GLWA Experiences Break on Leaking 42-inch Water Main in Auburn Hills’ River Woods Park
-> GLWA’s 42-inch water main is back in service and is now providing water at normal pressures to the impacted communities through their connection points to the regional water transmission system;
-> The impacted communities are now working toward flushing their local water systems
-> Residents and businesses of Orion Township, the Village of Lake Orion, Auburn Hills, and the City of Rochester Hills should look to their municipalities for direction on the lifting of water use restrictions
-> The boil water advisories remain in place for Orion Township, the Village of Lake Orion, the northern section of Auburn Hills and the northwest corner of Rochester Hills
-> GLWA’s water trucks continue distributing one-gallon containers of water at three locations throughout the impacted communities
Find all updates regarding the main break here.
La GLWA está experimentando una ruptura en una tubería principal de 42 pulgadas ubicada en River Woods Park, Auburn Hills. Click aquí para mayor información
GLWA becomes part of Leading Utilities of the World
GLWA was one of five utilities from across the world recently invited to become a part of the Leading Utilities of the World (LUOW) initiative. LUOW is a network of the world’s most successful, forward-thinking and innovative water and wastewater utilities.
Created to help drive performance across the service sector, the network provides the LUOW utilities a platform to share ideas and challenges, and to inspire innovation.
GLWA is one of just 49 utilities from across the globe that have been inaugurated into the initiative since it began in 2017. LUOW’s members represent the Gold Standard of utility innovation and performance throughout the developed world’s water sector. Membership is by invitation only.
In order to be accepted into the network, GLWA presented its three most outstanding innovation successes to the LUOW Advisory Board at the organization’s annual American Water Summit in November 2019. CEO Sue McCormick’s presentation included highlights of GLWA’s achievements in Network Operation via public agency collaboration to address service redundancy for the city of Flint and communities in Genesee, Lapeer and St. Clair Counties; Environmental Impact Improvements with the retirement of six incinerators at the Authority’s Water Resource Recovery Facility, beneficial reuse of biosolids via a public-private partnership Biosolids Dryer Facility, and completion of a Rouge River Outfall project addressing a long-term water quality improvement objective at a fraction of the cost of prior approaches; and, in the area of Human Resource Development/Stakeholder Engagement GLWA’s apprenticeship programs and One Water Institute supporting GLWA and member partners’ team member development needs.