City of St. Clair Shores

The town of St . Clair Shores is very happy to present the Water Top quality Report 2018 for you, our water and sewer customers. This kind of report provides a overview of important information with regards to your drinking water. The good news: the town of St . Évident Shores has among the cleanest water devices in the country. We not merely provide you with safe plain tap water, but are also happy to say that the drinking water we supply matches or surpasses almost all Federal and Condition standards for drinking water quality and security. WHAT IS THE GLWA? January 1, 2016 marked the release of a regional drinking water authority in Southeast Michigan. The City of Detroit, the counties of Macomb, Oakland, David, and the State of Michigan officially combined to form the Great Ponds Water Authority (GLWA). The new GLWA provides suburban water and sewer customers a strong voice in the administration and direction of just one of the largest drinking water and wastewater resources in the nation. GLWA handles the administration and control of the regional water and wastewater services. Of detroit and suburban areas retain control of drinking water and sewer solutions within their city limitations. For more information on the GLWA, check out their website in www. glwater. org. WHAT DETERMINES MY PERSONAL BILL? The City of St . Clair Shore line bills water simply by unitone unit means 100 cubic feet or perhaps 748 gallons. You may already know, we buy our water from the GLWA. Every penny that you just pay on your water/sewer bill is used to get water from GLWA and maintain our seventy-plus-year old water program. Like the roof in your home or your vehicle, our water program needs constant repair. WHAT IS THE CITY PERFORMING TO REDUCE {MY|EACH OF OUR} DRINKING WATER BILL? Reducing your drinking water bill really depends upon water consumption and water loss. DRINKING WATER CONSUMPTION: As you know, the new Water Solutions Contract with the GLWA includes two fresh ordinances designed to ensure that the City regulate the peak hour drinking water consumption to the most reasonable rates from the GLWA. The first code restricts water usage during a water supply crisis. The second ordinance limits irrigation to odd/even numbered days. Once followed, these activities result in a large financial savings to the City and to the water customers. St Clair Shores water comes from the planets largest fresh water source - the Great Ponds. St . Clair Shore line receives water coming from two facilities managed by GLWA -- the Northeast and Lake Huron treatment plants. The surface drinking water treatment plants filtration system and treat drinking water before it’s introduced into the GLWA drinking water system transmission lines and delivered to the distribution system and lastly to you, our highly valued customer. A very important truth we must realize would be that the quality of our water is directly impacted by our own property drinking water runoff and the launch of improperly discarded materials into the stormwater system. Keeping turf clippings from the roads and catch basins and using eco safe lawn and garden fertilizer products helps muck and algae complications. Drinking water, including water in bottles, may reasonably be anticipated to contain in least small amounts of some contaminants. The existence of contaminants does not always indicate that the drinking water poses a wellness risk. More information regarding contaminants and potential health effects can be acquired by calling environmentally friendly Protection Agency’s (EPA) Safe Drinking Water Hotline in 800-426-4791. The causes of drinking water (both plain tap water and bottled water) 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 from the presence of animals or coming from human activity. Contaminants which may be present in source drinking water include: • Microbes contaminants, such as infections and bacteria, which might come from sewage treatment plants, septic devices, agricultural livestock procedures and wildlife. • Inorganic contaminants, including salts and alloys, which can be naturallyoccurring or perhaps result from urban stormwater runoff, industrial or perhaps domestic wastewater secretions, oil and gas production, exploration or farming. • Pesticides and herbicides, which might come from a variety of resources such as agriculture, city stormwater runoff and residential uses. Organic and natural chemical contaminants, which includes synthetic and risky organics, which are by-products of industrial processes and petroleum production and may also come from gasoline stations, urban stormwater elope and septic devices. • Radioactive pollutants, which can be naturally-occurring or perhaps be the result of gas and oil production and exploration activities. In order to make sure that tap water is safe to imbibe, EPA prescribes rules which limit the quantity of certain contaminants found in water provided by general public water systems. The fda regulations establish restricts for contaminants found in bottled water, which need to provide the same safety for public health. Many people may be more vulnerable to contaminants in water than is the basic population. Immuno-compromised individuals such as persons with cancer undergoing radiation treatment, persons who have gone through organ transplants, individuals with HIV/AIDS or additional immune system disorders, a few elderly, and babies can be particularly in danger from infections. These individuals should seek guidance about drinking water using their health care providers. If present, elevated levels of business lead can cause serious health issues, especially for pregnant women and young children. Lead in drinking water is mainly from materials and components associated with support lines and house plumbing. St . Évident Shores is responsible for offering high quality drinking water, yet cannot control the range of materials used in domestic plumbing 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 is available from the A safe drinking water supply Hotline at 800-426-4791 or at the EPA’s website at www.epa. gov/ safewater/lead. In case you have questions or remarks about source drinking water and contaminants, you may even call the DPW Water Dpt. in 586-445- 5374. They may be open Monday-Friday coming from 7: 00a. meters. to 3: 30 g. m Your resource water comes from the Detroit River, located within the Lake St Clair and several watersheds within the U. H. and Canada, as well as the lower Lake Intratable watershed which also contains several short periodic streams that drain into Lake Intratable. The Michigan Division of Environmental Top quality in partnership with the Of detroit Water and Sewerage Department and several additional governmental agencies performed a Source Drinking water Assessment in 2005 to determine the susceptibility or perhaps relative potential of contamination. The susceptibility rating is on the seven-tiered scale coming from “very low to “very high” centered primarily on geological sensitivity, water biochemistry and contamination resources. The susceptibility of the Detroit River resource water intakes had been determined to be extremely susceptible to potentia.

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