Ridgewood Water

We are thrilled to provide to you this 12 months' Annual Drinking Water Quality Report, that's designed to inform you about the first-rate of the water furnished on your premises. Our goal is to provide you with a safe, non-stop, and reliably delivery of ingesting water. We are dedicated to making sure the nice of your water and automatically screen and test the water for a host of parameters. The results of a number of this monitoring and trying out are provided in this record as required with the aid of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). Some of the languages in this file is prescribed employing the NJDEP and much of the facts are as a substitute technical. If you have got any questions about this file or Ridgewood Water, please touch us at 201-670-5520. Customer Participation We need our customers to be knowledgeable. Therefore, we strongly endorse attending League of Women Voter’s Water Forums and regularly scheduled Village Council conferences at 131 North Maple Avenue. Meetings are held on the second one Wednesday of each month at 8:00 p.M. Where Does My Water Come From? Ridgewood Water’s supply is more often than not groundwater from wells. We own and operate fifty-two deep wells which can be placed at some stage in the provider area inside the Borough of Glen Rock, the Borough of Midland Park, the Township of Wyckoff, and the Village of Ridgewood. We also purchase water from Suez Water and, during peak summertime needs, water from the Hawthorne Water Department. Tap or Bottled Water? The assets of drinking water (both tap water and bottled water) include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds reservoirs, springs, and wells. As water travels over the floor of the land or via the floor, it dissolves going on minerals and, in a few cases, radioactive cloth, and might select up materials resulting from the presence of animals or human pastime. Contaminants that can be found in supply water encompass: • Microbial contaminants, including viruses and microorganism, which might also come from sewage treatment plants, septic structures, agricultural cattle operations, and flora and fauna. • Inorganic contaminants, such as salts and metals, which can be naturally occurring or result from city stormwater runoff, commercial or home wastewater discharges, oil and gasoline projection, mining, or farming. • Pesticides and herbicides, which might also come from a diffusion of assets which include agriculture, urban stormwater runoff, and home make use of. • Organic chemical contaminants, inclusive of artificial and volatile natural chemical compounds, which might be byproducts of business procedures and petroleum products and also can come from fuel stations, city typhoon water runoff, and septic systems. • Radioactive contaminants which can be certainly going on or be the result of oil and gasoline manufacturing and mining sports. To make sure that faucet water is secure to drink, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) prescribe policies that limit the number of certain contaminants in water provided by way of public water systems. Food and Drug Administration rules (FDA) set up limits for contaminants in bottled water, which must provide comparable protection for public health. EPA/NJDEP guidelines are extra stringent than FDA policies. Drinking water, along with bottled water, may reasonably be expected to contain at least small amounts of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does not always indicate that the water poses a health threat. More data approximately contaminants and potential fitness outcomes may be obtained by using calling the EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 800-426-4791..

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