Bolton Point Water Clinches Top Honors at
2012 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 2012 event was held May 6, at the Ithaca Farmers' Market.
May 6, 2012
One hundred and fifty people offered their opinions on the taste of water supplied by seven 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 City of Ithaca Water Treatment Plant, held the Tompkins County drinking water taste test at the Ithaca Farmer's market on Sunday, May 6, 2012.
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.
Voters determined that Bolton Point has the best tasting water in the county, beating six other participating water treatment plants.
The Cornell water treatment plant came in a very close second, while the Ithaca and Dryden water treatment plants tied for third. In no particular order, the Trumansburg, Newfield, and the Groton 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 the City of Ithaca Water Treatment Plant.
Previous year's results are listed below.
PREVIOUS WINNERS:
First place winners of prior year's taste tests are as follows:
| 2012 |
Bolton Point |
| 2011 |
Bolton Point |
| 2010 |
Bolton Point |
| 2009 |
Bolton Point |
| 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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