Gunstock Acres Village Water District
On May 30, 1981 the citizens of Gunstock Acres voted to create the Gunstock Acres Village District, pursuant to RSA Chapter 52. It was subsequently renamed, Gunstock Acres Village Water District, to reflect the district’s purpose.
The Gunstock Acres community has continued to grow over the ensuing years and the Water District has been able to live up to the challenge of servicing the ever growing community. We are now delivering more than 80,000 gallons of water per day and the District services over 750 accounts. Today, the water district is fully prepared to absorb the needs of all possible growth in our community.
The Water District is self funding accruing no cost to the Town of Gilford. Our operation is funded by assessment to the members of our community and a precinct tax leveled at the property owners.
Several years ago when we were faced with a severe drought it became apparent to the commissioners that we needed new water sources and updated equipment to take better advantage of the existing water sources. After a thorough review of the possible routes toward solving our problems the Commissioners decided to look for new sources of water rather than constructing storage facilities. Since that decision we have drilled the new wells all yielding a significant amount of water. One of those is on line and the other two have just received temporary approvals from the State Department of Environmental Services. We expect to receive final approval in the early spring months. Those wells added to our existing seven will insure that we have the water to meet all possible needs.
We have also been busy updating our pump operations by installing Variable Frequency Controls that help to optimize our use of water. We have updated all of our processing systems in order to insure the continued safety of our water. In order to have tighter controls over water conservation we are also in the process of computerizing the full operation. We are presently in the process of acquiring and installing a SCADA system to insure a high degree of conservation. The SCADA system will allow us to quickly locate leakage problems that caused us difficulties in the past. Our next step is to acquire emergency generators for our pump stations so that we might continue to service our residents through any power outage. To date all of this has been accomplished without
the need for external financing, we pride ourselves on an efficient operation.
The District continues to be operated with an eye to the future.
Our operator is Wade Crawshaw, C&C Water Services.
For all new water connections please contact our water operator.
Commissioners
Bob Dalton, John T. O’Brien, Howard Epstein
Clerk
Susan Dalton
Treasurer
Dr. Robert Dion
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