Maintenance, planning, keys to EPWSA success

Preventive maintenance and longterm infrastructure planning remain central to the Eatonton-Putnam Water and Sewer Authority’s (EPWSA) strategy for managing the local water and sewer system, project manager Brice Doolittle told the Putnam County Board of Commissioners on March 6, during a scheduled...

City okays new fire training facility, tornado siren testing

At the Eatonton City Council meeting on April 21, councilmembers heard a proposal to lease property on Church Street from the Eatonton-Putnam Water and Sewer Authority to develop and build a fire department training facility by using Conex shipping containers to build a “smoke room.”“I think it’s a...

EPWSA presents rate increase, new service delivery charge

With an eye to the future – and in preparation for growth – the Eatonton-Putnam Water and Sewer Authority (EPWSA) board last week raised customers’ water and sewer rates by 4 percent for next year and held a lengthy discussion over a hefty “service delivery charge” for new customers.

EPWSA, misconceptions, efficiencies discussed

A couple of brief, but telling, digressions popped up in the course of an otherwise normal monthly business meeting of the Eatonton- Putnam Water and Sewer Authority last week.

SWA may increase role in local water distribution

The 2007 agreement between the Piedmont Water Co. and the Eatonton-Putnam Water and Sewer Authority (EPWSA) that defined service areas in Putnam County is set to expire in 2027, a little over three years from now.

EPWSA hears detailed project bids

Detailed bid packages for $6.3 million in improvements to Eatonton’s aging water system components should be finalized and out for bids by September 1, ESG local manager Brice Doolittle told the Eatonton-Putnam Water and Sewer Authority (EPWSA) board last Wednesday.

EPWSA presents water quality report

The bottom line: Eatonton-Putnam’s water is safe to drink. So says the annual report for the quality of water produced by the Sinclair Water Authority plant on Cay Drive and distributed in Eatonton and southeastern Putnam County by the Eatonton-Putnam Water and Sewer Authority.

EPWSA explains how improvement expenses add up

With financing set up and engineering work nearing completion, contracts for $ 6.2 million worth of “catch-up” water system projects in and around Eatonton could be started this summer – and possibly completed by the end of the year.

EPWSA looks forward during work session

A mid-March “work session” by the Eatonton-Putnam Water and Sewer Authority board made no formal decisions, yet still outlined a broad path of balancing acts that they, and future boards, will grapple with over the next 10, 20, and maybe even 40 years.

New rates coming to EPWSA March bills

The March billings to customers of the Eatonton-Putnam Water and Sewer Authority (EPWSA) will more accurately reflect the authority’s 8.7-percent rate increase enacted at the beginning of the year.