Backup water supply

I get various newsletters and things in my mayor mailbox. One that I recently got was a newsletter from the Central Iowa Water Association. They are a rural water group based out of Newton.

Anyway, and I knew this from my stint on the city council, but I wanted to pass this along, as it might not be widely known. Our city water supply has a hookup to Central Iowa Water. So if we ever had a massive failure in our town's water supply, or had a big fire, and needed more water, we could turn on the valve, and get supplied from Central Iowa Water.

Some of our neighbors already use them as their water supply, such as McCallsburg, Zearing, and Colo, along with probably 30 other towns. Fifteen towns have hookups for emergency supply only just like us, the closest being State Center and Union.

So no plans here to switch, our wells are doing well! But I think it was a good decision by some past council to get us a hookup to them, in case we were to have an emergency.