Bolton Point Water Clinches Top Honors
at 2008 Tompkins County Taste Test
Health Department staff served up
tasting samples from seven area water systems during Water
Week 2007 festivities at the Farmers' Market. (The weather
for the 2008 event was more friendly!) The event is co-hosted
be the Tompkins County Health Department and the Cornell Cooperative
Extension of Tompkins County.
May 5, 2008
Over 250 people offered their opinions on
the taste of water supplied by 7 municipal water treatment plants
within Tompkins County, with Bolton Point Water System receiving
the highest number of favored votes. The Tompkins County Health
Department in conjunction with the Cornell Cooperative Extension
of Tompkins County held the Tompkins County water taste test
at the Ithaca Farmer's market on Saturday.
This friendly competition is put on to recognize all of the
water treatment plants for the work they do to provide safe
potable drinking water to the residents of Tompkins County.
Fifty-three people said Bolton Point has the best tasting water
in the county, beating six other participating water treatment
plants.
The Trumansburg water treatment plant and the Village of Groton
water plant tied for second at 46 votes each. In no particular
order, Cornell, Dryden, City of Ithaca and Newfield water treatment
plants comprised the remainder of the field.
The Bolton Point water treatment plant will now represent our
county in an upcoming regional competition held by the New York
State Department of Health.
Contact: Chris Laverack, Public Health Sanitarian
607-274-6688
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The taste test is a component of National Drinking Water
Week events, co-hosted by the Tompkins County Division of
Environmental Health and Cornell Cooperative Extension.
Previous year's results are listed below.
PREVIOUS WINNERS:
First place winners of prior year's taste tests are as follows:
| 2008 |
Bolton Point |
| 2007 |
Trumansburg |
| 2006 |
Bolton Point |
| 2005 |
Bolton Point |
| 2004 |
Bolton Point |
| 2003 |
City of Ithaca |
| 2002 |
Trumansburg |
| 2001 |
Bolton Point |
| 2000 |
Bolton Point |
| 1999 |
Groton |
| 1998 |
Bolton Point |
| 1997 |
Bolton Point and Cornell tied |
| 1996 |
Bolton Point |
| 1995 |
Bolton Point |
| 1994 |
Trumansburg |
Additional sites to visit:
American Water
Works Association City
of Ithaca (Go to 'Boards and Committees' and then to 'Natural
Areas Commission')
Environmental
Protection Agency
National Ground
Water Association
Cayuga
Lake Watershed Network
Ithaca
Farmer's Market
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