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TAUD REGION 2 MEETING Provided by Beth Hardiman
FUD Wins Best Tasting Water Contest

The Tennessee Association of Utility Left to right: Seth Rye; Dr. Margaret Ann Jeffries; Chris Smith, Gary Massey, Jeremy Moody, and Craig Mayes
Districts held the Region Two “Best of First Utility District of Knox County; and Robert Ramsey
Tasting Water Contest” at the Alcoa
Service Center on Wednesday, March 1. months. The winner of each region will February of 2018.
First Utility District of Knox County was participate in a statewide competition at Founded in 1957, The Tennessee
awarded Best Tasting Water in Region TAUD’s Business of Running A Utility
Two. Conference at the Gatlinburg Convention Association of Utility Districts celebrates
Center on August 10. The statewide 60 years in 2017 as the state’s first source
TAUD Region Two consists of: Blount, winner will then represent Tennessee in of training, technical assistance, and
Cocke, Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson, the Great American Taste Test held in advocacy for over 400 water, wastewater,
Knox, Loudon, and Sevier counties. conjunction with the National Rural Water and natural gas utility members in the
Association Rally in Washington, D.C. in state of Tennessee. For more information
Other participating utilities from please visit the website at www.taud.org.
Region Two were: City of Alcoa, Hallsdale
Powell Utility District, Knox-Chapman
Utility District, Lenoir City Utilities
Board, Maryville Water Quality Control,
Northeast Knox Utility District, and West
Knox Utility District.

Seth Rye of Rye Engineering, Robert
Ramsey of TDEC and Dr. Margaret Ann
Jeffries of Pellissippi State Community
College participated as contest judges. The
drinking water samples were judged on
their clarity, bouquet, and taste.

TAUD will conduct the Best Tasting
Water in Tennessee Contest in each of
the Association’s 11 regions in upcoming

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