City of Leesburg

Where Does My Water Come From? All of our Treatment Facilities, which consist of the City, East (Airport and Mall), Highland Lakes, Plantation, and Royal Highlands, take floor water from the Floridan Aquifer in the Ocklawaha Watershed. Chlorine gasoline is used at the East water gadget and Liquid Sodium Hypochlorite (NaOCL) is used on the City, Highland Lakes, Plantation, and Royal Highlands Treatment Facilities as disinfectants. These disinfectants are used as a precaution in opposition to any bacteria that may be present. We cautiously reveal the amount of disinfection used, including the lowest quantity important to protect the protection of our water without compromising taste. Our Water structures are serviced using eighteen (18) wells, ranging intensive from 250 toes to one thousand feet. We have garage potential within the shape of floor storage tanks and elevated towers to save five.975 million gallons of water. All systems blended serve a complete of 18,880-meter connections with an average day by day float of 7.641 million gallons. Our water hardness ranges between 7 & 8 grains, which is 125 to 143 mg of calcium carbonate in keeping with a liter of water. Source Water Assessment In 2016, the Department of Environmental safety completed a Source Water Assessment on our systems. These exams are performed to provide facts approximately any capacity sources of infection close to our wells. The assessment suggests tenability assets of contamination with a moderate susceptibility degree, one capability source of contamination with a high susceptibility degree, one capacity supply of contamination with a low susceptibility degree for the City system. A search of the records assets indicated capacity resources of infection for the Airport device, and two ability resources of contamination for the Mall machine. No potential resources of contamination were recognized for the Highland Lakes, Plantation, and Royal Highlands structures. The evaluation results are to be had at the FDEP Source Water Assessment and Protection Program Web web site at https://fldep.Dep.Nation.Fl.Us/swapp/ Substances That Could Be in Water The sources of drinking water (each tap water and bottled water) encompass rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As water travels over the surface of the land or through the floor, it dissolves taking place minerals and, in some instances, radioactive cloth, and might select up substances attributable to the presence of animals or from human activity. Contaminants that may be present in source water consist of: A. Microbial contaminants, inclusive of viruses and microorganism, which might also come from sewage treatment vegetation, septic structures, agricultural cattle operations, and the natural world. B. Inorganic contaminants, including salts and metals, which can be obviously-going on or result from city stormwater runoff, commercial or home wastewater discharges, oil and fuel production, mining, or farming. C. Pesticides and herbicides, which can also come from a ramification of assets which includes agriculture, urban typhoon water runoff, and home uses. D. Organic chemical contaminants, consisting of artificial and volatile natural chemical substances, which can be by-merchandise of industrial approaches and petroleum manufacturing, and can also, come from fuel stations, urban stormwater runoff, and septic systems. E. Radioactive contaminants, which may be happening or be the result of oil and gas manufacturing and mining sports. To ensure that faucet water is safe to drink, the EPA prescribes regulations, which limit the number of certain contaminants in water provided by public water structures. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations set up limits for contaminants in bottled water, which ought to provide the same protections for public fitness. Drinking water, which includes bottled water, may also moderately be expected to include at the least small amounts of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does now not always suggest that the water poses a fitness chance. More facts about contaminants and capacity fitness results may be received by using calling the Environmental Protection Agency’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791. Lead in Home Plumbing If present, accelerated degrees of lead can reason extreme fitness troubles, especially for pregnant women and younger kids. Lead in consuming water is in most cases from materials and components related to provider traces and domestic plumbing. We are answerable for supplying high quality drinking water however can't manipulate the sort of substances used in plumbing additives. When your water has been sitting for several hours, you could limit the potential for lead publicity by using flushing your tap for 30 seconds to 2 minutes earlier than using water for consuming or cooking. If you're concerned about lead on your water, you can desire to have your water tested. Information on lead in ingesting water, checking out methods, and steps you may take to reduce publicity is available from the Drinking Water Hotline, or at www.Epa.Gov/safewater/lead. Important Health Information Some people can be more liable to contaminants in ingesting water than the overall populace. Immune-compromised men and women including persons with most cancers undergoing chemotherapy, persons who have gone through organ transplants, human beings with HIV/AIDS or other immune system problems, some aged, and toddlers can be in particular at hazard from infections. These humans need to are searching for recommendations about ingesting water from their health care companies. EPA/CDC suggestions on appropriate means to lessen the chance of infection using Cryptosporidium and other microbiological contaminants are to be had from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline (800-426-4791)..

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