Ada

We are thrilled to provide you with this year's Annual Water Quality Report. This document is designed to inform you about the excellent water and services we deliver to you each day. Our regular aim is to provide you with safe and reliable delivery of drinking water. Our water supply is groundwater from Byrd’s Mill Spring. The spring components floor water to a nine million gallon in keeping with day remedy facility. The City of Ada Water Treatment Plant components potable water to seven water structures besides the city. If you have got any questions about this document or regarding your water utility, please contact Marty York, Utility Plants Superintendent at (580) 436-8100. The City’s address is 231 South Townsend, Ada, OK 74820. We need our valued customers to be knowledgeable about their water utility. You are welcome to attend any of our often scheduled City Council conferences. They are held the first and 0.33 Mondays of every month starting at 5:forty five p.M. At City Hall. We automatically monitor for elements in your ingesting water consistent with federal and state legal guidelines. The following table suggests the outcomes of our tracking from January 1 to December 31, 2017. (Some of our information maybe a couple of year vintage because the state lets in us to display for some contaminants much less regularly than as soon as consistent with yr.) Definitions ? Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) -- The highest degree of a contaminant is allowed in drinking water. MCLs are set as near the MCLGs as possible the usage of the great to be had remedy technology. ? Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) – The level of a contaminant in ingesting water under which there's no acknowledged or anticipated threat to health. MCLGs permit for a margin of protection. ? Treatment Technique (TT) – A remedy technique is a required process meant to reduce the extent of a contaminant in consuming water. ? Action Level (AL) – The concentration of a contaminant, which, if exceeded, triggers treatment or other necessities that a water machine needs to comply with. ? Parts in keeping with million (ppm) or Milligrams per liter (mg/l) – one part of a contaminant in keeping with million components of water. ? Parts according to billion (ppb) or Micrograms in line with a liter (ug/l) – one a part of a contaminant in keeping with billion parts of water. ? Nephelometric Turbidity Unit (NTU) – nephelometric turbidity unit is a degree of the readability of water. Turbidity is an extra of 5 NTU is simply sizeable to the average individual. ? Picocuries in keeping with a liter (pCi/L) – Picocuries in step with liter is a measure of the radioactivity in water. ? Non-Detects (ND) – Laboratory analysis indicates that the constituent isn't always present. All resources of consuming water are difficulty to potential contamination by way of elements which are naturally going on or are man-made. Those components can be microbes, natural or inorganic chemical compounds, or radioactive materials. All ingesting water, together with bottled water, may also moderately be predicted to incorporate at the least small quantities of a few contaminants. The presence of contaminants does no longer always suggest that the water poses a health risk. More records about contaminants and ability health consequences may be received via calling the Environmental Protection Agency’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791..

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