program, the deep aquifer Lumby utilizes for potable water is also monitored 24 hours a day, showing the reaction of the aquifer during heavy and light use.
Water Meters:
The Village has completed a universal water metering program in 2009, and during the course of 2010, meter readings will be carried out on a monthly basis. In 2011, the consumers will be invoiced on a user pay basis. During the course of 2010, a rate structure will be developed that will ensure long term maintenance of the water system and future capital expenditures or replacement is covered.
Water Rates:
Monthly: $20.00, plus $2.00 for Water Meter Reserve total $22.00
Yearly $264.00
WaterWise Newsletters:
- Fall 2008 WaterWise - 1.29MB PDF
- Spring 2008 WaterWise - 900Kb PDF
- Spring 2007 WaterWise - 410Kb PDF
- Fall 2006 WaterWise - 120Kb PDF
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