{"id":266989,"date":"2026-05-11T19:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266989\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T19:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:09:07","slug":"apga-recognizes-lake-apopka-natural-gas-district-for-operational-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266989\/","title":{"rendered":"APGA recognizes Lake Apopka Natural Gas District for operational excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h946336-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">The American Public Gas Association presented the Lake Apopka Natural Gas District with the APGA System Operational Achievement Recognition for excellence in operating its natural gas utility.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h946336-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">The APGA Operations and Safety Committee selected Lake Apopka Natural Gas District for SOAR level Gold out of approximately 750 APGA members.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h946336-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">The selection was based on demonstrated excellence in system integrity, system improvement, employee safety and workforce development.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h946336-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">APGA President and CEO Dave Schryver said the district was highly rated in all four areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h946336-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">&#8220;Lake Apopka Natural Gas District consistently demonstrates a commitment to providing natural gas safely and efficiently to all those in their community and as such, serves as a model for all other natural gas utilities in the country,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h946336-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">The district was one of 21 SOAR recipients in 2026 and will be recognized at the APGA annual conference in July in Providence, Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The American Public Gas Association presented the Lake Apopka Natural Gas District with the APGA System Operational Achievement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-266989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}