Consolidated Mutual Maple Grove

We are proud to present to you our 2017 Maple Grove Water Quality Report. Over the years, we've devoted ourselves to producing drinking water that meets all national and federal ingesting water standards. We constantly attempt to adopt new and higher strategies for turning in the fine high-quality ingesting water to you. As new challenges to ingesting water safety emerge, we continue to be vigilant in assembly the challenges of supply water safety, water conservation, and network training whilst continuing to serve the desires of all our water users. WATER SOURCE The City of Maple Grove affords drinking water to its residents from groundwater sources; normally from 10 wells, 157 to 295 feet deep, developed within the surficial Glacial Drift aquifer. The City has every other 2 wells advanced inside the Mt. Simon-Hinckley bedrock aquifer, used for emergency supply best. Total pumping capacity is 34,000 gallons in step with minute. Raw water is pumped from the wells to the Maple Grove water remedy plant wherein it is treated to reduce iron and manganese content. Manganese content material is reduced from .6 components in line with million to .03 parts consistent with million and iron content is decreased from .02 elements consistent with million to .001 parts in line with million. These elements pose no health threat but can cause water discoloration and staining. Raw water is also dealt with chlorine and fluoride as required via the Minnesota State Health Department (MDH). The dealt with water is then pumped into the distribution device havingextended water towers and ground garage reservoirs with a blended capacity of 10.5 MG. The garage tanks offer for water strain, height day demand, and fireplace protection. Maple Grove Public Water Supply machine affords about 2.Eight BGY dealt with water to Maple Grove, Osseo, Corcoran, and Dayton. Minnesota Department of Health source water evaluation identifies the Drift aquifer wells as susceptible to infection. To gain the MDH supply water evaluation, please call 651-201-4700 or 1-800-818-9318 (and press 5) in the course of ordinary commercial enterprise hours. It may be regarded online at www. Health.State.Mn.Us/divs/eh/water/swp/swa. Maple Grove Wellhead Protection Plan identifies Drift aquifer recharge control location, capability infection sources, and management practices. The City of Maple Grove Utility Division personnel is dedicated to responding to the wishes of the residents of our network in a timely and expert way. Water and Sewer Department vehicles are blue in shade and application personnel incorporates Maple Grove photograph identity cards. MAKING SAFE DRINKING WATER Your consuming water comes from a groundwater source: ten wells starting from 157 to 295 feet deep, that draw water from the Quaternary Buried Artesian and Quaternary Water Table aquifers. Maple Grove works hard to provide you with secure and dependable consuming water that meets federal and country water excellent necessities. The cause of this record is to provide you with facts on your drinking water and how to guard our precious water sources. Contact Mark Nelson, Utilities Supervisor, at 763-494-6370 or mnelson@maplegrovemn.Gov if you have questions on Maple Grove’s consuming water. You also can ask for statistics approximately how you could participate in choices that could affect water quality How to Read the Water Quality Data Tables The tables (proven on web page three) display the contaminants we located closing year or the latest time we sampled for that contaminant. They also display the tiers of those contaminants and the Environmental Protection Agency’s limits. Substances that we tested for however did no longer locate are not blanketed in the tables. We sample for a few contaminants less than once a 12 months due to the fact their stages in water are not anticipated to change from 12 months to yr. If we observed any of these contaminants the ultimate time we sampled for them, we included them in the tables underneath with the detection date. We can also have carried out additional tracking for contaminants that are not blanketed inside the Safe Drinking Water Act. To request a duplicate of those consequences, name the Minnesota Department of Health at 651-201-4700 or 1-800-818-9318 between eight:00 a.M. And four:30 p.M., Monday via Friday Learn More About Your Drinking Water Sources Minnesota’s number one ingesting water sources are groundwater and surface water. Groundwater is the water observed in aquifers below the floor of the land. Groundwater materials seventy five percent of Minnesota’s consuming water. Surface water is the water in lakes, rivers, and streams above the surface of the land. Surface water substances 25 percentage of Minnesota’s consuming water. Contaminants can get in drinking water resources from the natural surroundings and people’s each day sports. There