최대의 미국 수질 및 폐수 공기업인 American Water Works Company가 안전한 물을 위한 4개의 상을 수상했다고 밝혔다. 첫 번째 플랜트는 대통령을 상을 수상하고 다른 플랜트는 5년 동안 maintaining Phase III 증명을 받았다. 또한, 두 시스템은 분배 시스템 활용 프로그램을 위한 회사 최초의 Phase III Directors Award를 수여했다.

이 회사는 지역사회의 물 분배 시스템 운영과 안전한 배달 보증, 고품질 식수 등 성공적으로 완료된 종합 자체 평가를 위해 선택 됐다. 자체평가는 분배 시스템 운영·수행 평가, 수행 한계 요소 확인, 분배 시스템을 활용하기 위한 행동 계획 개발을 포함한다고 설명했다.

American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE:  AWK), the largest publicly traded U.S. water and wastewater utility company, has received four Partnership for Safe Water awards. One plant is receiving a Presidents Award, another is receiving an award for maintaining Phase III certification for five years, and two systems are being presented with the company's first-ever Phase III Directors Award for Distribution System Optimization Program.

Pennsylvania American Water's (PAW) Philipsburg Water Treatment Plant has received the elite Phase IV Presidents Award recognition. Phase IV goals are the highest possible level of performance that can be achieved in the four-phase program. The Presidents' Award recognizes achieving Phase IV's very stringent individual filter performance goals for turbidity.

PAW's facility has been participating in the Partnership since 1996 and is a member of the distribution system program. The Philipsburg plant received its first Directors Award in 1999. It is the first plant in American Water's footprint and only the fourth treatment plant in Pennsylvania to receive the Presidents Award.

Another PAW facility, the Huntsville Water Treatment Plant, is also being recognized in 2014 for maintaining the Phase III Directors Award status for five years. With a total of 68 surface water treatment plants recognized, American Water accounts for about 30 percent of all plants that have received the Phase III award nationwide.

American Water's Military Services Group is being recognized with Phase III Directors Award for Distribution System Optimization Program for the water distribution systems it manages for Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and Scott Air Force Base, Ill. These are American Water's first distribution systems to receive this award and account for 33 percent of all the distribution systems that have received this award.

They were selected for successfully completing a comprehensive self-assessment of water distribution system operations, a significant achievement towards ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality drinking water to the community. The self-assessment includes evaluating distribution system operations and performance, identifying performance limiting factors, and developing action plans to optimize the distribution system. The assessment culminates in a final report reviewed by water resources professionals from across the U.S.

 

[출처 = Water World / 2014년 6월 27일]