PIERRE – The South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) announced that the Sanborn Central School District public water system and the system’s operation specialists have been awarded a Drinking Water Certificate of Achievement Award.
“We cannot live without water; it is just that simple,” said DENR Secretary Steve Pirner. “With these awards, DENR salutes the best-of-the-best drinking water systems and operation specialists who deliver water every day to their customers. The Sanborn Central School District has successfully met all of the requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act all year long.”
The system’s operation specialist is Mark VanOverschelde.
To qualify for the Drinking Water Certificate of Achievement Award, public water systems and their system operations specialists had to meet all of the following requirements for 2015:
•    compliance monitoring and reporting,
•    drinking water standards, and
•    certification requirements.