Margate City Water Department

We are pleased to give you this yr’s Annual Drinking Water Quality Report. This document is designed to inform you about the satisfactory water and offerings we supply to you each day. Our constant aim is to provide you with a secure and reliable supply of ingesting water. We need you to understand the efforts we make to usually enhance the water remedy process and guard our water sources. We are dedicated to ensuring the quality of your water. We are thrilled to file that our ingesting water is safe and meets Federal and State requirements. If you have any questions about this report or concerning your water application, please touch Jim Dickerson of the Margate City Public Works Department at 822-5038. We want our valued clients to be knowledgeable about their water software. If you want to study more, please attend any of our regularly scheduled City Commission meetings. Meetings are held at City Hall (9001 Winchester Avenue) on the first and 0.33 Thursdays of each month at four:00 P.M. The Margate City Water Department routinely monitors for parts to your ingesting water in step with Federal and State legal guidelines. The desk on the again shows the consequences of our monitoring from January 1st to December 31st, 2017. The assets of ingesting water (each tap water and bottled water) include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As water travels over the floor of the land or thru the floor, it dissolves happening minerals and, in a few instances, radioactive material, and can pick out up materials attributable to the presence of animals or from human interest. Contaminants that may be present in source water include • Microbial contaminants, which include viruses and microorganism, which may also come from sewage treatment flowers, septic systems, agricultural livestock operations, and wildlife. • Inorganic contaminants, including salts and metals, which may be certainly going on or result from city stormwater runoff, business or domestic wastewater discharges, oil, and fuel production, mining, or farming. • Pesticides and herbicides, which may additionally come from an expansion of resources together with agriculture, city stormwater runoff, and home make use of. • Organic chemical contaminants, inclusive of synthetic and volatile natural chemical compounds, which are by way of-products of business methods and petroleum production, and can also come from gasoline stations, city stormwater runoff, and septic structures. • Radioactive contaminants, which can be occurring or be the result of oil and gasoline manufacturing and mining activities. To ensure that tap water is safe to drink, EPA prescribes rules which limit the number of certain contaminants in water provided by using public water structures. Food and Drug Administration regulations establish limits for contaminants in bottled water which must provide the identical protection for public health..

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