The Water Department oversees the City’s Water Distribution System which consists of approximately 125-miles of water mains, ranging in size from 4 to 18 inches in diameter. The City’s water system is presently served by 4 active wells and has 3-storage tanks with a total capacity of 3.5 million gallons, which service approximately 4,200 connections throughout the central area of the City.
The department also maintains jurisdictional fire hydrants, flushing programs, repairs to both mainline and right-of-way leaks, provides will-serve documents, responds to customer requests, fire flow testing and dig alerts, reads water meters on a monthly basis and collects water quality samples on a weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual schedule to ensure that local, state and federal standards are continuously upheld.