Pasco Water Department

We are pleased to present to you our 2017 Annual Water Quality Report. This document is designed to inform you about the excellent water and services we deliver to you every day. Our consistent goal is to offer you a safe and reliable delivery of consuming water. As such, we need you to apprehend the efforts we make to always enhance the water treatment process and guard our water sources. We are dedicated to making sure the exceptional of your water. Pasco County Utilities routinely monitors for contaminants in your ingesting water according to Federal and State legal guidelines, guidelines, and guidelines. Except wherein indicated otherwise, this file is based on the consequences of our monitoring for the duration of January 1 to December 31, 2017. Data obtained before January 1, 2017, and offered in this document are from the most recent trying out achieved following the laws, regulations, and rules. Because the concentrations of certain contaminants are not predicted to vary extensively from 12 months to year, some of our records; e.G. For natural contaminants, even though representative, can be a couple of year vintage. The sources of ingesting water (both tap water and bottled water) consist of rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As water travels over the surface of the land or through the floor, it dissolves occurring minerals and, in some cases, radioactive fabric, and can pick up substances because of the presence of animals or from human interest. Contaminants that can be found in source water consist of (A) Microbial contaminants, together with viruses and bacteria, which might also come from sewage treatment plants, septic systems, agricultural cattle operations, and wildlife. (B) Inorganic contaminants, along with salts and metals, which can be going on or result from city hurricane water runoff, business or home wastewater discharges, oil and gasoline production, mining, or farming. (C) Pesticides and herbicides, which may additionally come from a variety of sources which include agriculture, city stormwater runoff, and home uses. (D) Organic chemical contaminants, which include synthetic and volatile natural chemical substances, which are by way of-merchandise of industrial procedures and petroleum manufacturing, and also can come from fuel stations, city stormwater runoff, and septic systems. (E) Radioactive contaminants, which can be certainly going on or be the result of oil and gasoline manufacturing and mining sports. Our water supply for this area is groundwater from one deep well placed inside Pasco County. This well draws from the Floridan Aquifer. Chlorine is brought for disinfectant functions. In 2017, the Department of Environmental Protection finished a Source Water Assessment on our system, and a seek of the information sources indicated no ability assets contamination for the properly. The assessment consequences are to be had on the FDEP Source Water Assessment and Protection Program internet site at https://fldep.Dep.Kingdom.Fl.Us/swapp/DisplayPWS.Asp?Pws_id=6512033&odate=01-OCT-17..

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