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CAUD meeting 10 May 2018 - Excellent reports. Calm. Secure 2018-05-11 - CAUD 109 Grant Lane, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. The May 10, 2018 regular session of the Columbia/Adair Utilities Commission was had all members present, including Chair Wid Harris, lower left corner, who has had to be absent from some recent meetings. Around the table, clockwise, are CAUD Board members Doug Sapp, Junior Brown, CAUD Field Supervisor Jeff Wooldridge, General Manage Lenny Stone, and CAUD Board Member Mike Newton and Vice Chair David Jones. At left is Adair County Sheriff Harrison Moss, who randomly attends CAUD meetings, as well as when "noise" indicates a need for higher security. (Monitor at top of frame allows checks of activities around the parking lots and perimeter of building). Reports from Mr. Stone included slow but positive progress on the utility's natural gas distribution plans, with more potential customer and supply interests; excellent operations reports, including the systems readiness to combat algae bloom in Green River Lake, successfully handled in 2017 following Member Doug Sapp's insistence in the fall of 2016 that the utility be prepared for annual, predictable occurrence, and new protocols made the water taste so good last year that customers didn't notice what had taken place in the lake. Reports from the Water Plant, Wastewater Plant, and Financial Reports were also given. David Bowles, CEO and Chief Engineer for Monarch Engineering reported on another CAUD undertaking so competently and untrusively nearing completion by Columbia's Stott's Construction company - the Burkesville Phase of the Downtown Project - which it is being completed without all the attention it deserves. Mr. Bowles said he expects the project will be complete, and in use in June of 2018. Also present at the meeting: Marshall Loy, the board attorney; Adair County Judge Executive Mike Stephens, and members of the media. - EW Permalink | Comments?

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