SUMMERDALE, Ala. — The town of Summerdale continues in its effort to once again tap its own municipal water.

During Monday’s regular meeting, the Summerdale Town Council voted to go to bid on an air stripper for the well closed by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management in spring of 2012.

As previously reported, since the well’s closure, the town has purchased water from neighboring utilities. In addition, an alternate well had been drilled. However, it was not able to produce water at the needed rate of speed and was relegated to a fenced-in testing well.

ADEM has re-tested the town’s defunct well near Davis Street and found that it can be used with the addition of an air stripper. With Tuesday’s vote, the town will move forward with going to bid on the apparatus.

“ADEM tested the water and it’s already been declared pure,” Summerdale Mayor David Wilson said. “This air stripper will treat the water so it can be sold.”

The time-frame for the bid process is unclear. However, Wilson said that a special meeting would be called to select a bid “unless it’s close to a regular meeting.”