President’s Report

The BLSMWC Board met on Saturday, September 11 via Zoom. The highlight from the meeting included the extraordinary efforts of the Long Range Strategic Planning Committee (LRPC) led by Tom Schneider who reported on the water usage throughout 2021, the status of future work to be done, and the asset management plan. For more information,…

Shareholders: The BLSMWC Board held its first hybrid Board meeting with Board members and employees meeting in person and via Zoom. It was great to finally meet in person afer 14 months of Zoom meetings. As you know, Dave Hicks, our General Manager for many years and 34‐year employee of the BLSMWC, retired in June.…

The Blue Lake Springs Mutual Water Company’s Annual Meeting was held via ZOOM on June 5th. The hope is that future Annual Meetings will be held in person. Most notable at this meeting was the final Board Meeting in Dave Hick’s long and distinguished career. Dave will move on to a well earned and deserved…

Going over a past number of Bubbler publications, I have mentioned rather repeatedly the need for CONSERVATION. While you might be tired of reading references to the need to CONSERVE, that need is critically before us. Not because I like talking about it but due to the lack of water from the last two winter’s…

Since the inception of the Bubbler (by the way … do you know what a Bubbler is or was? You can find the answer at the end of my report!) I have mentioned the word CONSERVATION or CONSERVE several times, in fact perhaps too many times. CONSERVE comes from the Latin language, which I studied…

The BLSMWC Board of Directors met on March 6th via ZOOM and the meeting was one of the shortest on record for the simple reason that for the past 3 ½ years meetings were driven in a large part by the improvement project which is now complete. One of the main goals of the USDA…

Now THAT was a snowstorm. I hope everyone got through it ok. The Water Company’s generators insured that water was deliverable and we were able to keep our office emergency lines open (intermittently) to serve any customer needs. I have a couple of words for the month: #1 WINTERIZING Winterizing is a fancy word for…

First and foremost: Happy New Year!! 2021 will be a better year, if we give it a chance. If you are wondering where are Mozingo’s heavy trucks and construction equipment, they left in late December. The 12.2M dollar system improvement project is complete and, in a few days the remaining paperwork will be signed with…

Over the past few months, I have indicated that the Project is coming to a close. Now all is finally complete. Mozingo has packed up their equipment and moved onto another job site. As the Project’s Contractor, they did an incredible job, and the Water Company is very pleased with their performance and delivery of…

Included in the past few Bubblers, I have alluded to the impending conclusion of the infrastructure project. That moment is now before us. Final touches and “punch-list” work are starting to be addressed which are signs that the project is truly coming to a close. There a lot of folks to thank: Dave Hicks, the…