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Suffolk County Water Authority
PO Box 37
Oakdale NY 11769
(631) 563-0296

August 15, 2000
SCWA Annual Report Honored

The Suffolk County Water Authority's most recent annual report was among those that enabled its designer, Curran & Connors, Inc., to receive top honors at the 14th Annual International ARC Awards ceremony held late last month, Chairman Michael A. LoGrande announced today.

"Our report won a Silver Award for design excellence," LoGrande said. "Ever since the document was released in January, we have had many favorable comments, but now it has been officially designated as one of 44 award winners produced by our designer. As the firm with the largest number of winning reports in the annual competition, Curran & Connors also received the Platinum Achievement Award, the highest honor given at the event."

According to LoGrande, the Water Authority's 1999 Annual Report featured full color graphics, including a photo montage on the front cover, and many instances of creative design. "For instance, Curran & Connors superimposed the conclusion of my message, along with my signature, over a full page photograph of one of our chemists engaged in the important work we do each day at our state-of-the-art groundwater testing laboratory in order to make sure the drinking water we supply to more than a million people meets very stringent standards," he said. "They did a terrific job of supporting and emphasizing the information we wanted to present."

The Hauppauge-based firm is America's largest designer of annual reports and corporate literature, LoGrande noted, adding that Curran & Connors is currently working with managers and other Water Authority professionals on the annual report for the fiscal year from June 1, 1999, to May 31, 2000. "We are delighted have the opportunity to collaborate with them again and look forward to an equally fine result," LoGrande concluded.

The Suffolk County Water Authority is a public benefit corporation operating by virtue of the Public Authorities law of the State of New York. Serving about 80% of Suffolk's residents, it operates without taxing power on a non-profit basis.