Projects add Value and Service for Customers

GCWW goals include optimizing treatment and operations to provide high quality water.  We also strive to be a leader in regional solutions to improve water quality and supply.  Some  projects helping us achieve these goals are:

• In 2010, GCWW will begin installing the ultraviolet disinfection treatment technology which has been identified by the US EPA as one of the best available technologies and adds an additional level of protection to ensure public health. A component of the UV project will be the installation of solar panels atop the new facility and a second installation on existing facilities. The combined project is designed to protect public health with advanced water treatment technology and protect the environment by advancing the use of solar energy.
• For GCWW to maintain it high standard of quality and reliability, it replaces over 30 miles of water mains each year. In June 2009, GCWW will begin Phase II of the Grandin Road Water Main Replacement Project. This project will replace outdated water mains along Grandin Road between Madison Road and Edwards Road.
• A new "H20 Radio" automated meter reader system allows employees to read meters from computers in vans, without entering homes.  In 2003, VSI Group, Inc., a GCWW contractor, started installing about 200 H₂O Radio meters a day. The project completed in 2007.
• Greater Cincinnati Water Works now supplies water to Boone County and Florence, Kentucky, via a pipeline under the Ohio River.  The 29-year contract, approved in 1999, represents one of the largest interstate water service agreements in the United States