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What is a Water Quality Report? Illinois American Water issues a file yearly describing the satisfactory of your ingesting water in compliance with state and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) rules. The cause of this document is to increase information about drinking water requirements and raise the consciousness of the need to defend your ingesting water assets. At our ultra-modern studies laboratory in Belleville, Illinois, we conduct hundreds of tests per year, checking ingesting water first-class at each degree of the water remedy and shipping procedure. In 2017, we conducted tests for loads of contaminants, along with people with federal and state maximum allowable tiers. This file presents an overview of the final year’s (2017) water quality results. It consists of information about your water and what it incorporates. Partnership for Safe Drinking Water Program Illinois American Water’s Alton District is a volunteer player in the USEPA’s Partnership For Safe Water, a countrywide software designed to gain operational excellence in water treatment. In 2013 the Alton facility turned into presented the prestigious Ten Year Director’s Award below the Partnership for Safe Water application. The award honors water utilities for achieving operational excellence, via voluntarily optimizing their treatment facility operations and adopting more stringent performance goals than those required by using federal and kingdom consuming water requirements. We are proud to document that we have maintained those standards in 2017. Source Water Information Illinois EPA considers all surface water resources of network water supply to be susceptible to ability pollution problems, for this reason, the motive for the obligatory remedy for all floor water elements in Illinois. Mandatory treatment includes coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, and disinfection. The Alton Water Treatment Facility attracts floor water for a remedy from the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River is a concern with a spread of effects which includes agricultural, municipal, and industrial activities. Farm chemicals may be seasonally expanded in the river. Extensive monitoring and remedy make sure high quality water providers regardless of variations within the supply water. The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) has completed a supply water assessment for the Alton gadget and a duplicate is to be had upon request by calling Sarah Boyd, Water Quality Supervisor at 618-874-2408. To view a summary version of the completed Source Water Assessments, including Importance of Source Water; Susceptibility to Contamination Determination; and documentation/recommendation of Source Water Protection Efforts, you could get entry to the Illinois EPA internet site at http://www.Epa.Nation.Il.Us/cgi-bin/wp/switch-truth-sheets.Pl. Environmental Stewardship Water is one of the earth’s most valuable natural assets. Protecting the surroundings allows making sure ok water supply for generations. Our efforts include scholar training, network occasions, environmental partnerships, and internal initiatives. Student Education: Illinois American Water reaches hundreds of college students every 12 months via educational efforts. Our water nice crew visits neighborhood colleges to demonstrate the water treatment technique. Our Mobile Education Center (MEC), an 18-foot studying middle, gives fingers-on water checking out and fun lesson plans. We partner with Illinois leaders on Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) training efforts. Students participate in annual community events like the Clean Water Celebration held in Peoria and the Water Festival in Godfrey. Community Events: We take part in the “It’s Our River Day” celebrations every September throughout the country. These occasions promote schooling, endeavor, and conservation within Illinois watersheds. Illinois American Water employees volunteer on the Two Rivers Family Fishing Fair in Grafton. We additionally contribute to river cleanup efforts with the Illinois River Sweep, Vermillion River Clean Up, Living Lands and Waters-Great Mississippi River Clean Up, and greater. Environmental Partnerships: As part of our Environmental Grant Program over $195,000 has been offered to over fifty-one Illinois water source safety initiatives due to the fact 2009. In 2017, we supplied over $20,000 for seven environmental projects centered on the improvement, healing, and protection of water resources in our groups. We are persevering with our multi-yr settlement with Great Rivers Land Trust to lessen sedimentation of the Piasa Creek and Mississippi River. The agreement has been highlighted as a version with the aid of the USEPA. Our Champaign County team partners at the Mahomet Aquifer Consortium to shield our precious resources. Pharmaceutical Disposal Programs: Illinois American Water has collaborated with communities to implement over 35 pharmaceutical disposal applications across the nation. These efforts have led to the prevention of flushing medications and the right disposal of loads of heaps pounds of undesirable medicinal drugs. To examine greater or to discover a disposal region close to you, please visit www.Illinoisamwater.Com underneath Water Quality. Internal Initiatives: On a day by day basis, our centers utilize technology which includes variable frequency cars and movement sensor lights to make sure green strength use. Recycling programs at corporation centers additionally help to lessen waste and defend the 3 environments. Illinois American Water consists of local and prairie plantings on corporation belongings on every occasion feasible to reduce water use and mowing prices. The agency’s water treatment plant in Champaign County earned the first LEED® certification for a water remedy facility in Illinois. LEED is the kingdom’s main program for the layout, construction, and operation of excessive- overall performance inexperienced homes. Besides, an improve at the water treatment plant in Peoria consists of the incorporation of ultraviolet (UV) technology to decorate water satisfactorily. Illinois American Water’s Pontiac and Streator Districts established ultrasonic units to efficaciously manipulate algae and reduce the use of remedy chemical substances. Illinois American Water also carried out solar electricity in the Peoria and Interurban (Metro East) Districts, reducing power prices and reaping rewards our clients..

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