AUB Issues Annual Water Quality Report

Media Contact:

Wayne Scarbrough

(423) 745-4501 ext. 6002

wscarbrough@aub.org

March 25, 2019

Athens, Tenn. – The Athens Utilities Board (AUB) has completed its annual Water Quality Report for the 2018 reporting year and is distributing the document to interested consumers.

The Water Quality Report includes information on the origin and treatment of AUB water and detailed data generated from water sampling and testing throughout 2017.

For the period, AUB water quality exceeded all state and federal water quality standards.

To ensure system-wide superior water, AUB performs year-round tests at wells and springs, at AUB’s plant where source water is treated, at points throughout the distribution system, and at selected homes and businesses.

“The Water Quality Report details where your water comes from, how we test it, scrutinize it and treat it throughout the year and throughout the community.  The data table shows how our community’s water measures up against strict state and federal standards,” AUB’s Wayne Scarbrough said.

AUB-supplied drinking water comes from the community’s Ingleside spring and from wells that tap an underground aquifer that parallels Oostanaula Creek in Athens. Water from these sources is treated at AUB’s filter plant.  A third water source is the Hiwassee Utility Commission, which supplements AUB’s water supply with treated surface water from the Hiwassee River.

The 2018 report is available on AUB’s website in the “Documents Library” on the home page, or at www.aub.org/uploads/WQR2018.pdf.

“We in the Tennessee Valley are fortunate to have abundant water for many uses ranging from recreation, power generation, irrigation, industry, and of course most importantly to sustain life.  We are proud to be the community’s source of finished clean drinking water,” Scarbrough said.

AUB distributes copies of the report to strategic locations throughout the service area, such as schools, nursing homes, industrial plants, and municipal facilities.

The report is also available at the AUB main office at 100 New Englewood Road in Athens or by calling 745-4501.

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