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TO <br /> Orenco Systems"Incorporated <br /> • <br /> Rural Water Utility Builds Customer Base with Wastewater <br /> South Alabama Utilities(SAID),a rural utility on the outskirts of Mobile County,provides water set-vice to <br /> 13,000 customers and gas service to 6,000."We've been serving a large part of rural Mobile County since the <br /> '50s,"says Executive Director Bob Craft"But we were accustomed to keeping a low profile." <br /> -j c By the late 1990s,new development and potential new <br /> customers were heading SAU s way."For SAU to compete <br /> for new development,we felt it was essential that sewers <br /> be made available in areas where we already had water <br /> .......t <br /> to i mfi'astructure in place,"says Donnie Cunningham SAI�'s <br /> // construction superintendent. In the areas we currently <br /> ® t&} fl serve,utthties don t have exclusive terutoiies.We were on <br /> t the verge of losing potential new customers that we felt <br /> } ` f could have been ours." <br /> 41y ` To serve the subdivisions that were springing up <br /> r i �i throughout western Mobile County,SAIJ was encouraged <br /> < to get into the wastewater business by local developer <br /> j t 3 s au Steve Brewer,a partner in Brewer PIonnes with his son, <br /> Eric.Steve learned about affordable,envhonmentally- <br /> P tav sound Decentralized wastewater Treatment(DWT) <br /> technologies as he talked to builders around the country <br /> in his role as one of the directors of the National <br /> o o fllc l r I Association of Home Builders. <br /> fi l K' <br /> "We were having such a difficult time finding land where <br /> we could install conventional septic systems,"says Steve. <br /> v "I kept asking other builders if there were alternatives. <br /> �,... <br /> And it tarns out there were."Subsequently,Steve found <br /> a technical ally in Di Kevin White,a professor of civil <br /> engineering at the University of South Alabama and a <br /> vocal proponent of utility-managed DWT. <br /> In just a few short years,SAC has built a growing network <br /> of utility-managed DWT systems...one that is fast <br /> w becoming a national model Its nine DWT Facilities will,a <br /> full build-out,have the capacity to handle half a million <br /> gallons of wastewater per day.That's enough capacity to <br /> yr at` serve about 2,000 new homes,at peak design flows. <br /> Currently there are 15 utility-maintained decentralized <br /> wastewater treatment systems in the Mobile,Alabama area. <br /> South Alabama utilities maintains nine at them. <br /> ACS-SL-10 <br /> 2006 C.—Systems®Inc. Rev.1.11©2106 <br /> Page i of 4 <br /> 1 <br />