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Adair has won Wooden Bucket award 2 of 17 times

Detailed list of previous winners below
When Columbia Utilities Manager Jim Williams vowed Thursday night, September 13, 2007, in the hallowed halls of Lindsey Wilson College, to get work to win a second Wooden Bucket Award, it wasn't a hollow boast.

Adair County already has the best Wooden Bucket winning percentage, per population, of any locale in the Commonwealth.



Another Wooden Bucket Win would be the third time the award has come to Adair County, rightfully ranking the county's famously good-tasting water producers in the top ranks of superlatives the county has achieved among high school bands, artists, authors, barbecues, Walking horses, dairy cows, soccer, cycling, baseball, academic teams, basketball, softball, American chestnut trees, county fairs, long pumping oil wells, internet sites, famous coaches, beautiful scenery, and friendly people, an percentage of population who are publishers, printers, to name just a very few of Adair County's leadership positions.

Of the 17 (in 18 years) award winners, two are from this county, making Adair County the most frequent winner of the prestigious award, along with Hardin County.

Wooden Bucket Award Winners by Year:
  • 1990 - Wood Creek Water District (Rockcastle Co.)
  • 1991 - Adair County Water District
  • 1992 - No award (NRWA Conference)
  • 1993 - Hardin County Water District #2
  • 1994 - Mountain Water District (Pike Co.)
  • 1995 - Garrard County Water District
  • 1996 - McCreary County Water District
  • 1997 - Butler County Water System, Inc.
  • 1998 - West McCracken Water District
  • 1999 - Worthington (Greenup Co.)
  • 2000 - Carroll County Water District
  • 2001 - Hardin County Water District #2
  • 2002 Allen County Water District
  • 2003 Springfield Water & Sewer (Washington Co.)
  • 2004 East Daviess County Water Association
  • 2005 Grayson County Water District
  • 2006 Southeast Daviess County Water District
  • 2007 Columbia Utilities Commission
Hardin County Water District #2 has won the award twice, giving Hardin County, with five times the population of Adair County, two wins as well.

Thanks to Bobbie Shanahan, Kentucky Rural Water Association, Bowling Green, Kentucky, for the list above.


This story was posted on 2007-09-16 05:09:51
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