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The City of Lauderhill has requested that U.S. Water Services Corporation assist the City by providing relief operating services to augment the direct City Utility Operating Staff.  Services Began this month and as with many contracts throughout the State of Florida, U.S. Water will standby ready to provide relief operating services as needed by the City.

The Island Dunes Country Club has selected U.S. Water Services as the preferred contract operator to service the Wastewater and Reclaimed Water Treatment System located in Jensen Beach, St. Lucie County Florida.  U.S. Water will provide utility operating services 6 hours per day, 7 days a week with weekly inspections to the associated 6 remote lift stations. The contact stabilization Wastewater Treatment Facility is permitted at  0.12 MGD with secondary domestic wastewater treatment consisting of two surge basins, two re-aeration basins, two clarifiers, one filter dosing basin, two gravity filters, a chlorine contact chamber, two digesters as well as six remote lift stations. Treated effluent meeting the effluent reuse limitations set forth in facility permit is captured in storage pond allowing a slow-rate public access providing water for irrigation to the Island Dunes 63 acre golf course.

In conjunction with the planning of the Pasco County Government, The Aloha Utility System was purchased by the FGUA in February 2009.  U.S. Water Services Corporation was selected by the FGUA as the preferred provider to operate and maintain the water, wastewater and reclaimed facilities, associated infrastructure and provide billing/collection services. Now known as the FGUA Pasco System,  the Aloha Utility System – previously existed as the second largest privately held utility system in the State of Florida while serving 17,400 connections and a population of approximately 45,000.  U.S. Water Services is assisting the FGUA and the County of Pasco in resolving publicized water quality problems that have plagued the system over many years. 

The system facilities are located and permitted within two service areas within southwest Pasco County known as the Aloha Gardens and Seven Springs service areas.  The total system consists of 11 individual Water Treatment Plants with combined production of 4.0 MGD.  The WWTF capacity totals 2.1 MGD with separate flow received direct by Pasco County totaling 0.48 MGD.  The WWTF is an extended air treatment facility with mechanical screening and grit removal, effluent traveling bridge filter, 2.3 million gallons of reject effluent storage and 17.1 million gallons of total reclaimed water storage. 

Contract value totals approximately $26,000,000.00 covering an initial contract term of 5 years.

The City of Marathon, Florida awarded an O&M contract to U.S. Water on 09/01/08 by way of open response to a request for proposal.U.S. Water was one of three bidders for the contract.We thank Scott Lewis, Donny Jaynes, Julia Sawyer and Melissa Rotteveel for their great efforts to secure this contract, which was also assisted by the reputation maintained by the staff “on the ground” providing critical services in the Keys area.  The Florida Keys have been designated as an "Area of Critical State Concern" by FDEP and as such are under intense scrutiny from the State regulatory bodies and require a high level of operator knowledge to meet all of the additional requirements imposed by the State relating to wastewater systems in that area.  U.S. Water Services Corporation evaluated the operational needs and requirements of the various service areas included in the City of Marathon wastewater utility operations; devised a staffing plan that provides FDEP required coverage and takes full advantage of economies of scale that our established local presence allows us to offer the City.  USWSC employs talented fulltime Florida certified operators and maintenance/residuals technicians which are permanently stationed in the Florida Keys.   Among many other sites, we also operate the Plantation Key Colony WWTP on behalf of the Village of Islamorada, which treats wastewater from North Plantation Key and several other communities that are in the process of tying into that facility.