Greenwood CPW

Greenwood CPW is very happy to present our 2018 Annual Drinking Water Quality Report. We are proud to declare that our water is constantly on the meet and exceed all state and federal drinking water quality standards underneath the Safe Drinking Water Take action. ” This record is designed to provide you with info concerning the water quality we deliver for you every day. To guard you, our highly valued customer, the United States Epa (EPA) and the Sc Department of Into the Environmental Control (DHEC) have established strict requirements for drinking water. These types of standards protect customers from waterborne disease organisms and dangerous chemicals. On an annual basis, the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY requires all open public water systems to supply customers with details about water quality and compliance with environmental standards through Drinking water Quality Reports. The constant goal is definitely to provide you having a safe and reliable supply of drinking water. All of us want you to comprehend the efforts all of us make to continually improve the water treatment process and shield our water assets. Greenwood CPW satisfies standards significantly greater than current regulations. This notable performance arrives in part to our involvement in the Sc Area Wide Marketing Program (AWOP). The W. R. Smart Water Treatment Grow was recognized by DHEC for achieving the AWOP goals. Greenwood CPW continues to acquire EPA and the American Water Works Association (AWWA) as a member of the Partnership for Safe and sound Water. Watts. R. Wise Drinking water Treatment Plant provides received both the Director’s Award and the Superiority in Water Treatment Award for this system annually since 2001 and 2006, correspondingly. Greenwood CPW may be the only water provider in South Carolina to have achieved the Excellence in Drinking water Treatment Award. Exactly where does your water originate from? Our water supply is Lake Greenwood, which is located in the Saluda River Pot of South Carolina. The W. R. Smart Water Treatment Grow is located on Lake Greenwood at 202 Water Plant Street, off Puckett’s Ferry Road. The Sc Department of Health insurance and Environmental Control ready the source water evaluation plan for our drinking water source. This plan can be available for your review at the W. L. Wise Water Treatment Plant. Please contact the water treatment flower superintendent at 864-953-2411 to make arrangements to examine this document. Supply Water Assessment Overview This report provides the completed source drinking water susceptibility assessment meant for Greenwood CPW, Program No . 2410001. The device includes public supply intakes S24101. The device is located in the Greenwood Region and serves an initial population of fifty-four, 718. The system is situated in the Saluda-Edisto pot. Of the 781 potential contamination sources (PCS) in this initial inventory, 506 PCS acquired more than one category of pollutants. The inventory contains volatile organic substances (VOC), petroleum items, metals, nitrates, pesticides/herbicides, pathogens, and radionuclides. Potential options for these contaminants consist of gas stations, dry cleaners, agricultural areas, car repair shops, septic systems, and services where potential pollutants are stored. To find out more about California's source water evaluation program and watersheds visit www.scdhec.gov/HomeAndEnvironment/ Water/SourceWaterProtection. How is your water treated? The traditional water treatment procedure (disinfection, coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, and filtration) contains many obstacles to safeguard our clients from the transmission of waterborne illnesses, which were very common in our nation somewhat over 100 years back. Our treatment facility comes with an approved treatment optimum capacity of thirty-three million gallons of water per day. Water from Lake Greenwood is pumped in the lake via two raw water content located in the lake. Powdered activated co2 is added seasonally for taste & odor control. Several disinfectants, free chlorine, chlorine dioxide, and chloramines are added throughout the treatment procedure for pathogen inactivation and oxidation of trace metals with minimum disinfection byproduct formation. Alum is certainly added to remove the turbidity (particles) from the drinking water and 25% salt hydroxide is added for pH control. The water is allowed to settle through the sedimentation basins. The settled drinking water is filtered through conventional dual press filter beds composed of anthracite coal and sand to remove the majority of the remaining particles. After filtration, additional chlorine is added along with ammonia to create chloramines as the last disinfectant for the distribution system. Lime green is added intended for final pH control and fluoride is usually added as a teeth decay preventative. Just how is your drinking water tested? The Greenwood CPW routinely screens for more than a hundred and fifty substances in our moving water according to the federal government and state laws and regulations in our state qualified laboratories. Most of the outcomes show that impurities are not present within our drinking water, but there are several exceptions. The furniture below shows the results of the monitoring for controlled drinking water contaminants which were detected during the 2017 calendar year, with exclusions noted. Most examples were taken on the water treatment grow at a point right before the water enters the distribution system, yet trihalomethanes, haloacetic acids, total & waste coliform, and business lead and copper conformity samples were supervised from customer shoes throughout the distribution program. State and federal regulations usually do not require us to examine the water for all those contaminants during every calendar year. The information supplied in these tables signifies the most recent samples consumed per the relevant regulations. Where perform contaminants come from? Because the water travels within the land or through the ground, it can grab substances and result in our lakes and rivers. These types of substances or “contaminants” include microbes, this kind of as viruses and bacteria, inorganic chemical substances, such as materials and salts, organic chemicals, which can be man-made or volatile, radioactive substances, which are normally occurring, and insect poison and herbicides from agricultural activities. Every drinking water, including bottled drinking water, maybe fairly expected to contain in the least small amounts of some contaminants. You need to remember that the presence of these types of contaminants does not always pose a wellness risk. To make sure that tap water is safe to imbibe, EPA and DHEC prescribe regulations which usually limit the number of particular contaminants in drinking water provided by public drinking water systems. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules establish limits to get contaminants in water in bottles which should provide equal protection for community health. Important Information about health Some people may be more vulnerable to contaminants in drinking water than the overall population. Immuno-compromised people, such as individuals with cancer going through chemotherapy, persons who may have undergone organ transplants, people with HIV/AIDS or other immune system disorders, some elderly, and infants can be especially at risk from infections. These people should look for advice about water to drink from their health care companies. EPA/CDC guidelines upon appropriate means to reduce the risk of infection simply by cryptosporidium and additional microbiological contaminants can be found from the Safe Water Hotline (800-426-4791). So what do the Tables Mean? As you will see in the following tables, our bodies had no infractions. We’re proud that your drinking water fits or exceeds every Federal and Condition requirements. We have discovered through our monitoring and testing that some substances have already been detected. The ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY has determined that your water IS SECURE at these amounts..

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