Destin Water Users Inc.

We are pleased to present to you this yr's Annual Water Quality Report. The water fine report is an annual guide that is required using the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This file is designed to inform you about the first-rate of the water and services we deliver to you each day. Our constant purpose is to offer you a secure and reliable deliver of consuming water. We want you to apprehend the efforts we make to usually improve the water remedy technique and shield our water assets. We are dedicated to making sure the first-rate of your water. Our water sources are floor water from our 6 coastal wells and water bought from South Walton Utility Company, Inc. All of these wells draw from the Floridan Aquifer. Because of the notable first-class of our water, the most effective treatments required at Destin Water Users and South Walton Utility Company are chlorine and/or sodium hypochlorite for disinfection purposes. Destin Water Users (DWU) mechanically monitors for contaminants in your drinking water in keeping with Federal and State legal guidelines, guidelines and policies. Except wherein indicated in any other case, this document is based totally on the consequences of our tracking from January 1, 2017, to December 31, 2017. Data received earlier than January 1, 2017, and supplied in this document, are from the latest trying out finished according to to the legal guidelines, rules, and rules. The sources of drinking water (both tap water and bottled water) include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As water travels over the floor of the land or via the ground, it dissolves naturally-occurring minerals and in a few instances radioactive cloth, and can select up substances because of the presence of animals or from human interest. Contaminants that can be present in source water consist of:(A) Microbial contaminants, which includes viruses and microorganism, which may additionally come from sewage remedy plants, septic systems, agricultural cattle operations, and wildlife. (B) Inorganic contaminants, such as salts and metals, which can be naturally-going on or result from urban hurricane water runoff, business or domestic wastewater discharges, oil and gas production, mining, or farming. (C) Pesticides and herbicides, which may come from a ramification of resources consisting of agriculture, urban typhoon water runoff, and residential makes use of. (D) Organic chemical contaminants, inclusive of artificial and unstable natural chemicals, which can be with the aid of products of commercial tactics and petroleum production, and can also come from gas stations, city stormwater runoff, and septic systems. (E) Radioactive contaminants, which can be certainly happening or be the result of oil and gas manufacturing and mining activities. To make certain that faucet water is safe to drink, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) prescribes guidelines, which limit the number of sure contaminants in water furnished with the aid of public water systems. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) policies set up limits for contaminants in bottled water, which need to provide identical safety for public health. Drinking water, together with bottled water, might also moderately be anticipated to comprise at least small quantities of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does no longer necessarily indicate that the water poses a fitness threat. More records about contaminants and ability fitness results may be acquired employing calling the EPA Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426- 4791. Page 3 of five In the subsequent table, you can fi.

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