COUNTY News:
The community is invited to take a tour provided by Los Alamos County on Friday, July 10 to learn all about how water makes the journey to local faucets.
The tour runs from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., starting at the Water Production Division office at the Pajarito Cliffs Site that includes a visit to the water system control room for an overview of SCADA and seeing remote monitoring of a very large system in real time.
Next, the tour travels to the Guaje Well Field in Rendija Canyon where participants will step inside a well house and its neighboring booster station to learn how water is taken from the earth and moved to water tanks all over Los Alamos County.
- What is SCADA? (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)
- How many people does it take to ensure 20,000 community members have clean drinking water?
- Where does local water come from? And how does it get to local homes?
- How deep are local wells?
- How much water do Los Alamos County’s tanks hold?
Space is limited so register here. DPU will contact all participants during the week prior to the tour. In the unlikely event that the water system tour must be canceled or rescheduled, registered participants will be notified via email. If participants must cancel, they are encouraged to notify DPU as early as possible.
Tour participants will meet on Friday, July 10 outside the Water Production Division office at Pajarito Cliffs Site, Building 5. Atomic City Transit will shuttle participants between sites. The tour guide will share information between sites as the drive time is considerable. Courtesy/LAC
