City of San Marcos

The City of San Marcos Water/Wastewater Utilities’ goal and responsibility is to give you safe and dependable drinking water. Our water is obtained from surface area and ground drinking water sources. Our floor water comes from the Edwards Aquifer (South BFZ) and the surface water originates from Canyon Lake. Really is endless this information helps you be a little more knowledgeable about what’s within your drinking water. Please please contact our Drinking water Quality Manager in (512) 393-8038 in case you have any questions or perhaps would like to request a gathering regarding your drinking water. The sources of drinking water (both tap and bottled) include rivers, ponds, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and water wells. As water moves over the surface from the land or throughout the ground, it dissolves naturally-occurring minerals and, in some cases, radioactive materials, and can pick up chemicals resulting from the presence of pets or liveliness. A Source Drinking water Susceptibility Assessment to your drinking water source(s) happens to be being updated by Texas Commission about Environmental Quality. These details describe the susceptibility and types of constituents that may touch your drinking water resource based on human actions and natural circumstances. The information contained in the evaluation allows us to focus on supply water protection tactics. For more information about your causes of water, please refer to the Source Water Evaluation Viewer available at https://www.tceq.texas.gov/gis/ sea view Further information about sources and resource water assessments can be found in Drinking Water Watch in https://www.tceq.texas.gov/drinkingwater/ drinking_wq. code Drinking water, including water in bottles, may reasonably be anticipated to contain in the least small amounts of some contaminants. The existence of contaminants does not always indicate that drinking water poses a wellness risk. More information regarding contaminants and potential health effects can be acquired by calling the EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Servicenummer at (800) 426-4791. To ensure that plain tap water is safe to drink, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY prescribes regulations that usually limit the number of particular contaminants in drinking water provided by public drinking water systems. FDA rules establish limits intended for contaminants in water in bottles which must supply the same protection intended for public health. Contaminants might be found in drinking water which may cause taste, color or odor complications. These types of problems are certainly not causes for health issues. For more information on flavor, odor, or color of drinking water, please call us at (512) 393-8010. Contaminants that may be within source water before treatment include · Microbial contaminants including viruses and bacterias which may come from sewerage treatment plants, solid waste systems, agricultural animals operations, and animals. · Inorganic pollutants such as salts and metals which can be naturally-occurring or result from city stormwater runoff, industrial or household wastewater discharges, gas and oil production, mining or perhaps farming. · & nitrogen-laden herbicides which may originate from a variety of sources including agriculture, urban surprise water runoff, and residential uses. · Organic chemical pollutants including synthetic and volatile organic chemical substances, which are by-products of business processes and petroleum production and can likewise come from gas stations, city stormwater runoff and septic devices. · Radioactive pollutants which can be naturally-occurring or maybe the result of oil and gas creation and mining actions If present raised levels of lead may cause serious health problems, specifically for pregnant women and young kids. Lead in water primarily comes from components and components connected with service lines and home plumbing. Our company is responsible for providing top quality drinking water, but all of us cannot control the range of materials used in plumbing related components. When your drinking water has been sitting for many hours, you can reduce the potential for lead publicity by flushing the tap for half a minute to 2 moments before using drinking water for drinking or perhaps cooking. If you are worried about lead in your drinking water, you may wish to have the water tested. Information about lead in water, testing methods and steps you can take to minimize publicity are available from the A safe drinking water supply Hotline or at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/lead..

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