PIERRE – The South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) announced today that the Town of Colome public water system and the system’s operation specialists have been awarded a Drinking Water Certificate of Achievement Award.
“We cannot live without water; it is just that simple,” said DENR Secretary Steve Pirner. “With these awards, DENR salutes the best-of-the-best drinking water systems and operation specialists who deliver safe water 24 hours-a-day to their customers and successfully met all the of the requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act last year.”
The system’s operation specialist was Dave Witt.
To qualify for the Drinking Water Certificate of Achievement Award, public water systems and their system operations specialists had to meet all of the following requirements for 2016:
• compliance monitoring and reporting,
• drinking water standards, and
• certification requirements.