'8 The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, October 19, 1994 Sewer rates ——— 2 (continued from page 1) Water 40 companies THE CINNAMON STICK Bagley said. “But our labor and ‘energy costs would have doubled.” + And, because DAMA released its wastewater into Toby's Creek, ‘a designated fish propagation area, it would have faced more stringent state and federal waste- water regulations than Wyoming Valley has, he said. ~ DAMA also has less land to work with, which would have forced it to build large treatment ~ towers rather than spreading the facility out over several acres. Bagley said that DAMA, con- sidered a non-profit municipal authority, determines its rates by a combination of the treatment costs paid to Wyoming Valley, the debt for setting up operations in 1972 and funded by a bond, and DAMA's own operating and capi- tal costs. © Its annual operating budget is $1,071,600, Bagley said. - Each customer's yearly $188 bill is divided for: _ © $92.12 paid to Wyoming Val- ley, : # $68 paid towards the 1972 bond and ¢ $27.88 paid towards DAMA's operating costs. * The force main project was funded by state and federal grants which picked up approximately $2,200,000 and a special capital improvements fund which DAMA had set up several years ago, Bagley said. - “Compared to Wyoming Val- ley’s yearly rate of $98, our rates may appear rather expensive,” he said. “Actually, they're abargain.” - Although DAMA bills custom- ers inJackson and Lehman town- shipsdirectly, they have theirown separate municipal authorities and sewer lines, Bagley said. Both townships’ sewer lines tie into DAMA. Harveys Lake, which also has its own municipal authority, pays DAMA approximately $138,000 per year to tie into its line. ‘Employee of the ‘month at Meadows Dallas resident Ruth Herbert, L.P.N., has been chosen outstanding Em- ployee of the Month by her co-work- ers at Ecumenical Enterprises, Inc. Mrs. Herbert has been employed with EEl for 10 years and is charge nurse at the Meadows on the second floor, day shift. She is a graduate of Dallas High Schooland Wilkes-Barre City Schools Practical Nursing program. She resides in Dallas with her hus- band, Tim, and children, Mary, Amy and Timmy. Ray Condo, Executive Director of EEI, presented Mrs. Ruth Herbert with complimentary dinner and theater tickets for two. She will also receive a paid day off from work. (continued from page 1) dig up a line that no one knew existed. Coyle said when General Wa- terworks came to Dallas, it didn't even have a map of the system. With the assistance of his crews, he has had to compile one, while adding new lines as development of the area continues. Differing water line sizes and shallow water lines can play havoc with a system, especially during the winter, according to National Utilities manager Joe Bontrager. National Utilities owns the Midway Manor, Oak Hill, Rhodes Terrace and Warden Place water companies. “This winter we really took a beating out at Harveys Lake,” he said. “In many cases the water lines were buried only about a foot deep, and the frost line went down a good six feet. With most of Rhodes Terrace and about half of Warden Place being seasonal customers, we didn't have water running continuously through the lines, so they freze up quickly. We dug so many holes this winter that we had to spend the whole summer filling them in.” In some cases, a good jolt from an electric welder was the only way to thaw frozen distribution lines, Bontrager said. When a system develops prob- lems and a boil advisory is re- quired, the water company must get the word out to customers as quickly as possible, he said. Customers are advised to boil their water before drinking it whenever a line develops negative pressure, in which water lines with extremely low pressure suck water back out of household pipes, Bontrager said. “We try to get the TV and radio stations to announce boil adviso- ries, but we know that either they forget to or we'll miss customers who don’t have TV's or don’t have their radios on,” he said. ’ (continued from page 1) Garbush Water Company Sutton Hills, LTD LAKE TOWNSHIP Evergreen Mobile Home Park FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP Country Village Mobile Home Pk. DALLAS BOROUGH Homesite Water Co. DALLAS TOWNSHIP Pellam’s Terrace Valley view Mobile Home Park Dallas Mobile Home Park Dallas Water Co. Overbrook Water Co. Applewood Water Co. Orchard East Water Association _ Country Club Apartments Orchard West Water Ass'n. Meadows 1/Newberry 160 Anthony Garbush 200 homeowners’ association 140 George Vatsko 169 Elmer Reese 53 PG&W 105 David Pellam 846 Martin Oley 174 Mike Phillips, Mark Williams 5,073 General Waterworks 298 Casterline, Ford and Rinehoffer 82 James Wisnewski association Karson Management 90 association 50 association Penn State has its own water system. Chase Prison has four wells and a pipeline to the Ceasetown Reservoir Water tests nols). All water companies, regardless of their size, must comply with state and federal safe drinking water standards. According to materials supplied by General Waterworks, water companies must perform these tests on their water supplies: » Continuously: biological contaminants including giardia, le- giuonella (Legionnaires’ disease), coliform and various viruses. e Daily: turbidity (sediments): every four hours. * Yearly: lead, copper, nitrates. e Every three years: arsenic, cadmium, chromium, mercury, selenium, silver, flouride, barium, beryllium, cyanide, nickel, thallium, nitrites and asbestos. * Four quarterly samples taken every three years: carbon tetra- choloride, benzene, stylene, toluene, benzene and ethanol com- pounds, pesticides, herbicides and PCB's (poly-chlorinated biphe- Every four years: radon, uranium and two isotopes of radium. Standards for wells occasionally differ from those for surface water supplies (reservoirs) and filtration plants. 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