Conference Report includes approval of funding for several projects important to Alabama. Although the funding goes directly to individual communities, ADEM submitted the list of communities and projects that they felt were most deserving of this funding. ADEM has pledged to work not only with the communities, but also the EPA to perform the work necessary to improve the water supply in these communities.
Geneva County has many small, rural, public water systems.
Without a source water assessment, consumer confidence report and chemical monitoring requirements, these small water systems will not remain financially or technically viable. The Goodwater surface water treatment plant fails to meet existing water treatment requirements. For years, TVA has provided a majority of the water quality monitoring for the Tennessee River Basin. This was done to optimize limited funding and to avoid duplication in the area. During the last decade, TVA has steadily reduced their monitoring of the basin, stretching ADEM s already limited funds, and thus requiring assistance from Federal sources.