Manchester Water Department

Your Water Quality The Manchester Water Department is thrilled to offer our customers with this annual record on the ingesting water furnished to the residents of Manchester and our clients in quantities of Glastonbury, Vernon, and South Windsor. The facts contained in this brochure are compiled from statistics accrued throughout 2017 and explains wherein your water comes from, what checks were achieved to make sure the protection of your water and wherein you may get greater statistics approximately your water deliver. We wish you may discover this booklet each thrilling and useful. We want to hold you informed approximately the first-rate of your ingesting water. 2017 Water Quality Report M a n c h e s t e r Wa t e r D e p a r t m e n tone hundred twenty-five Spring Street PWS ID: CT0770021 Manchester, Connecticut Sources of Drinking Water Manchester’s water deliver includes each surface water from reservoirs and groundwater from wells. There are seven-floor water reservoirs and ten energetic wells. Globe Hollow, Porter, Lydall #1 and #2 and Howard reservoirs are placed in Manchester; Risley reservoir is placed in Vernon and Buckingham reservoir is positioned in Glastonbury. The reservoirs supply most people of water to our clients. The groundwater assets increase the surface water supply and are produced from ten wells which are positioned for the duration of Manchester on New State Road, Love Lane, Parker Street, Progress Drive, Charter Oak Street, and Fern Street. The water from the reservoirs is piped to the water remedy plant on Spring Street, where the water is processed before it's miles despatched into the water distribution machine. The treatment manner is made from ozonation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration to cast off impurities and disinfection to kill microbes that may reason illness. In 2011 an ozonation device was added to enhance flavor and odor and to provide a further barrier of protection towards waterborne disorder wearing organisms. Lime is added to elevate the pH and zinc phosphate is introduced to save you corrosion of plumbing. The CT Department of Health requires that fluoride be delivered to help prevent tooth decay. Since groundwater materials are certainly purified as they filter through the soil, little additional treatment is required. Treatment of the groundwater elements includes disinfection, fluoridation and corrosion manage. The Parker Street and New State Road Wells are also dealt with to remove low degrees of volatile natural compounds. The Water Distribution System Drinking water flows to your home through a two hundred and 57-mile network of water mains, 4 booster pumping stations, and ten distribution device storage tanks. Because of this interconnected system, water from more than one source may be introduced to a few neighborhoods. The source of water depends upon your place in the distribution gadget and the time of 12 months. Many of our customers revel in a seasonal trade in the water they receive due to the way we function our water delivery. To find out the supply of your water please confer with the maps on the following page. The water department uses each floor and groundwater in the summer season to meet extended water calls for. During the winter months, the usage of groundwater is reduced and the primary source is floor water. The maps suggest the exchange in these sources from winter to the summer season. The Water Department produced a complete of 1.Sixty four billion gallons of water in 2017 or about 4.Forty nine million gallons in keeping with day. On June 12, 2017, the department provided 6.05 million gallons of water which changed into the very best single production day of the yr. Overall, fifty-two percent of the entire water produced became supplied from reservoirs and the remaining 48 percentage become supplied via groundwater resources. Source Water Assessment Program A supply evaluation of the diverse water substances utilized by the Manchester Water Department changed into finished with the aid of the Connecticut Department of Public Health, Drinking Water Division. The evaluation reports are supposed to offer expertise of the potential danger of infection based totally upon precise threat elements for surface and groundwater sources. Manchester’s ordinary susceptibility to ability assets of infection turned into taken into consideration to below for its floor water supplies due to the fact extra than fifty percent of the watershed is owned with the aid of the Town and is preserved as open space. The common susceptibility to potential sources of contamination for the groundwater elements turned into considered to be excessive due to the fact maximum land around the components isn't always owned by using the Town. To manage this threat the Town has adopted the regulations described beneath that are designed to shield the groundwater substances. The Aquifer Protection Program, established via the State of Connecticut is used to identify critical water supply aquifers and to defend them from pollution by way of dealing with land use. Protection requires coordinated responsibilities shared by using the nation, municipality and water businesses to ensure a secure and abundant supply of public consuming water for present and destiny generations. These regulations can be viewed at the Town’s website @ http://www.Townofmanchester.Org/making plans/AquiferProtectionAgency.Cfm..

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