April 2016
Turning river water into drinking water is quite a task - with a lot of steps. It all begins with bringing water from the Tar River into the Water Treatment Plant's (WTP's) pre-settling impoundment area. The untreated water settles in this area for six days while heavy solids sink to the bottom...
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...