2030 Plan - Grand Strand Water and Sewer Authority

Core Strategies
• Produce and deliver high quality water consistent with customer expectations and
exceeding public health requirements.
• Provide treatment exceeding regulatory requirements and meeting the more
stringent guidelines of the EPA and SCDHEC Area-wide Optimization Program.
• Operate and maintain distribution facilities to exceed regulatory requirements for
quality, quantity and pressure throughout the system.
• Enhance water distribution model to improve ability to identify pressure, quantity
and quality needs and to evaluate alternatives for improvement.
• Develop and implement plans and practices to ensure production and delivery of
high quality water to customers.
• Pursue program improvements that protect the distribution system from damage
by outside forces.
Short Term Strategies/Goals
• Refine guidelines for optimized treatment and maintain a staff of certified
operators trained to achieve optimum treatment with available processes.
• Improve maintenance schedules and guidance and retain a staff of trained
maintenance personnel to provide a high level of equipment reliability.
• Establish budgets that maintain staffing, supplies and training to operate and
maintain treatment and distribution facilities at optimum levels.
• Expand monitoring of water quality parameters to additional sites to provide
continuous system-wide status.
• Expand Aquifer Storage and Recovery capacity by 1 MGD each year and
optimize injection/recovery and rehabilitation schedules to enhance this reliable
alternative source of high quality water.
• Complete calibration of comprehensive water transmission model and use to
analyze flow, pressure and age of water in all parts of the system during average
and extreme conditions.
B. Wastewater Quality
Core Strategies
• Collect, treat, and dispose wastewater consistent with customer expectations,
exceeding public health requirements and exceeding state and federal
requirements.
• Develop and implement plans and practices to ensure safe and reliable collection,
treatment and disposal of wastewater.
• Use hydraulic and process models to evaluate technologies, improve wastewater
treatment and maintain adequate capacity in the wastewater system.
• Provide for beneficial reuse of all water and wastewater treatment residuals and
increase reuse of treated effluent.
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