City of Mount Pleasant

We are very pleased to provide our Annual Water Quality Report for the Mt. Pleasant water delivery device. Every 12 months a comparable document is prepared for all City water clients to offer water satisfactory data. We need to hold all of our clients informed approximately the super water and services we have added over the last year. We aim to provide a secure and reliable supply of drinking water. If you have got any questions about this record or regarding your water application, please touch Jamie Hockemeyer Water Superintendent at (989) 779-5427. We need our valued customers to be knowledgeable approximately their water application. If you want to examine more about the operation of your City government, please attend any of our regularly scheduled City Commission meetings. They are held in the evenings on the second and fourth Mondays of each month at City Hall. WE ARE PLEASED TO REPORT THAT OUR DRINKING WATER MEETS ALL FEDERAL AND STATE REQUIREMENTS. For the ones people with unique health problems and issues, the subsequent paragraph carries EPA water use suggestions that can apply to you. Some humans may be more at risk of contaminants in consuming water than the general population. Immuno-compromised people inclusive of folks with most cancers undergoing chemotherapy, folks who've undergone organ transplants, people with HIV/AIDS or different immune gadget disorders, a few aged, and toddlers may be particularly at danger from infections. These human beings need to searching for advice approximately consuming water from their fitness care vendors. EPA/CDC recommendations on the suitable manner to lessen the chance of infection via Cryptosporidium and different microbial contaminants are available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1- 800-426-4791. Our source water is groundwater beneath direct affect on of floor water, drawn from six (6) groundwater wells and a Ranney™ horizontal collector properly. The groundwater wells are positioned south and southwest of Mt. Pleasant and variety from 120’ to 465’ deep. The Ranney™ Collector is positioned southwest of Mt. Pleasant adjacent to the Chippewa River. Water from the wells and the collector is pumped to the Water Treatment Plant where it's miles softened, filtered, disinfected and sent to the distribution device for use by our clients. The State executed an evaluation of our source water in 2003 to decide the susceptibility or the relative ability of infection. The susceptibility rating is on a six-tier scale from “very-low” to “very high” based basically on geologic sensitivity, water chemistry, and infection assets. The susceptibility of our groundwater wells degrees from very low to mild. The susceptibility of the Ranney™ Collector to capacity contamination is excessive. While there are no identifiable assets of infection gift, we've made an effort to guard our resources by way of imposing a wellhead protection application. If you would love to realize extra approximately the report please touch the Water Department. The City of Mt. Pleasant Water Department mechanically video display units for contaminants for your ingesting water according to Federal and State legal guidelines and sampling directives. The Test Results Table on the subsequent pages suggests the results of our monitoring from January 1st to December thirty first, 2017. Drinking water, which includes bottled water, maybe fairly predicted to include at the least small amounts of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does now not always suggest that water poses a fitness danger. More statistics about contaminants and potential fitness outcomes can be acquired through calling the EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791. The resources of drinking water (both faucet and bottled water) consist of rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As water travels over the surface of the land or through the ground, it dissolves certainly-going on minerals and, in some cases, radioactive material, and may pick up materials on account of the presence of animals or from human interest. Contaminants that can be found in supply water: Microbial contaminants, inclusive of viruses, protozoa, and the micro organisms may additionally come from sewage treatment plants, septic structures, agricultural cattle operations, and wildlife. Inorganic contaminants, such as salts and metals, maybe evidently-occurring or result from urban stormwater run-off, business, or home wastewater discharges, oil, and gasoline production, mining, or farming. Pesticides and herbicides may come from an expansion of assets along with agriculture, city typhoon water run-off, and home makes use of. Organic chemical contaminants, such as artificial and unstable organic chemical substances, which might be with the aid of products of commercial approaches and petroleum production can also come from gasoline stations, urban typhoon water run-off, and septic systems. Radioactive contaminants can be evidently- taking place or be the result of oil and gas manufacturing and mining sports. To ensure that faucet water is safe to drink, the EPA prescribes guidelines which restrict the number of positive contaminants in water provided through public water systems. FDA rules establish limits for contaminants in bottled water which should provide the same protections for public health. The following phrases and abbreviations are observed all through this document.As you can see by the Test Results Table, our machine had no MCL violations. We’re proud that your drinking water meets or exceeds all Federal and State necessities. More records about contaminants and ability health consequences can be acquired utilizing calling the Environmental Protection Agency’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791. MCLs are set at very stringent levels. To apprehend the feasible health results defined for many regulated parts, a person could have to drink(2) liters of water each day, which is about 8 (8) - 8 ounce glasses of water, on the MCL stage for an entire life to have a one-in-a-million danger of having the defined health effect. We continuously monitor the water deliver for diverse components. If a gift, elevated levels of lead can reason extreme fitness troubles, especially for pregnant women and young children. Lead in ingesting water is in general from substances and components related to provider lines and domestic plumbing. The City of Mt. Pleasant is accountable for offering excessive fine consuming water, however, can not control the kind of substances utilize.

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