Sanders will soon be getting cleaner and safer water
WINDOW ROCK
Sanders Park Estates will soon be getting cleaner and safer water after the Arizona Corporation Commission approved the transfer of water service from Arizona Windsong Water Company to Navajo Tribal Utility Authority during an April 12 meeting in Phoenix.
For months, Nahata Dzil community members have been going without running water after tests on 144 well sites found eight of those wells had concentration of uranium.
Since those tests, residents had to find alternative ways to get water for everyday living. That’s expected to end in a few weeks, as NTUA will soon be completely hooked up to give the community better quality water for a cheaper price, NTUA officials said.
“We are going to go through the process of signing them all up with their new accounts and starting the process of making them our customers,” said NTUA Deputy Manager Rex Kontz in a phone interview, “as soon as the water starts flowing and starts going through their meter. Probably by the middle of next week, they will have accounts.”
In order to speed up the process to give the residents of Park Estates better quality water, Kontz said they had to negotiate with Windsong owner Lillie Paulsell and purchase Windsong’s water pipes. NTUA plans to eventually replace the entire water system, including the pipes.
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