East Alabama Water Sewer and Fire Protection District

We are pleased to give a precis of the pleasant of the water supplied to you all through the beyond a year. The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) requires that utility issue an annual "Consumer Confidence" report to clients in addition to other notices that may be required by law. This report info wherein our water comes from, what it includes, and the dangers our water testing and remedy are designed to prevent. East Alabama Water, Sewer, and Fire Protection District is devoted to supplying you with the safest and most reliable water supply. Informed clients are our first-rate allies in preserving safe ingesting water. Call us for information about the following opportunity for public participation in choices approximately our ingesting water. The Board of Directors meets each month at the 1/3 Thursday of the month at five:30 PM EST on the District’s workplaces at a hundred and fifty Fob James Drive Valley, Alabama. The contemporary Board of Directors includes the following men and women: Mr. Terrell Bishop, Mr. Andrew Leak, Mr. Bob Johnson, Mrs. Yvonne Stanford, Mr. Chuck Goodwin, Mr. Kim Williams, and Mr. Jerry Thrower. For further facts concerning this water satisfactory report or any District business, feel unfastened to name the District Manager, Tony Segrest, at (334) 756- 7150. You can discover us online @ www.Eawsfd.Com, and on Facebook.Com/eastalabamawatersewerandfiredistrict. Water Source: East Alabama Water, Sewer, and Fire Protection District gets its drinking water from the Chattahoochee Valley Water Supply District, which pulls the water from the Chattahoochee River in Lanett, Alabama. The remedy plant is a floor water remedy plant, which makes use of oxidation, chemical coagulation, chlorination, fluoridation, pH adjustment, and filtration to provide potable water for this area, and is placed in Lanett, Alabama. East Alabama additionally has as-wished connections with the following structures: Beulah Utilities District, Randolph County Water Authority, City of West Point Georgia. Source Water Assessment: Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood, Inc. Finished a Source Water Assessment in 2017 along with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management and the District. The evaluation observed 60 potential assets of contamination; these web sites had been studied and rated by way of the 3 entities listed above with six (6) of the web sites decided to have moderated chance and 54 had been determined to have a low chance of contamination to the Districts water source. A whole copy of the District’s Source Water Assessment can be reviewed on the District’s workplaces in Valley, Alabama or for a nominal copying rate; a duplicate can be obtained at an identical location. An Explanation of the Water-Quality Data Table: The desk shows the results of our water-quality analyses. Every regulated contaminant that we detected in the water, even inside the minutest strains, is indexed right here. The table consists of the call of every substance, the very best level allowed utilizing law (MCL), the right desires for public health (MCLG), the amount detected, the standard sources of such infection, footnotes explaining our findings, and a key to units of dimension.Additional Information for Lead: If present, improved levels of lead can reason serious health problems, especially for pregnant women and young kids. Lead in drinking water is often from substances and components associated with service strains and domestic plumbing. East Alabama Water Sewer and Fire Protection District is answerable for imparting excessive pleasant ingesting water, however, can't control the type of cloth utilized in plumbing additives. When your water has been sitting for several hours, you could minimize the potential for lead exposure through flushing your tap for 30 seconds to two (2) minutes earlier than the use of water for ingesting or cooking. The Chattahoochee Valley Water Supply District uses a complex, long linear chain (Polyortho Phosphate) to optimize corrosion manage within the water machine. This technique produces a green barrier between the water and the machine infrastructure piping, 5 decreasing the formation of corrosion scaling and leaching of harmful metals from the piping. Both EPA and ADEM apprehend this system in water treatment for meeting the requirements required in the 1991 EPA Lead and Copper Rule. This treatment has been used for the reason that implementation of the 1991 Rule with a great deal success producing secure, high great water for its consumers. If you are involved in lead for your ingesting water, you could want to have your water tested. Information on lead in ingesting water, checking out methods, and steps you can take to minimize exposure is to be had from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline or at http://www.Epa.Gov/safewater/lead. Cryptosporidium Monitoring: Cryptosporidium is a microbial pathogen located in surface water during the USA. Although filtration removes cryptosporidium, the most normally used filtration methods can not guarantee 100% removal. The monitoring at the Chattahoochee Valley Water Plant shows the presence of those organisms in our supply water and/or finished water, and modern-day test strategies do not allow us to determine if the organisms are lifeless, or if they can cause disease. The Chattahoochee Valley Water Supply District changed into required with the aid of EPA and State organizations to test for Cryptosporidium and E. Coli. The test required the District to acquire one sample in step with month for twenty-4 (24) consecutive months. The consequences classify which remedy approach might be used to dispose of the contaminants. The trying out became executed by the Montgomery Environmental Lab, with an result of zero.017 oocysts/L, which did not bring about a trade of remedy method. Other Monitoring: In addition to trying out this is required, the East Alabama Water, Sewer, and Fire Protection District along with the Chattahoochee Valley Water Supply District voluntarily test for masses of extra substances and microscopic organisms to make sure our water is secure and of excessive pleasant. If you are interested in a extra special record or for extra facts you can touch East Alabama Water, Sewer, and Fire Protection District at (334) 756-7150, email at customerservice@eawsfd.Com, or write us at P.O. Box 37, Valley, AL 36854..

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Is fluoride in my ingesting water? Yes, trace quantities of fluoride arise clearly in the water. The City of Alcoa adjusts this to the level encouraged by way of the American Dental Association and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention for optimum dental health. Numerous research has proven that fluoridated water will aid in the prevention of tooth decay. More statistics may be located at www.Ada.Org and www.Cdc.Gov..