City of Baker Water System

We're pleased to provide to you this 12 months' Annual Water Quality Report. This document is designed to tell you approximately the fine water and services we deliver to you each day. Our constant intention is to provide you with a secure and reliable supply of consuming water. We want you to understand the efforts we make to usually enhance the water remedy technique and defend our water assets. We are committed to making sure the fine of your water. Our water assets are floor water from 2 wells. The wells draw from the Floridan Aquifer. Because of the fantastic nice of our water, the best remedy required is chlorine for disinfection functions. In 2017 the Florida Department of Environmental Protection completed a Source Water Assessment on our gadget. The evaluation becomes performed to provide data about any capability resources of infection in the place of our wells. There is one potential source(s) of contamination identified for this system with a low susceptibility level. The evaluation effects are to be had at the FDEP Source Water Assessment and Protection Program (SWAPP) internet site at https://fldep.Dep.State.Fl.Us/swapp/ or they may be obtained from Baker Water System. If you have any questions on this record or regarding your water utility, please contact Wanda Patterson at 850-537-5121. We encourage our valued clients to be knowledgeable about their water software. If you want to study greater, please attend any of our regularly scheduled meetings. They are held on the three rd Monday night in every month. Baker Water System mechanically video display units for contaminants to your drinking water according to Federal and State legal guidelines, guidelines, and rules. Except in which indicated in any other case, this record is based on the outcomes of our monitoring from January 1 to December 31, 2017. Data received before January 1, 2017, and supplied on this file is from the maximum current trying out carried out according to to the laws, policies, and rules.If present, improved degrees of lead can cause severe health troubles, especially for pregnant girls and younger youngsters. Lead in ingesting water is on the whole from materials and components associated with provider lines and home plumbing. Baker Water System is responsible for imparting high great drinking water, however, can't manage the form of materials used in plumbing components. When your water has been sitting for several hours, you may reduce the capacity for lead publicity through flushing your faucet for 30 seconds to 2 mins earlier than using water for ingesting or cooking. If you're involved about lead on your water, you may want to have your water examined. Information on lead in ingesting water, trying out strategies, and steps you can take to limit exposure is available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline or at http://www.Epa.Gov/safewater/lead. The assets of consuming water (both faucet water and bottled water) consist of rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As water travels over the floor of the land or through the floor, it dissolves going on minerals and, in some instances, radioactive fabric, and might select up materials as a consequence of the presence of animals or from human pastime. To make certain that faucet water is secure to drink, the EPA prescribes rules, which restrict the number of certain contaminants in water provided by way of public water structures. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules set up limits for contaminants in bottled water, which ought to provide the same safety for public fitness. Drinking water, together with bottled water, may additionally fairly be expected to comprise as minimum small quantities of a few contaminants. The presence of contaminants does no longer always indicate that the water poses a fitness chance. More records about contaminants and capacity health results can be received by using calling the Environmental Protection Agency’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791. In our persevering efforts to hold safe and reliable water delivery, it can be vital to make upgrades to your water machine. The charges of these improvements may be reflected within the rate structure. Rate modifications may be essential as a way to deal with these upgrades. This 12 months we will be adjusting the fee by way of $.25 in line with month on the base price. Your base rate, that is 0 to 3000 gallons, might be $15.25. All usage over 3000 gallons can be billed at the usual rate of $3.50 according to a thousand gallons. We do not understand any foremost tasks these 12 months which would affect your water delivery, however, we can't realize whilst there can be a trouble that can cause your water to be out temporarily. Please understand that we're operating to preserve great water supply to each customer.

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