For immediate release: 7/11/2019
Gene Mancebo, General Manager
Amador Water Agency, 209-223-3018
PHOTO ATTACHED: Amador County Board of Supervisors Chair Brian Oneto presents AWA Board President Paul Molinelli, Jr. with a formal resolution congratulating AWA on 60 years of service and commending AWA’s contribution to quality of life in Amador County. Also pictured, left to right: AWA Directors Rich Farrington, Art Toy, and Susan Peters.
(Sutter Creek) The Amador Water Agency was congratulated on 60 years of service to Amador County by the Amador County Board of Supervisors at the Supervisors’ July 9 Board meeting.
At the Supervisors’ meeting, AWA General Manager Gene Mancebo presented a slide show with highlights of AWA accomplishments dating from the Water Agency’s founding as a special district in 1959.
At the conclusion of the slide show, the Supervisors approved a resolution commending the Agency’s contribution to quality of life in Amador County, including:
Construction of the upcountry’s Central Amador Water Project (or CAWP) when wells stopped producing during a drought in the 1970s;
Ending a 20-year moratorium on new hook-ups in Plymouth with completion of the Plymouth Pipeline;
Making great strides in water conservation by construction of the Amador Transmission Pipeline and three recycling plants;
Reducing carbon emissions and energy costs by completing the Gravity Supply Line and generating hydroelectric power;
Collaborating with Amador County Fire Protection Agencies to improve reliability and fire flows in order to protect communities throughout the county;
Successfully securing millions of dollars of state and federal grant funds allowing the Agency to make major infrastructure improvements and replacements at little or no cost to Amador County ratepayers.
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