Scioto County Regional Water District #1

If present, elevated levels of business leaders can cause serious health conditions, especially for pregnant women and young children. Lead in drinking water is mostly from materials and components associated with services lines and residential home plumbing. Scioto State Regional Water Region #1 is responsible for rendering high-quality drinking water, nevertheless cannot control all of the materials used in plumbing related components. When your normal water has been sitting for some hours, you can lessen the potential for lead direct exposure by flushing the tap for half a minute to 2 mins before using normal water for drinking or perhaps cooking. If you are concerned with lead in your drinking water, you may wish to have the water tested. Information concerning lead in moving water, testing methods, and steps you can take to minimize direct exposure are available from the A safe drinking water supply Hotline at 800-426- 4791or at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/lead. Contaminant Monitoring The EPA requires frequent sampling to ensure moving water safety. All impurities required to be assessed in 2017 would not exceed any optimum contaminant levels established by the EPA. We were pleased to inform each of our customers that there were no violations found in 2017 and we already have an unconditioned certificate to operate our normal water system..

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