Green Bay unsure water timeline feasible A goal of service by 2008 may not be reachable By Ray Barrington News-Chronicle Members of the Green Bay Water Commission saw a timeline Monday that would have the Central Brown County Water Authority's member suburbs in compliance with radium standards by 2008, but they don't believe it. The timeline assumes the suburbs would test aquifer storage and recovery at the same time this year as Green Bay is making its second ASR test of a well. Commission members, however, don't expect the authority to do that. "I don't see them doing a pilot test before July 2004," said Green Bay Water Utility general manager Bill Nabek. That could stretch out the completion of full service to the suburbs to 2010. Green Bay's first test of ASR, which stores treated water in underground aquifers for later use, failed when the treated water was pumped out and showed traces of arsenic. Green Bay is ready to try again after lining the well. Green Bay's test will start next month and continue through the end of the year. If that doesn't work - with most of the wells showing similar geologic characteristics - it's possible ASR use is unlikely for any well. Authority members agreed it made little sense to take a suburban well, needed for daily supply, off line for testing until there was some confirmation ASR might work. Even if the CBCWA is ready to start filing the paperwork for tests, it still doesn't have water to test its wells. An interim service contract to sell Green Bay's treated Lake Michigan water to the suburbs is being negotiated, and a long-term deal would follow. An estimated 10 million gallons would be needed for testing a well. Green Bay is seeking an agreement with the suburbs by Sept. 1 so it can decide on the size of a new pipeline to Lake Michigan. Authority president Len Teresinski had hoped to have an interim agreement - supplying some water to help suburbs meet radium standards - by this week with a long-term agreement, either with or without ASR, by July.