April 2016
Greg Lyons / 21 years
Greg Lyons, Infiltration/Inflow (I/I) Inspector, recently celebrated 21 years of service with GUC. He is part of the Water Resources team that inspects, cleans, and maintains the gravity sewer lines on GUC's system. Greg's main responsibility is to run the TV...
In honor of Earth Day, our Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) held an open house on April 22nd. Customers and residents were able to tour the facility, see lab and garden demos, and take home compost made by a company that uses dewatered biosolids from our dewatering facility at the plant....
As you know, we are in the final phase of our OPTICS project. Navigate is the implementation of Customer Care & Billing (CC&B) and Mobile Workforce Management (MWM), to name a few, and it will connect all of the previously implemented Oracle products and other tools to the customer....
The GUC Board of Commissioners held its regular monthly meeting on April 21, 2016. Here are the highlights of those meetings:
ElectriCities Cooperative Bid Agreement Renewal. Historically, GUC has entered into a Cooperative Bid Agreement with ElectriCities allowing GUC to...
GUC's Neighbor to Neighbor program recently received a generous donation of $10,250 from the Presbyterian Women of First Presbyterian Church. They raised the funds through their annual Taste Testing Luncheon that includes a raffle and bake sale. This year's event highlighted local restaurants...
Ryan Hardee came to Greenville Utilities 26 years ago as a part-time tree trimmer. Today, he works as an Underground Electric Distribution Supervisor, a promotion he received just a few days before his interview for this article.
A native of Ayden and a graduate of Ayden Grifton High...
The Annual Contractor Awareness/Damage Prevention Breakfast and Seminar was held on April 14th at the Electric/Water Resources Maintenance Building. This annual event is sponsored by the Pitt County Utilities Coordinating Committee (PCUCC), along with NC811, CenturyLink, Suddenlink, Greenville...
We are excited about the new Customer Self Service section on our website that will go live early this summer. More than just a better user-interface which is also mobile-friendly, you will be able to take advantage of new features that will give you more flexibility in how you manage your GUC...
Lisa Briley, Administrative Assistant in the Electric Department, recently retired after 20 years with Greenville Utilities. Lisa worked closely with Roger Jones, Director of Electric Systems, and her administrative staff to ensure that all of the department's administrative functions, including...
With an eye to the future, the Greenville Utilities Board of Commissioners voted in April to move towards the potential purchase of land to relocate the Operations Center, currently located at 801 Mumford Road. The 82 acre site under consideration is located on NC Highway 43 and adjacent to the...