2018 Seasonal Water Turn-on Update as of 5 April 2018

5 April 2018

Seasonal water service, as defined by the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is the period between 1 May and 1 October each year.  Our goal is to establish service as soon as safely possible in April and run  through the third Thursday in October, this year that is 18 October 2018.  At the time of writing this post the temperature outside is a balmy 21 degrees F or -6C for those in the rest of the world.  We need temperatures above freezing.
That said, our TENTATIVE (meaning not cast-in-stone, not Guaranteed, but our goal!) start -up schedule is as follows:

1. Complete all repairs of winter damage to the seasonal system by 12 April 2018;
2. Flood, flush, disinfect and biologically clear the seasonal system by 17 April 2018; and
3. Complete all service installation by 27 April 2018.

Again we can not stress this enough, this schedule is TENTATIVE !  We here at the Boothbay Region Water District fully understand that getting the seasonal water system up and running is the backbone of the summer season and we take our task very seriously.  However we need to balance the customer pressure to get back here to God’s country, with the tasks of establishing service that not only meets our customers needs, but also establish service in a manner that is both safe for our customers and our infrastructure.  Rest assured this is our #1 priority and our staff are doing everything within their power to establish service as soon as possible.
Please check in regularly to track our progress….