21/07/09 - Two new directors at Dee Valley Water

Dee Valley Water has appointed two new directors; Norman Holladay as Regulation Director and Keith Williams as Operations Director.

Both have been promoted from within the company after accumulating over 50 years’ service between them with the Chester and North East Wales water supplier.

Keith Williams was born and educated in Wrexham before joining the company (then named Wrexham Water) in 1974 as an apprentice plumber. He has worked in the majority of the water supplier’s divisions over his three decades of service and even gained his MBA whilst General Manager of the company. His new role will see him directing the strategic operations of Dee Valley Water from water treatment to human resources.

Williams said of his new role: “I am excited by the challenge this new opportunity offers. Over the years I’ve seen many changes both in the company and its operating environment but one thing that remains a constant are the friendly and dedicated people I work with."

Norman Holladay, the company’s new Regulation Director lives in Chester and is a professionally qualified civil engineer with extensive experience of the water industry. He has worked for Dee Valley Water for 16 years as Planning and Regulation Manager and before that spent 19 years with a firm of international consulting engineers working on water engineering projects in the UK and abroad. His new role will involve developing and implementing strategies to ensure the company meets all the industry regulators’ stringent information and performance requirements, as well as the management of the water supplier’s assets and capital investment programmes.

Holladay said of his new appointment: “I am delighted to take on the responsibility of this new role. Dee Valley Water is a respected company with a long tradition of providing a continuous and high quality supply of water to the local community. I look forward to continuing this tradition and tackling the various challenges facing the water industry now and in the future,”

Dee Valley Water operates and regularly invests in the running of its eight impounding reservoirs, two river abstractions and two groundwater sources, which supply approximately 62 million litres per day to over 258,000 customers.

The region’s water is also treated at the company’s six treatment works and the water is supplied through a network of nearly 2,000km of water mains, 25 pumping stations and 37 clean water storage reservoirs.