are 5 essential styles of contaminants in consuming water sources. • Microbial contaminants, consisting of viruses, bacteria, and parasites. Sources include sewage treatment flora, septic systems, agricultural farm animals operations, pets, and the natural world. • Inorganic contaminants encompass salts and metals from herbal resources (e.G. Rock and soil), oil and gasoline production, mining and farming operations, urban stormwater runoff, and wastewater discharges. • Pesticides and herbicides are chemical compounds used to lessen or kill undesirable flowers and pests. Sources encompass agriculture, city hurricane water runoff, and industrial and home homes. • Organic chemical contaminants include synthetic and risky organic compounds. Sources include industrial techniques and petroleum production, gas stations, city hurricane water runoff, and septic structures. • Radioactive contaminants along with radium, thorium, and uranium isotopes come from natural sources (e.G. Radon fuel from soils and rock), mining operations, and oil and gas manufacturing. The Minnesota Department of Health provides data approximately your consuming water source(s) in a supply water evaluation, such as: • How Maple Grove is shielding your consuming water source(s); • Nearby threats in your consuming water sources; • How without problems water and pollutants can flow from the floor of the land into drinking water resources, based on herbal geology and the way wells are built. Find your source water evaluation at Source Water Assessments (www.Fitness.Country.Mn.Us/ divs/eh/water/swp/swa/) or call 651-201-4700 or 1-800-818-9318 among 8:00 a.M. And 4:30 p.M., Monday thru Friday. Lead in Drinking Water You may be in touch with lead through paint, water, dust, soil, food, pastimes, or your activity. Coming in contact with lead can motive extreme fitness problems for anyone. There isn't any safe stage of lead. Babies, youngsters under six years, and pregnant women are at the highest hazard. Lead is hardly ever in consuming water supply, however, it may get to your drinking water because it passes thru lead carrier traces and your household plumbing machine. Maple Grove offers high quality ingesting water, however, it cannot control the plumbing materials used in personal homes. Read under to find out how you can protect yourself from the lead in ingesting water. 1. Let the water run for 30-60 seconds before the usage of it for consuming or cooking if the water has no longer grows to become on in over six hours. If you have got a lead provider line, you can want to let the water run longer. A carrier line is an underground pipe that brings water from the primary water pipe beneath the street to your property. ? You can find out when you have a lead carrier line by contacting your public water gadget, or you may take a look at by using following the steps at: Are your pipes made of lead? Here’s a short way to find out (https://www.Mprnews.Org/ tale/2016/06/24/npr-locate-lead-pipes-in your-domestic). ? The handiest way to recognize if the lead has been reduced by letting it run is to test with a take a look at. If letting the water run does not reduce lead, recollect different alternatives to lessen your exposure. 2. Use bloodless water for ingesting, making meals, and making baby method. Hot water releases extra lead from pipes than cold water. 3. Test your water. In maximum instances, letting the water run and the use of bloodless water for consuming and cooking have to hold lead levels low for your ingesting water. If you are still concerned approximately lead, set up with a laboratory to test your faucet water. Testing your water is crucial if young children or pregnant ladies drink your tap water. ? Contact a Minnesota Department of Health authorized laboratory to get a sample box and instructions on how to publish a pattern: Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (https://apps.Health.State.Mn.Us/eldo/ public/accredited labs/lab search.Seam). The Minnesota Department of Health lets you apprehend your take a look at consequences. 4. Treat your water if a test shows your water has high levels of lead once you let the water run. ? Read approximately water treatment devices: Point-of-Use Water Treatment Units for Lead Reduction (http://www.Health.State.Mn.Us/ divs/eh/water/factsheet/com/poulead.Html). Learn More ? Visit Lead in Drinking Water (http://www. Fitness.Country.Mn.Us/divs/eh/water/contaminants/ lead.Html#Protect). ? Visit Basic Information about Lead in Drinking Water (http://www.Epa.Gov/safewater/lead). ? Call the EPA Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1 800 426 4791.To learn about a way to reduce your touch with lead from assets other than your ingesting water, go to Lead Poisoning Prevention: Common Sources (http://www. Fitness.Kingdom.Mn.Us/divs/eh/lead/sources.Html).

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