Clockville Water District #1 Update as of 9/23/21 The cooperative project between Madison County, their contractors and OCWA is fully operational. AT THIS POINT, DO NOT ALLOW YOUR CONTRACTOR TO DISCONNECT YOUR WELL FROM YOUR DWELLING. INSPECTION BY TOWN CODE ENFORCEMENT IS REQUIRED BEFORE OCWA WILL INSTALL A METER. PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL OFFICE: Lincoln [...]
The Onondaga County Water Authority will hold a special meeting to discuss potential capital improvements to the OCWA water system on Friday, September 3, 2021, at 2:30 pm at its offices on Northern Concourse, Town of Salina, New York.
OCWA–Central New York’s Water Authority–will begin the first phase of a water main replacement project along Brickyard Falls in the Town of Manlius and Ravenswood Lane in the Village of Manlius starting 9-2-21. Activities associated with water main replacement projects are fluid, and ever changing as the work progresses. Our foremost concern is the safety [...]
Work at Fairmount Reservoir continues and the first of two new 6MG tanks takes shape. The pre-cast concrete wall panels have all been lifted into place, seamed together and the first layers of wire and concrete have been applied. The scaffolding and formwork is in place for about half of the roof, which will be [...]
Clockville Water District #1 Update as of 8/18/21 The cooperative project between Madison County, their contractors and OCWA will be coming online in sections over the coming weeks. AT THIS POINT, DO NOT ALLOW YOUR CONTRACTOR TO DISCONNECT YOUR WELL FROM YOUR DWELLING. In both Towns, inspection of your contractor’s installation of the water main [...]
OCWA–Central New York’s Water Authority–will begin the first phase of a water main replacement project along Knoll Place in the Town of Salina the week of 7-26-21. Activities associated with water main replacement projects are fluid, and ever changing as the work progresses. Our foremost concern is the safety of the residents and our working [...]
As part of OCWA’s monthly series highlighting some of our dedicated employees and the important jobs they perform, this month we’re featuring Robert D. from our Engineering Department. Each month we’re asking a different employee a series of ten questions about his/her background, what he/she does at OCWA and some of the employee’s most interesting [...]
OCWA has begun flushing portions of the water distribution system in the Town of Camillus. Flushing will be conducted Sunday through Thursday evenings, between 10:00 pm and 7:00 am through the summer and early fall, as weather and conditions permits. The purpose of flushing is to improve water quality, water pressure and fire flows for [...]
Since the groundbreaking in April of this year, the Contractor at our Fairmount Reservoir facility has been making great progress. The first of two new concrete water storage tanks is ready to receive concrete for the foundation and floor. The Contractor has scheduled this activity to occur on Saturday June 26th. The pouring of the [...]
As part of OCWA's dedicated maintenance program for our water storage facilities, we recently performed exterior cleaning of the following four elevated water storage tanks: 1) Hidden Knolls (Town of Camillus) 2) Liverpool (Village of Liverpool) 3) Constantia (Town of Constantia) 4) Limeledge (Town of Skaneateles) The cleaning not only involved cosmetic improvements to the [...]
