Water works suppliers with operations in Harrison to merge

Two water works supply companies with operations in Harrison are joining up.

National Road Utility Supply Inc., a water works distributor with operations on Alter Road as well as in Tridelphia, W.Va., and Morgantown, W.Va., is being acquired by CITCO Water.

Financial terms were not disclosed.

“The teaming up of NRUS and CITCO Water is the perfect union of two companies with excellent reputations, products and services to help all customers solve their daily problems,” the companies said in a statement.

CITCO Water is a family-owned company that was founded in 1958.

It has more than 100 employees and seven branches serving West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio. It also has a location in Harrison.

“By joining CITCO Water, not only are we able to enhance our end-to-end solutions for our contractor customer-base that we’ve built over the last 40 years, but are also able to offer all the solutions our municipal customers need ‘to take water from the source, to the consumer, and return it to the source,’ ” National Road Utility said.

CITCO said the deal will allow it to expand its reach in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

The company was founded in 1985 in West Virginia. It serves contractor and municipal customers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Ohio.