The Radford City Water Treatment Plant has been selected to receive the 2007 Virginia’s Excellence in Waterworks Performance Award.

The award, from the Virginia Department of Health Office of Drinking Water, recognizes outstanding filter performance at waterworks facilities across the Commonwealth.

Her most recent experience was working for the Anna Maria Island Chamber of Commerce, where she and the Chamber President “basically ran the place;” coordinating volunteers, keeping their website fresh, and welcoming the thousands of “snow birds” that flock to the Island every year.

As Plant Superintendent Lawrence Rice explains, the industry standard for filtration is to find less than one NTU (nephelometic turbidity unit) in 95% of all water measured.

According to Rice, Radford’s Water Treatment Plant has gone well above this requirement and has been meeting industry standard 100% of the time.
Rice says the outstanding performance can be attributed to the “diligence of the operators” at the plant.

“I am very pleased with their continued hard work,” he said.

This is the third consecutive year that the Water Treatment Plant has received this award.