City of Millbrae

Water quality is very important because we cannot survive with no clean and reliable supply of it. The City of Millbrae; the water supplier, the Bay area Public UOliOes Fee (SFPUC); the Ca Department of Open public Health (CDPH); & America Environmental ProtecOon Agency (USEPA) are working simultaneously to ensure we provide the greatest quality water and also to educate water customers and encourage their involvement inappropriate decisions. Consumers who familiarize themselves using the basic drinking water informaOon found in this report can parOcipate more effecOvely within these decision producing process. Together, we could be a great force to advertise programs to help us in conOnuing to provide water that meets peak standards. The Millbrae Water Division conducts an extensive water quality guarantee program. We collect as well as a report over forty samples per month throughout our program to regularly keep track of water quality. We send samples to some state cerOfied lab for tesOng and therefore are pleased to report that samples have examined negaOve for coliforms which the City experienced zero violaOons associated with any maximum toxin level (MCL) within the calendar year 2016. Other water examples are collected periodically to check on for levels associated with lead and copper mineral, disinfecOon by-products trihalomethanes as well as haloaceOc acids (THMs as well as HAAs) and common physical components because required by condition and federal regulaOons. The actual City of Millbrae received the waiver for the asbestos sample. The City of Millbrae conOnually screens all five primary entry points to the distribuOon system and various key points within the distribuOon system, for example, our tank websites and pump staOons. These sites tend to be monitored by the computerized SCADA (Supervisory Manage and Data AcquisiOon) system providing you with our Water Department managers with conOnuous automatic water quality informaOon. Within addiOon, the Millbrae water department, along with the actual San Mateo Region Environmental Health Dept. administers and handles across-connecOon prevenOon program to get rid of possible contaminaOon to the drinking water via backflow prevenOon products. The program consists of yearly tesOng of city-owned backflow products and monitoring associated with compliance on for yourself owned backflow devices*. *A note to residents and business people who have backflow prevenOon products: State regulaOons require that backflow prevenOon products be tested annually with a cerOfied inspector. Given by the San Francisco Local Water System (SFRWS), which is owned and operated through the San Francisco Open public UOliOes Commission (SFPUC), our major water source arises from spring snowmelt moving down the Tuolumne Water to storage within Hetch Hetchy Tank. The well guarded Sierra water supply is exempt through filtraOon requirements by America Environmental ProtecOon Company (USEPA) and Condition Water Resources Manage Board's Division associated with Drinking Water (SWRCB-DDW). Water in the Hetch Hetchy reservoir receives the next treatments to fulfill appropriate drinking water requirements: disinfecOon by ultraviolet gentle and chlorine, corrosion control by adjustment from the water pH worth, fluoridaOon for oral health protecOon, and chloraminaOon about maintaining disinfectant recurring and minimizing disinfecOon byproduct formaOon. Hetch Hetchy water is supplemented with area water from 2 local watersheds. Rainfall and runoff in the 35, 000-acre Alameda Watershed within Alameda and Father Christmas Clara counOes are collected within the Calaveras and San Antonio reservoirs and sent to the Sunol Area Water Treatment Grow (SVWTP). Rainfall and runoff in the 23, 000-acre Peninsula Watershed within San Mateo Region are stored within the Crystal Springs, San Andreas as well as Pilarcitos reservoirs, and therefore are delivered to the actual Harry Tracy Water Remedy Plant. In addiOon in order to these local resources, the SWRCB-DDW authorized the SFPUC to make use of the surface water within Lake Eleanor, Lake Cherry and also the associated creeks just about all conveyed via the low Cherry Aqueduct, Early Intake Tank and Tuolumne River (collecOvely referred to as Upcountry Non-Hetch Hetchy Resources or UNHHS) because addiOonal drinking water sources towards the SFRWS. The UNHHS water, if used, will be treated in the SVWTP before service to clients. In 2016, the SFRWS didn't use UNHHS. Water in the two local remedy plants is susceptible to filtraOon, disinfecOon, fluoridaOon, as well as pH adjustment concerning corrosion control opOmi- zaOon. The SFPUC’s Water High-quality Division (WQD) frequently collects and assessments water samples through reservoirs and specified sampling points through the system to guarantee the water delivered for you meets or surpasses federal and condition drinking water requirements. In 2016, WQD staff conducted a lot more than 50, 200 drinking water tests within the transmission and distribuOon techniques. This is in addiOon towards the extensive treatment procedure control monitoring performed through the SFPUC’s cerOfied providers and online devices. Drinking water, such as.

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