College Utilities Corporation

College Utilities Corporation (CUC) can be wholly committed to featuring safe and trustworthy drinking water to our community. This responsibility pushes our focus on stringent regulatory compliance and functional excellence. Our team of licensed operators, lab scientists, certified technicians, and dedicated customer support professionals takes wonderful pride in the function we do and our commitment to the Fairbanks community. Like several other communities across the country and around the world, Fairbanks happens to be managing a complex scenario. CUC is posting its annual normal water quality report early on to alleviate potential issues about recently recognized perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) plumes within our local groundwater. CUC is working with the town, Airport, and the Ak Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) to provide water to houses where PFOA and PFOS concentrations go beyond the U. Ersus. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) health admonitory levels. The ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY established lifetime wellness advisory levels of seventy parts per trillion to provide consumers using a margin of defense against a lifetime of contact with PFOA and PFOS from drinking water. In answer to this emerging concern, we began screening our water on PFOA and PFOS out of a large quantity of caution. CUC’s water is safe to imbibe. There are trace levels of PFOA and PFOS detected at concentrations that are considerably less than the EPA’s well being advisory levels. The trace concentrations are more than 90% below the health advisory requirements. Working together with the community as well as the ADEC, we are carrying on to implement a great aggressive monitoring plan to ensure that our used water remains secure. Besides, we will be analyzing treatment options in the not likely event that concentrations of PFOA and PFOS increase to levels that go over the lifetime overall health advisory. Please take an instant to review the QUESTION AND ANSWER Section on page 8 for additional information concerning PFOA and PFOS. College Utilities Corporation (CUC) takes pride in the fine water we provide and are pleased to report to you that we get met or overtaken established water top quality standards. This gross annual water quality survey describes the source of your water, lists the results of our 2017 tests, and contains information about water and health. Benefits of Chlorination Disinfection, a chemical substance process used to control disease-causing microorganisms simply by killing or inactivating them, is unquestionably the most crucial step in drinking water treatment. Before communities started routinely treating moving water with chlorine, beginning with Chicago and Shirt City in 1908, cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery, and hepatitis killed thousands of Circumstance. S. residents yearly. Drinking water chlorination and filtration have helped to virtually get rid of these diseases in America. Significant strides in public area's health are straight linked to the adoption of drinking water chlorination. The filtration of drinking water plus the utilization of chlorine is probably the most important public health advancement in human history. Where Each of our Water Comes From We all operate three boreholes, 70 to 80 feet deep, which in turn pump an average of a few. 5 million gallons per day. These water wells tap the huge aquifer that lies underneath the Tanana Valley. Drinking water Testing and Your Wellness To ensure that tap water are secure to drink, the Circumstance. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) prescribes limits on the number of certain impurities in water offered by public water devices. Similarly, the Food Medication Administration (FDA) manages bottled drinking water. Moving water, including bottled water, may well reasonably be expected to contain at least small amounts of several contaminants. The presence of pollution does not necessarily show that the water positions a health risk. More information about pollutants and potential wellbeing effects can be obtained by simply calling the EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline (1-800-426-4791). (continued on page 4) 4 COLLEGE RESOURCES | 2018 DRINKING WATER QUALITY REPORT Resource Water Assessment • Microbiological contaminants, including viruses and bacterias, which may come from sewerage treatment plants, solid waste systems, agricultural animals operations, and animals. • Inorganic impurities, such as salts and metals, which can be natural or result from city storm runoff, commercial or domestic sewage discharges, oil and gas creation, mining or harvesting. • Pesticides and weed killers, which may come from several sources such as farming, stormwater runoff, and residential uses. • Organic chemical pollution, including synthetic and volatile organics, that are by-products of industrial procedures and petroleum development, and can also originate from gas stations, urban stormwater runoff, and solid waste systems. • Radioactive contaminants, which can be natural or be the consequence of oil and gas production and mining activities. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) Source Water Evaluation program was applied to make public drinking water systems and the public they will serve aware of potential wellhead and watershed contamination sources. The best public is the best friend in wellhead and watershed protection. CUC’s most recent source normal water assessment identified feasible contaminating activities (PCAs) located in the Fairbanks area. PCAs towards the top of CUC’s source drinking water (well water) weaknesses ranking include: professional activities, businesses, gas storage tanks, sewer lines, residential areas, landfill, airport, course V injection boreholes, and ADEC acknowledged contaminated sites. Because of the PCAs in our location, the Fairbanks aquifer received a high to very high vulnerability rating. Despite the high weakness ranking, CUC’s normal water quality remains steady and EPA up to date. If contaminant amounts above the allowable limitations are ever discovered in the source and distribution water, you can receive a notification on the results. Some of the pollutants that could be found in each of our source water will be removed during the drinking water treatment process just before distribution. CUC works numerous required checks on the water it provides to its customers. Standard monitoring of the origin wells, treatment procedure, and the distribution program helps to ensure normal water quality. In addition to ADEC and ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY required testing, CUC takes added examples from the distribution program and the source water wells to help ensure the protection of the water we all supply to our consumers. This sampling involves general water top quality tests such as ph level, total dissolved shades, conductivity, turbidity, firmness, alkalinity, salinity, and bacteriological analysis. The weekly water top quality tests and quarterly volatile organic chemical substance samples are meant to notify CUC to the existence of source drinking water contamination. If every one of us does the part to protect each of our water resources, we could ensure that future decades will have ample materials of high-quality water. An entire copy of the resource water assessment record can be obtained by getting in touch with the College Utilities’ customer care department at 907-479-3118. The sources of water to drink (both tap water and bottled water) consist of rivers, lakes, avenues, ponds, reservoirs, suspension springs, and wells. Because the water travels within the surface of the terrain or through the floor, it dissolves natural minerals and radioactive material and can get substances resulting from the existence of animals or via human activity. Contaminants that may be present in source normal water include: Water Screening and Your Health (continued from page 3) Consumers With Particular Health Concerns Some people might be more vulnerable to impurities in drinking water compared to the general population. Immuno-compromised persons such as individuals with cancer going through chemotherapy, persons that have undergone organ transplants, people with HIV/AIDS or perhaps other immune system disorders, some elderly and infants can be especially at risk from attacks. These people should look for advice about liquids from their health care providers..

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