On April 28, 1975, the Provincial Board passed Resolution No. 86 negotiating the transfer of all MWSS facilities to the Provincial Government and eventually to the LUWD. This resolution took effect with the signing of a turnover agreement of the water system to LUWD on April 30, 1975. Resolution No. 353 was officially filed with LWUA on February 13, 1975. On April 28, 1975, LWUA awarded the Condit
ional Certificate of Conformance (CCC)to the LUWD in recognition of its efforts and commitment to improve the public water service. The CCC entitled the LUWD to all rights and privileges authorized under Presidential Decree No. 198. In 1990, the Board of Directors of the District passed Board Resolution No. 058-90 dated November 27, 1990 to include the word "Metro" in the name of the district making it Metro La Union Water District (MLUWD) purposely to signify its coverage area which was composed of the towns/municipalities located within the central area of La Union. At present, the MSFWD coverage area is composed of four (4) towns/municipalities and one (1) city located within the central area of La Union namely, the municipalities/towns of San Gabriel, Bacnotan, San Juan and Bauang and the City of San Fernando. The MSFWD is serving 8,400 active connections and aiming to increase its customers in the years to come. MSFWD is currently sourcing its water from one (1) spring and nine (9) operating and standby Deep Wells and eight (8) operating and standby Shallow Wells, with four (4) on-going constructions to supply the present service demand requirement of 8,400 service connections in the area. The spring source is the Lon-Oy Spring located in Brgy. Lon-Oy, San Gabriel, while the Deep and Shallow Wells are scattered throughout the service area
