Longboat receives water award

By Kurt Schultheis
| 4:00 a.m. July 15, 2011

The town's Public Works Department won an award that communities in eight Southern states were eligible to receive.

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The town of Longboat Key was awarded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 4 2010 Consumer Confidence Excellence Award for the island’s water system supply.

The award was based, in part, on the town’s easy-read drinking water consumer confidence quality reports mailed out annually and compiled by Public Works Office Manager Donna Spencer.

“We feel this is a great honor and look forward to continuing the high level of service and notification to our customers,” wrote town engineer Anne Ross in a July 14 memo to Town Manager Bruce St. Denis.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection selected the town’s 2010 report to represent the state in an Environmental Protection Agency award program.

Communities in the running for the award in District 4 also included Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.

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