Bardstown Municipal Water Department

The Bardstown Municipal Water Division is pleased to present this annual drinking water quality report. This kind of report is designed to let you know about the quality of drinking water and services all of us deliver to you each day. We strive to offer our customers having a safe and reliable supply of drinking water. We wish you to be aware of the continual efforts designed to improve our drinking water system and to safeguard our water assets. Thank you for your support. SOME WAYS ALL OF US IMPROVED OUR SOLUTIONS IN 2017: • Completed upsizing of backwash supply range at Water Treatment Plant • Added chlorine disinfection to top of filter systems at Water Treatment Plant • Checked out and cleaned the Hurstland Water Container • Participated in workshops with the Kentucky Division of Water • Repair work from the underdrain and piece of art of Filter Device #2 at the Drinking water Treatment Plant started with work overall in the Spring of 2018 • Changed aging water lines on Flaget St, N. Fourth St, Sylvan Dr ., and Hurstland Dr . • Completed design programs for Water Treatment Plant conversion coming from chlorine to chloramine disinfection; Construction Bet went out in Dec. Project awarded to Judy Construction with work beginning in Springtime of 2018. Building expected to be designed in Fall 2018 SAFEGUARDING OUR WATER We can say that water is the most essential product in every house. We ask everybody to be conservative that help us protect the water source and water system. Make sure you report any dubious activity that you may observe around water storage space tanks, fire hydrants, pump stations, or perhaps Sympson Lake to law enforcement agencies or perhaps City Hall workers. Informed consumers are the best allies to maintain safe drinking water. We motivate public interest and participation in our community’s decisions affecting water. Regular City Authorities meetings occur around the second and last Tuesdays, at the Town Annex Building, 116 North Fifth Road at 7: 00 P. M. Employees at the Bardstown Drinking water Treatment Plant function around the clock to provide top-quality water to every faucet. If you want further information or perhaps want to discuss issues included in this report, make sure you contact Jessica Filiatreau at (502) 348-5947or Don Wilson in (502) 348-3064. SAFETY OF DRINKING WATER IS USUALLY EVERYONE’S RESPONSIBILITY You are able to help protect the water supply by • Eliminating excess utilization of lawn and garden fertilizers and pesticides • Obtaining after your domestic pets • Disposing of chemical substances and used automotive products properly (AutoZone™ and Oil Express™ found in Bardstown both acknowledge small amounts of automotive products. ) • Getting rid of used medicine correctly • Volunteering found in watershed groups within our area • Keeping in mind that storm drains eliminate directly into local creeks and rivers • Keeping livestock away of streams and creeks Good News: Business lead levels in Bardstown’s water system continues to be so consistently beneath action levels the DOW placed Bardstown on reduced monitoring in previous years. Due to the discontinuing of phosphate feed as well as the conversion from chlorine to chloramine disinfection, we will be returning to regular testing frequency found in 2018. The sample is required as a regular procedure for the Label of Water. Levels are required to stay well under the action level because Bardstown is lucky to not have business lead pipes in its general public distribution system. If present, elevated amounts of lead can cause severe health problems, especially for women that are pregnant and young children. Many people may be more vulnerable to contaminants in water than the general populace. Immuno-compromised people, including people with cancer who also are undergoing radiation treatment, people who have undergone body organ transplants, people with HIV/AIDS or other defense mechanisms disorders, some seniors, and infants could be particularly at risk coming from infections. These people ought to seek advice regarding drinking water from their physicians. EPA/CDC guidelines about appropriate means to reduce the risk of infection simply by Cryptosporidium and other microbes contaminants are available from your Safe Drinking Water Hotline: (800) 426-4791. Construction was your theme for the Bardstown Water Division in 2017. The Division of Water (DOW) Stage 2 Disinfection By-products (DBPs) conformity regulations is traveling many of our water improvement projects both in the water treatment grow and our circulation system. Segments of aging water plumbing were replaced in the downtown area to improve water top quality and flow to customers. TSI Building installed a new 24” diameter backwash pipe from the 1-million gallon Clearwell to Filtration system #3 and #4 at the water grow. This larger collection allows for the models to be adequately washed, thus reducing DBP formation at the grow. A chlorine disinfection line was set up in the filter models as well, just over the very best of the media, to be able to optimize treatment and additionally reduce DBP development. The $1. two million dollar project was first completed in October of 2017. We continuing our trial research of granular triggered carbon (GAC) while the primary media with the four filter models. When the GAC filtration system was in service, all of us saw improvement in water quality. During 2017, construction actions interfered with our capability to have the GAC filtering unit consistently operating. Therefore, the Label of Water has awarded us additional time to complete the study. We are happy to say found in 2017, we fulfilled all DOW regulating requirements including all those for DBPs. Nevertheless, we’ve determined one of the most cost-effective ways to enhance and sustain drinking water quality is transforming to chloramines. This is most critical for those clients at the farthest gets to of our service region, as well as our low-cost customers in Bloomfield, New Haven, North Nelson County, Hardin County, Larue Region, and Washington Region. Kenvirons, a Kentucky-based engineering company designed the $1, 129, 000 chloramine conversion project that bid January sixteen, 2018. Judy Building is performing the task that kicked away in April. Monitoring equipment is being positioned throughout the distribution program to ensure any that regulatory requirements will be being met and to help make it treatment adjustments because needed. The to chloramine will result from the fall of 2018. Medical research and regulating changes are leading Bardstown Municipal Drinking water Department to change the water treatment procedure, ensuring the water all of us deliver to your faucet is of the highest quality. Towards the end of 2018, we will begin using monochloramine as a final part of our disinfection procedure. With this modify, our customers should receive drinking water that exceeds stringent standards arranged by the EPA and could improve taste and odor. Monochloramine continues to be successfully used by drinking water utilities for over nine decades. Cities within Kentucky that are using monochloramine to treat drinking water consist of Louisville, Elizabethtown, Radcliff, and Versailles. The bigger cities of Based in Dallas, San Francisco, Miami, Denver colorado, Philadelphia, and many others also have made this switch. Bardstown currently uses free of charge chlorine as its main disinfectant. Although chlorine is the most powerful medical disinfectant available, it is also one of the most reactive, causing it can residual to dissolve as water techniques through the distribution program. The addition of ammonia to the post disinfection procedure will create monochloramine, which can be more stable, offering more consistent drinking water quality for all clients near and far. SAFETY MEASURES FOR SOME CUSTOMERS Monochloramine is safe and helpful at levels commonly used to treat water. However, there are several special circumstances exactly where monochloramine must be eliminated: water used for renal dialysis, and drinking water used when keeping aquatic pets want to fish and some amphibians. monochloramine AND DIALYSIS Monochloramine is dangerous when it directly gets into the bloodstream. It ought to be removed from the water before using it for renal dialysis. If you are a dialysis patient or have queries, call your physician or maybe the dialysis center closest to you. FRESH AND SALTWATER PETS Monochloramine is harmful to seafood, amphibians, and other marine life. To protect Koi fish, lobster, prawn, frogs, turtles, snail, clams and live coral and other marine pets, use a treatment product that gets rid of monochloramin.

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