The 1990s

Here are highlights of some of the issues and projects undertaken by the Conway Corporation from 1990 – 1999.

1990

JULY: Customer service area established in Prairie Street location

1991

Conway Corporation Service Center was completed. All electric, water, wastewater and electronic operations were moved to the new South Harkrider location in late 1991.

1992

$13 million wastewater treatment expansion project was begun, including a new multi-cell partial mix aerated lagoon at Tucker Creek

MAY: Headend equipment moved to general office site using space vacated when Service Center move completed

1993

Refinanced $5.9 million in water revenue bonds and $27.1 million in electric revenue bonds at a savings of $1.889 million and $8 million respectively over the life of the issue.

1994

May: Prairie Street office remodeled.

1995

MAY: Local ad insertion begins

NOVEMBER: Construction on citywide cable conversion to a fiber-coax hybrid began. Project cost was estimated at $5.6 million

NOVEMBER: Project began to increase city’s water storage capacity, including construction of 8 million gallon tank near the Gleason Water Treatment Plant

1996

FEBRUARY: Cable system fiber-coax rebuild completed

1997

Three substations were purchased from Entergy at a cost of $5.955 million including bond costs.

APRIL: Work complete on cable modem accessed Internet services to be offered over the city’s new broadband cable system. New power agreement reached with Entergy, expected to save some $12.4 million in power costs by end of year 2000.

APRIL: Conway Corporation became the third in the country and fifth in the world to offer high speed, broadband cable Internet service.

1998

MAY: GIS Program Implemented

JULY: Internet bandwidth expansion

DECEMBER: Odectic cameras installed at major intersections – video controlled traffic monitoring