REO Water, INC.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Water System Improvements Project<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Project Description<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Reo Water, Inc. is a non-profit corporation formed in 1964 to provide potable water service to rural and small urban areas in southern Spencer County.\u00a0 The service territory extends east-west from the west side of the City of Rockport to just west of the Community of Hatfield and north-south from the Ohio River to just north of the Town of Richland City.\u00a0 The Corporation\u2019s raw water supply is provided by five (5) groundwater wells located just south of SR 66 approximately 0.8 miles west of the SR 161 intersection. A water treatment plant, consisting of two aeration\/filtration units, chemical feed and high service pumping facilities is located at the same site.\u00a0 Water is pumped from the water treatment plant into three (3) separate water storage tanks located within the service territory.\u00a0 The water distribution system consists of approximately 116 miles of 1\u201d thru 12\u201d water mains.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The system is aging and in need of rehabilitation.\u00a0 At the water treatment plant, one of the aeration\/filtration units is over 50 years old and in need of replacement.\u00a0 The second aeration\/filtration unit needs rehabilitation inclusive of media replacement, cleaning and painting.\u00a0 Multiple high service pumps, chemical feed systems and electrical components need repair\/replacement.\u00a0 The water treatment plant building is also in need of new windows\/doors\/gutters\/downspouts and cleaning and painting.\u00a0 The systems oldest water storage tank, constructed in 1965, is at the end of its useful life, and needs to be replaced with a bigger capacity tank to adequately serve current system demands.\u00a0 A good portion of the existing distribution system is in excess of 50 years old.\u00a0 In addition, over 22 miles of distribution main are either 1\u201d or 2\u201d in size.\u00a0 Many of these mains need replacement and upsizing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
In order to properly address the needs of the system, REO Water, Inc. is undertaking a Water System Improvement Project.\u00a0 The project consists of rehabilitation of the existing water treatment plant, replacement\/upsizing of the systems oldest water storage tank and replacement\/upsizing\/reinforcement of approximately 37 miles of distribution system main.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Corporation has received a low interest (1.125%) loan in the amount of approximately $12.66 million dollars from the United States Department of Agricultural \u2013 Rural Development for financing of the Water System Improvement Project.\u00a0 Design of these improvements is underway.\u00a0 Once the necessary permits and easements are obtained, the improvements will be publicly bid.\u00a0 Construction would start soon after.\u00a0 Any questions should be directed to Reo Water Board of Directors Vice President, Steve Daming at (812) 686-1005.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Present & New Rates<\/a><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n ATTN: REO WATER INC. CUSTOMERS,<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n During the course of the current upgrade project, in order to comply with the USDA loan requirements, we will have to implement a rate increase beginning with 20% starting with water used in January 2021.\u00a0 This project is being implemented by REO Water to upgrade aging infrastructure in the system as well as keep up with current and any future Federal and State water utility regulations.\u00a0 Information regarding the project will be posted on our website: www.reowater.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Any questions or comments should be addressed by email to: reowater@psci.net<\/a>.\u00a0 Each email will be reviewed at the board meetings that are held on the second Tuesday of each month.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Board of Directors<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n REO Water, Inc.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Project Description REO Water, INC. Water System Improvements Project Project Description Reo Water, Inc. is a non-profit corporation formed in 1964 to provide potable water service to rural and small urban areas in southern Spencer County.\u00a0 The service territory extends east-west from the west side of the City of Rockport to just west of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reowater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reowater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reowater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reowater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reowater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reowater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/reowater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reowater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Rate Change Information<\/h2>\r\n