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GUC Earns 2010 Safe Drinking Water Excellence Award

GUC received the 2010 Safey Drinking Water Excellence Award. This is a federal award recognizing Greenville Utilities water professionals for providing consistently superior drinking water treatment and safe delivery to citizens. This is a particularly significant recognition because it highlights our community water system among nominees from EPA Southeast Region 4 (TN, KY, NC, SC, MS, AL, GA, & FL). Our state regulators and industry peers in N.C. endorsed GUC as North Carolina’s nominee for this award in the large surface system category; ultimately our federal regulators in Atlanta selected Greenville Utilities as the EPA honoree for the southeast US region.

The award recognizes the sustained, comprehensive team effort, commitment and expertise required to provide safe drinking water  including plant operation and consistently outstanding water treatment, and supporting services like quality control, distribution, maintenance, quality customer service, system capacity planning, financial management, rates & programs that encourage water efficiency and community outreach. 

The criteria for the awards include: compliance with federal and state drinking water standards and all regulations for the past 3 years; receipt of sanitary survey results for the past 3 years; addressing operation, maintenance, and administrative management issues; outstanding operation and maintenance practices; and quality of customer service.  

The goals of the Excellence Award are to recognize and award water systems that are demonstrating commitment to compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act through outstanding operations and maintenance practices; to heighten overall public awareness of the contributions of public water supplies for ensuring adequate and safe drinking water; and to encourage public support for maintaining an exemplary status.

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