PCUD-Pasco County Regional Public Water System

We are thrilled to offer to you our 2017 Annual Water Quality Report. This record is designed to tell you about the excellent water and services we deliver to you each day. Our regular purpose is to provide you with a secure and reliable deliver of drinking water. As such, we want you to apprehend the efforts we make to continually improve the water treatment technique and guard our water sources. We are dedicated to ensuring the best of your water. Pasco County Utilities routinely video display units for contaminants in your ingesting water in keeping with Federal and State laws, rules, and policies. Except where indicated otherwise, this record is based totally on the results of our tracking for the duration of January 1 to December 31, 2017. Data received before January 1, 2017, and offered in this file are from the latest checking out achieved according to to the legal guidelines, regulations, and guidelines. Because the concentrations of certain contaminants are not predicted to vary notably from 12 months to yr, a number of our statistics; e.G. For organic contaminants, though representative, may be multiple year vintage. The sources of ingesting water (each tap water and bottled water) consist of rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As water travels over the floor of the land or via the ground, it dissolves happening minerals and, in some instances, radioactive fabric, and may choose up substances attributable to the presence of animals or from human activity. Contaminants that may be present in supply water include (A) Microbial contaminants, inclusive of viruses and bacteria, which may additionally come from sewage treatment plants, septic systems, agricultural farm animals operations, and wildlife. (B) Inorganic contaminants, along with salts and metals, which may be happening or result from city typhoon water runoff, commercial or domestic wastewater discharges, oil and fuel manufacturing, mining, or farming. (C) Pesticides and herbicides, which may additionally come from a selection of resources which includes agriculture, urban stormwater runoff, and home uses. (D) Organic chemical contaminants, such as synthetic and unstable natural chemicals, which are by using-merchandise of industrial techniques and petroleum production, and can also come from gasoline stations, urban typhoon water runoff, and septic systems. (E) Radioactive contaminants, which may be happening or be the result of oil and fuel manufacturing and mining sports. Our water source for this region is groundwater from one deep nicely located inside Pasco County. This nicely draws from the Floridan Aquifer. Chlorine is delivered for disinfectant functions. In 2017, the Department of Environmental Protection completed a Source Water Assessment on our machine, and a search of the records resources indicated no capability resources infection for the properly. The assessment effects are available at the FDEP Source Water Assessment and Protection Program internet site at https://fldep.Dep.Country.Fl.Us/swapp/DisplayPWS.Asp?Pws_id=6512033&odate=01-OCT-17.Page 2 of 5 PWS – 651.2033 To ensure that tap water is secure to drink, the EPA prescribes policies which limit the number of sure contaminants in water supplied through public water systems. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules set up limits for contaminants in bottled water which must offer the same protection for public health. Some humans can be greater liable to contaminants in ingesting water than the overall population. Immunocompromised humans inclusive of individuals with cancer present process chemotherapy, individuals who've gone through organ transplants, people with HIV/AIDS or other immune system problems, some elderly, and infants can be especially at threat from infections. These people need to are seeking recommendation approximately consuming water from their health care carriers. EPA/CDC hints on a suitable approach to reduce the threat of infection by Cryptosporidium and different microbiological contaminants are available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791. Drinking water, such as bottled water, can also fairly be anticipated to incorporate at the least small quantities of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does not necessarily imply that the water poses a fitness hazard. More statistics about contaminants and capacity health outcomes may be received through calling the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791..

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