LINDALE — A nonprofit providing drinking water has received a grant to use mapping technology to improve distribution.

Lindale Rural Water Supply received the $10,000 check Tuesday from the Sabine River Authority of Texas, a conservation district that preserves and distributes the river’s waters.

The nonprofit serves 1,500 people and has an annual budget of about $2 million, according to Jamie Davin, the organization’s assistant general manager. The customers are inside Lindale city limits and in unincorporated parts of Smith County.

The money comes through the district’s community assistance grant, an economic development program that seeks to promote the improvement of quality of services, Sabine River Authority General Manager David Montagne wrote in a letter awarding the grant.

“(Lindale Water Supply’s) project to procure and implement a GIS mapping solution for the management of (Lindale Water Supply) facilities is an initiative that (Sabine River authority) supports in its efforts to improve water and wastewater systems throughout the basin,” Montagne wrote.

Terry Wilson, from the Sabine River Authority, said the district gives out these awards regularly, and has given out eight similar grants in the Sabine River basin this quarter.

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