Mike Barsotti from The Champlain Water District is our guest speaker today.
Susan called the meeting to order at 7:30.
Susan welcomed Mike Barsotti as our guest speaker today.
Susan welcomed back Linda Gilbert who travelled to Honduras for Hands To Honduras.
The Spin A Thon poster was revealed for the April 9 event at the Shelburne Athletic Club. The QR code just needs to be scanned to donate and or participate in this event. The money raised will provide the opportunity to purchase AED’s for a public installation in each of the club’s three towns.
A race-walking clinic will be hosted by CSH Rotary and Shelburne Athletic Club on April 30th- May1st.
Polio conference tonight sponsored by Rotary International. Please plan to join us for a special zoom presentation by Paul Brochu, our Rotary area's PolioPlus expert. He will be speaking on the current status of Rotary's global polio eradication campaign and presenting his thoughts on how we can be part of the solution to this problem. The meeting will be held this Wednesday, March 16, at 5:00 PM.
This year the CSH Rotary club will celebrate fifty years. A celebration will be planned and part of the Changing of the Guard Ceremony in June. A plan is underway to contact past presidents to attend this event. Other plans are being made for the celebration.
Dave Micklas is working on a list of non-profits that might be interested in “renting” the club’s tent, aka “Community Corner,” at The Farmers Market this summer. The Shelburne Food Shelf and SCHIPS were mentioned. Please email Dave or Susan with our ideas.
Linda Gilbert briefed the club about her recent trip to Honduras. Every one there was wearing a mask and she felt very safe. Linda shared a brief presentation on the birthing table that was purchased for the maternity ward there. The bed was there when she arrived so the presentation of the pink hydraulic birthing bed and the first birth happened while she was there!
Denis collected the happy fines.
Denis introduced Mike Barsotti from The Champlain Water District. Mike does operational planning and production oversight for the CWD. He will talk about how CWD brings water to their customers.
Mike shared a video presentation about the CWD, which has been on line since 1973. CWD has thirty-four employees who are responsible for pumping anywhere from 9.7 million gallons per day up to 14.5 million (MGD). The service area is seventy square miles with 83,000 customers and six hundred miles of water system infrastructure. There are nineteen storage tanks and six booster pump stations.
The water comes from deep water areas in Shelburne Bay, which contains 33 billion gallons of water.
There is long list of actions CWD conducts daily to prepare the water for drinking. This includes adding fluoride and pH adjustment. Water use has been constant over the past thirty years in this district.
Dan presented the book “Our Basin of Relations: The Art & Science of Living With Water” by Trevien Stanger and M.E. Sipe. The book will be donated in Mike’s name to the Shelburne Pierson Library.
Susan adjourned the meeting at 8:30.