City of Talladega Water and Sewer Board

`Your City Water officials vigilantly guard its water substances and yet again we're proud to offer to you this 12 months' Annual Drinking Water Quality Report. This report is designed to tell you approximately the excellent water and services we supply to you every day. Our consistent purpose is to provide you with a safe and dependable supply of drinking water. We want you to apprehend the efforts we make to always improve the water treatment manner and defend our water assets. We are committed to ensuring the nice of your water. This year’s file now and then known as the “Consumer Confidence Report” covers the calendar year 2016 water great testing and has been organized in compliance with all relevant State and Federal regulations. Following the Safe Drinking Water Act, the City of Talladega Water & Sewer Department video display units over a hundred compounds to your water supply. This record consists of a complete listing of these kinds of compounds, whether they have been in reality detected or not. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) are the organizations accountable for establishing consuming water nice standards. To make sure that your tap water is secure to drink, USEPA and ADEM prescribe policies that restrict the number of sure contaminants in water supplied by public water structures. What You Need to Know About Your Water, and How it May Affect You Sources of Supply & Water Treatment Techniques The City of Talladega Water & Sewer Department’s water deliver comes from a blend of groundwater from four active wells and surface water from the City’s Surface Water Treatment Plant. The wells draw water from the Rome and Knox Aquifers. This contains about 80 percent of our overall ingesting water supply. The water produced utilizing Talladega’s 4 groundwater assets is chlorinated for disinfection purposes and fluoride is delivered to promote dental hygiene. The final twenty percent of our drinking water deliver comes from the Surface Water Treatment Plant, which draws uncooked water from a reservoir created utilizing a low head dam built on Talladega Creek around 1923. Treatment at this facility includes the addition of lime and liquid alum for coagulation and flocculation. In the following level, chlorine is brought for disinfection and algae control previous to sedimentation, which permits unwanted solids to settle out. The water is then filtered through media beds containing various sizes of sand and gravel, after which chlorinated again for disinfection functions. Caustic soda is then delivered for pH adjustment and corrosion manipulate at the side of fluoride to sell dental hygiene. The mixed potential of all these resources offers us the potential to pump over eight million gallons per day. Our average usage is just barely over 4 million gallons according to today. A Source Water Assessment Plan has been completed for all the assets listed above. The plan is available for an overview of the City of Talladega Water & Sewer Department’s workplace, positioned at one hundred North Court Street, Talladega, Alabama. A public listening to become held January 30, 2003, to offer the consequences of the Source Water Assessment Program and answer any questions. A Wellhead Protection Plan for the groundwater (properly) resources has additionally been completed and is also available for assessment. The City of Talladega Water & Sewer Department automatically completes a water storage facility inspection plan, makes use of a Bacteriological Monitoring Plan and a Cross Connection Policy to make sure desirable safe consuming water for our customers. Basic Information About Drinking Water Contaminants The sources of drinking water (each tap water and bottled water) consists of rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As water travels over the floor of the land or through the layers of the floor, it dissolves going on minerals and, in a few cases, radioactive material, and it can choose up materials as a consequence of the presence of animals or from the human hobby. Contaminants that can be present in source water encompass: Microbial contaminants, together with bacteria and viruses, which may additionally come from wastewater remedy flowers, septic systems, agricultural livestock operations, and the natural world... Inorganic contaminants, along with salts and metals, can be certainly occurring or result from urban typhoon runoff, commercial or home wastewater discharges, oil and gasoline manufacturing, mining and farming. Radioactive contaminants, which may be occurring or be the result of oil and gas manufacturing or mining sports. Pesticides and herbicides, which may come from an expansion of sources consisting of agriculture, urban typhoon water runoff, and home uses. Organic chemical contaminants, including synthetic and risky natural chemicals, which are byproducts of commercial approaches and petroleum manufacturing, and also can come from gasoline stations, urban typhoon water runoff, agricultural applications, and septic structures. To assure that tap water is secure to drink, the USEPA and ADEM prescribe regulations that restrict the number of sure contaminants in water supplied utilizing public water structures. The Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) establishes limits for contaminants in bottled water. All drinking water, which includes bottled water, can also reasonably be expected to include as a minimum small quantity of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does now not always imply that the water poses a fitness chance. More data approximately contaminants and capacity fitness outcomes may be received utilizing calling the USEPA’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline at (800) 426-4791 between nine:00 a.M. And five:00 p.M. Eastern Time. Immune-compromised People Some human beings may be extra susceptible to contaminants in ingesting water than others in the trendy population. Immune-compromised people which include people with most cancers who're undergoing chemotherapy, persons who've passed through organ transplants, people with HIV/AIDS or other immune system problems, a few aged people and toddlers can be particularly at danger for infections. These humans must are be trying to find recommendations approximately ingesting water from their fitness care providers. The USEPA and CDC (Centers for Disease Control) suggestions on the suitable methods to reduce the hazard of contamination employing cryptosporidium and different microbiological contaminants are available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline (800-426-4791). Explanation of Reasons for Variances and Waivers Based on a look at carried out with the aid of ADEM with the approval of the EPA a statewide waiver for the monitoring of asbestos and dioxin become issued, therefore monitoring for those contaminants changed into not required. The desk underneath lists all of the drinking water contaminants that we detected in the course of the calendar yr of this report. The presence of contaminants within the water does not necessarily suggest that the water poses a health chance. Unless in any other case referred to, the facts presented on this desk are from testing accomplished in the calendar year of the record. The EPA or ADEM requires us to reveal for positive contaminants less than as soon as according to 12 months due to the fact the concentrations of those contaminants do no longer alternate often..

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