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My name is Stacy Payne . I work for the

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Walla Walla District out of the

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Northwest Division , and I'm here at

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Burnett Reservoir trying to provide

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clean water to this the residents of

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Asheville and to Buncombe County . So

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I'm a safety specialist , um , up here

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supporting the team . Um , I'm just

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ensuring that everything goes smooth .

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Our people are our number one priority

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and we just wanna make sure everybody

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goes home safely every night , and we

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need our our folks to do important jobs .

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Like this and we wanna make sure that

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we we keep everybody safe . The

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contractors that we have out here have

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been phenomenal to work with um they're

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the prime contractor's been amazing .

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The subcontractors have been great , um ,

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they're working around the clock and we

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we really haven't had any big issues .

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It's huge to me , um , just being out

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here and try and helping all of the

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people that are surrounding the area .

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Um , it's , it's just heartfelt to know

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that we're making a difference and that

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we're providing them potable water

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again . They've been without water for

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so long and to provide that service to

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them just really speaks to my heart .