City of Frostburg

The Maryland Environmental Support (MES) operates and maintains the water treatment center for the City of Frostburg. The facility is usually rated to treat a few. 0 million gallons per day (MGD) and currently averages 1 ) 2 MGD. The Frostburg water treatment center receives raw drinking water from numerous resources. MES maintains twenty-nine springhouses with related collection and tranny equipment, and two deep wells inside the Pocono aquifer. The total amount of raw drinking water is pumped from your Piney Dam tank in Garrett Region. All raw drinking water sources are commingled in a one million gallon supply reservoir which usually feeds the water treatment center. The raw drinking water is treated utilizing a surface water treatment plant which includes four basic parts: coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, and filtration. These types of processes are created specifically to treat the water in Frostburg. The cured water is kept in two finished drinking water reservoirs. The last actions of treatment are the addition of Chlorine for disinfection, fluoride-based for dental safety and a corrosion inhibitor to help keep up with the distribution system. The Maryland Environmental Support provides personnel who also are properly qualified and licensed to work and maintain the water treatment center and related gear per all relevant regulations. The functional tasks include daily visits to the drinking water treatment facility, checking the service, performing daily procedure testing, performing daily, weekly, and month to month calibrations/maintenance, performing almost all outside grounds repair, and continuing on-going quality control and preventative maintenance applications. The Maryland Environmental Service procures almost all necessary supplies and materials outlined inside the operating budget for the efficient control of treatment, compiles and submits all reports needed by Local, Condition, and Federal Regulating Agencies and provides response 24 hours per day in case of emergencies including an equipment breakdown. The sources of water (both tap water and bottled water) consist of rivers, lakes, channels, ponds, reservoirs, suspension springs, and wells. Because the water travels within the surface of the property or through the floor, it dissolves naturally occurring minerals and, in some instances radioactive material, and may pick up substances caused by the presence of animals or perhaps from human activity. Water, including bottled water, might reasonably be expected to contain at a minimum of small amounts of a few compounds. The presence of these types of compounds does not always indicate that drinking water poses a wellness risk. More information regarding contaminants and probable health effects can be acquired by calling environmentally friendly Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Safe Drinking Water Act Servicenummer (1-800-426-4791) I and order to ensure that plain tap water is safe to drink, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY prescribes regulations which usually limit the number of particular compounds in drinking water provided by public drinking water systems. We deal with our water in accordance with EPA’s rules. Food and Drug Administration regulations set up limits for pollutants in bottled water which usually must provide equal protection for public well-being. Microbial Contaminants, including viruses and bacterias, may come from sewerage treatment plants, solid waste systems, agricultural animal operations, and animals. Pesticides and Herbicides, which might come from a variety of resources such as agriculture, city stormwater runoff, and residential uses. Inorganic Contaminants, such as debris and metals, which may be naturally-occurring or derive from urban stormwater runoff, industrial, or household wastewater discharges, gas and oil production, mining, or perhaps farming. Organic Chemical substance Contaminants, including artificial and volatile organic and natural chemicals, which are by-products of industrial processes and petroleum production, and may also come from gasoline stations, urban stormwater runoff, and septic devices. Radioactive Contaminants, which may be naturally-occurring or end up being the result of oil and gas creation and mining actions..

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