Butte-Silver Bow Water Department

We are pleased to provide you with this yr's Annual Drinking Water Quality Report. This record is designed to inform you about the satisfactory of the water and of the offerings we supply to you every day. Our consistent purpose is to offer you a safe and dependable delivery of consuming water. Through this file, we are hoping to help you understand the efforts we adopt to always enhance the water treatment procedures and to protect our precious water assets. The water sources serving Butte-Silver Bow are (1) The Big Hole River / South Fork Reservoir, (2) Moulton Reservoir, and (three) Basin Creek Reservoir System. These are all floor water sources that, in 2017, provided 12,324 homes and organizations with 2.Seventy eight billion gallons of potable water, with a top day of 14.01 million gallons. Water from each supply can be diverted and applied to any region in the community. An overall of 8,772 ft. Of water, mains were renewed in 2017 and renewal from 1992 through 2017 totals 446,414 toes. The Big Hole Water Treatment Plant (Conventional Filtration Treatment System) started operations in December of 1994 and has the functionality to treat 16 million gallons of water consistent with day. The plant is placed southwest of Butte. Water from this source commonly serves the south aspect of Butte and among Galena St. And Aluminum St. The Moulton Water Treatment Plant (Direct Filtration Treatment System) is placed north of Walkerville, and is a 2.Five million gallon per day water treatment facility. It commenced operating in March of 1995. Water from this supply more often than not serves the Walkerville community and the top northwest facet of Butte. The Basin Creek Water Treatment Plant (Ceramic Membrane Filtration System) is positioned south of Butte commenced operations in May of 2017 and can treat 7 million gallons of water an afternoon. Water from this supply primarily serves the south aspect of Butte. The water remedy vegetation is operated by way of a nicely trained and nation licensed personnel by all kingdom and federal government policies. If you've got any questions about this report or approximately your water application, please touch Jim Dennehy on the Big Hole Water Treatment Plant; cellphone (406) 723-9429. We need our valued customers to be informed about their water and their water application. If you wish to analyze more, please plan to wait for our scheduled informational assembly. This meeting can be held on July 10, 2018, at 10 AM, at 126 W. Granite Street, 1/3 floor conference room. The Butte-Silver Bow Water Utility Division automatically monitors for materials inside the drinking water. This monitoring is carried out by Federal and State law. The following table suggests the results of our tracking for the duration of January 1st to December thirty first, 2017. Some of the information in the tables is a couple of year antique, considering sure chemical contaminants are monitored less often than once a yr. Based upon quality analytical results of tracking in 2011, Butte-Silver Bow (BSB) Water Utility system has been issued a waiver for sure inorganic contaminants. The waiver covers the duration of 2011 – 2019. BSB Water Utility has additionally met their Asbestos waiver requirements through 12/31/19. Our sampling frequency complies with EPA and State drinking water policies. *Turbidity is a measure of the cloudy look of water due to the presence of suspended and colloidal count number. We monitor turbidity as it is a great indicator of water nice. High turbidity can avoid the effectiveness of disinfectants. Our designated turbidity restrict is 0.3 NTU for the Big Hole & Moulton Water Treatment Plants and zero.15 NTU for the Basin Creek Water Treatment Plant. Our NTU’s have been less than those limits 100% of the time. If present, expanded stages of lead can purpose serious fitness troubles, especially for pregnant ladies and younger kids. Lead in drinking water is mostly from substances and components related to service strains and domestic plumbing. Butte-Silver Bow Water Utility is chargeable for providing high pleasant ingesting water, but cannot manage the variety of materials used inside the plumbing components. When your water has been sitting for several hours, you may reduce the ability for lead exposure by flushing your faucet for 30 seconds to two minutes earlier than the use of water for consuming or cooking. If you're concerned approximately lead in your water, you may want to have your water tested. Information on lead in drinking water, checking out methods and steps you can take to limit exposure is available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline or at: http://www.Epa.Gov/safewater/lead A Source Water Delineation and Assessment Report for the Butte-Silver Bow Water Utility Division was prepared with the aid of a Water Quality Specialist with the Source Water Protection Program of the Montana Dept. Of Environmental Quality (DEQ). This document is supposed to satisfy the technical requirements for the final touch of the supply water delineation and evaluation file required with the aid of the Montana Source Water Protection Program (DEQ, 1999) and the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) Amendments of 1996. Susceptibility of the BSB Water Utility PWS’s supply water is decided via factors: The ability of a contaminant attaining the consumption and the ensuing health chance. Susceptibility is classified to be able to prioritize capability pollutant assets in the Spill Response Regions with the intention of manual management movements undertaken via BSB Water Utility & Silver Bow County. A copy of this document may be received at the Butte-Silver Bow Water Utility Div. Office, placed at 124 W. Granite St. Or is available to the public through the Internet at http://nris.Kingdom.Mt.Us/wis/swap/swaplist.Asp As you can see through the tables, our machine had no Maximum Contaminant Level violations at some point of this tracking period. We’re proud that your ingesting water meets or exceeds all Federal and State water first-class requirements. All resources of consuming water are a problem to capability contamination through constituents which might be certainly occurring or are guy made. Those ingredients can be microbes, organic or inorganic chemical substances, or radioactive materials. We have learned via our tracking and testing that some parts were detected, however, the EPA has decided that your water IS SAFE at those levels. All-consuming water, which includes bottled water, may additionally fairly be expected to contain as minimum small quantities of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does now not necessarily suggest that the water poses a health risk. More records approximately contaminants and potential health results may be acquired with the aid of calling the Environmental Protection Agency’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791. MCL’s are set at very low degrees. To higher understand the potential for fitness consequences for many regulated elements keep in mind the subsequent: A man or woman would need to devour two litres of water that contained a contaminant at the MCL degree normal for an existence time to have a one-in-a-million threat of having a selected 6 health impact. Some people can be more liable to contaminants in consuming water than the general population. Immuno-compromised people along with men and women with most cancers undergoing chemotherapy, men and women who've undergone organ transplants, human beings with HIV/AIDS or other immune device issues, some aged, and infants may be particularly at risk from infections. These human beings should are be searching for recommendations about ingesting water from their fitness care vendors. EPA/CDC suggestions on a suitable manner to lessen the chance of contamination through cryptosporidium and other microbiological contaminants are available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline (800-426-4791). Please call our workplace when you have questions. We on the Butte-Silver Bow Department of Public Works, Water Utility Division work around the clock to provide top best water to all customers. We ask that each one of our clients assist us to defend our water assets, which might be the heart of our community, our manner of lifestyles and our youngsters' destiny. The full version of the 2018 Consumer Confidence Report with an entire listing of the contaminants, for which exams were performed, can be determined on Butte-Silver Bow’s internet site at www.Bsb.Mt.Gov.

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