Bay County Water System

We are pleased to record that our drinking water meets all federal and state necessities. If you have got any questions on this record or concerning your water application, please touch Bobby Gibbs Water Division Superintendent at (850) 248-5010. We encourage our valued customers to be knowledgeable approximately their water software. If you need to study extra, please attend any of our regularly schedule Bay County Commission conferences. The meetings are scheduled for the primary and 0.33 Tuesday of every month. Public notices of the meetings are introduced frequently publicizing the date, time, and region. The Bay County Water Treatment Plant routinely video display units for contaminants in your ingesting water according to Federal and State legal guidelines, regulations, and policies. Except where indicated in any other case, this document is primarily based on the outcomes of our monitoring for the duration of January 1 to December 31, 2017. Data received before January 1, 2017, and presented in this record, are from the most recent checking out completed according to to the laws, regulations, and rules. The assets of drinking water (each faucet water and bottled water) include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As water travels over the floor of the land or through the ground, it dissolves certainly happening minerals and, in a few cases, radioactive material, and may pick out up substances because of the presence of animals or from human activity. Contaminants that can be found in supply water consist of (A) Microbial contaminants, such as viruses and bacteria, which may come from sewage treatment vegetation, septic structures, agricultural cattle operations, and wildlife. (B) Inorganic contaminants, including salts and metals, which may be clearly-going on or result from urban stormwater runoff, industrial or domestic wastewater discharges, oil and fuel production, mining, or farming. (C) Pesticides and herbicides, which may additionally come from a ramification of assets together with agriculture, urban stormwater runoff, and home uses. (D) Organic chemical contaminants, consisting of synthetic and volatile natural chemicals, which might be by way of-merchandise of commercial tactics and petroleum production, and also can come from gasoline stations, city stormwater runoff, and septic systems. (E) Radioactive contaminants, which may be certainly taking place or be the result of oil and fuel manufacturing and mining activities. To make sure that faucet water is safe to drink, the EPA prescribes rules, which restrict the number of positive contaminants in water furnished by public water systems. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules set up limits for contaminants in bottled water, which have to offer the identical protection for public health..

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