1:
INITIAL OPERATIONS CHALLENGES

2: PROJECT
BACKGROUND

3: ALLIANCE
ACHIEVEMENTS

1: Initial Operations Challenges

• The City of Clinton had little or no
  control over its own water system, which was owned by a
  large electric utility. City officials did not wish to incur
  the long-term debt necessary to acquire the water system
  from the private electric utility.
• The system’s raw water source on the Grand
  River in the upper reaches of the Truman Reservoir was of
  poor quality. Raw water quality was highly variable, ranging
  from high turbidity to high algae concentrations with periods
  of extreme organic content and odor-causing compounds.
• The surface water treatment plant consisted
  of an aging, single-stage system with limited capabilities
  for handling occasional water taste and odor problems stemming
  from the raw water source.

2: Project Background

The Henry County Water Company is a not-for-profit
corporation formed by the City of Clinton in 1983 with Alliance’s
guidance. Its management is vested in a board of directors,
which includes the City Administrator and four citizen members.
Alliance provides complete contract management services, including
operations and maintenance of the water treatment plant, maintenance
and repair of the water distribution system, and billing,
management, and administration for 4,600 customer connections
serving some 9,800 people.

In 1999, the water company constructed
and placed into service a new 2.4 mgd water supply to treat
a high quality raw water source from an underground quarry.
The new plant is a single pass pulsator flocculator/clarifier
with dual media gravity filtration.

Alliance Water Resources has furnished
the entire management, administrative, operations, and maintenance
staff for the water utility since its inception in 1983.

3: Alliance
Achievements

• Calling upon its expertise with financing
  and funding structures for water and wastewater systems,
  Alliance assisted the City of Clinton with the formation
  of a city-owned not-for-profit corporation to acquire and
  operate the water system on behalf of the citizens of Clinton.
• Alliance then conducted negotiations on behalf
  of the city to acquire the system, essentially forming a
  complete utility, recruiting and training staff, acquiring
  all necessary equipment, and setting up an automated business
  office with computerized billing, collection, administration
  and management services.
• To address existing water quality problems,
  Alliance tested and selected an alternative chemical treatment
  regime and improved operation.
• In 1999, with guidance from Alliance, Henry
  County Water Company completed construction of an innovative
  new water supply which draws on a high quality underground
  quarry raw water source, and uses a new single stage water
  treatment plant.
• Alliance provided management and planning
  for the financing, design, and construction of the new supply
  facilities, resulting in a capital savings of over $1.5
  million. The new supply provides increased capacity and
  a high quality finished water supply for the citizens of
  Clinton.