Town of Payson

We are pleased to offer this yr’s Annual Water Quality Report (Consumer Confidence Report) as required by the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). This file is designed to offer details about in which your water comes from, what it includes, and the way it compares to requirements set with the aid of regulatory groups. This file is an image of closing 12 months' water first-rate. We are devoted to offering you with information because knowledgeable clients are our fine allies. The Town of Payson Water Department (Public Water System AZ04-04032) is a public water software that resources ingesting water to approximately 17,000 customers within a 16 rectangular mile vicinity. The modern water gadget includes forty-one active manufacturing groundwater wells that draw water from an aquifer consisting of a series of complicated random cracks and fractures in the granite rock underneath the town. The water distribution device has eight.6 million gallons garage capability, 9 booster pumping stations, 1 water remediation facility and greater than 190 miles of pipe traces. A team of workers of nineteen complete-time employees affords an expansion of offerings for our customers. Beginning in the fall/wintry weather of 2018, the Town of Payson will entire the C.C. Cragin Reservoir project a good way to extra than double the common quantity of water delivers available to the Town of Payson. This undertaking connects the Town of Payson to C.C. Cragin Reservoir on a pinnacle of the Mogollon Rim. UNDERSTANDING WATER QUALITY RESULTS from The resources of drinking water (each tap and bottled water) encompass rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs and wells. As water travels over the surface of the land or via the floor, it dissolves evidently-taking place minerals, and in a few cases, radioactive cloth, and might pick up materials as a result of the presence of animals or from human interest. To ensure that tap water is safe to drink, EPA prescribes policies which restrict the number of contaminants in water provided employing public water systems. The Water Quality Table on Page 6 lists all of the drinking water contaminants that we detected at some stage in the calendar yr of this record. Although many more contaminants have been tested, most effective the one's materials listed under have been discovered in your water. All sources of drinking water include a few occurring contaminants. At low stages, these materials are generally not harmful in our ingesting water. Removing all contaminants would be extraordinarily pricey, and in most instances, would now not offer improved safety of public fitness. A few naturally taking place minerals may additionally really enhance the flavor of ingesting water and feature nutritional price at low degrees. Results listed inside the table are from 2016 -2017, which presents the latest records acquired. The EPA and ADEQ require us to monitor for certain contaminants much less than once in step with yr due to the fact the concentrations of those contaminants do not range drastically from 12 months to year, or the gadget is not taken into consideration at risk of this form of contamination. As such, a few of our information, though consultant, can be multiple year vintage. In this desk, you may discover terms and abbreviations that won't be familiar to you. To assist you better apprehend those terms, we've got furnished the definitions below the table. The pattern results are organized into major tables: 1) The Primary Drinking Water Standards, which can be limits installed for regulated materials (either a Maximum Contaminant Level or Action Level), and 2) The Secondary Drinking Water Standards, which contain unregulated materials that public water systems are required to reveal, but that haven't any set up regulatory limits. On August 05, 2003, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) workforce published a Source Assessment report that offers unique facts at the Town of Payson’s drinking water assets and the vulnerability of those resources to infection. Based on presently to be had information, ADEQ determined that our source water is prone to viable destiny contamination. The following list is shown as examples of ability resources of contamination. For further records or to request a replica of the very last source water evaluation document, contact the Payson Water Department at (928) 472-5102WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP? It’s a whole lot less complicated and some distance much less expensive to prevent a water pollution hassle than it's miles to smooth it up. You can help guard the best of our consuming water via following these easy tips: 1) Use herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers sparingly. 2) Unused drugs and pharmaceutical/prescription products must be disposed of on the police department drop container in the foyer, (drugs can be incinerated). 3) Recycle old car batteries, used motor oil, and different fluids. Four) Take dangerous household merchandise, along with solvents, paints, and chemicals to a proper disposal center. There could be a Free Electronic & Household Hazardous Waste Recycling Event on Saturday, May 12th, 2018, from 8 am to noon, at The Home Depot For greater facts on recycling, go to http://www.Paysonaz.Gov/, click on RECYCLING LOCATIONS beneath QUICK LINKS,(left column). FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR DRINKING WATER The Town of Payson is devoted to supplying a safe and enough deliver of ingesting water for our community each now and inside the destiny. If you have got any questions on your ingesting water, please call Dan Utz, Water Quality Specialist dutz@paysonaz.Gov (928) 472-5102. Town of Payson’s Web Site www.Paysonaz.Gov This record is to be had online at http://www.Paysonaz.Gov/wqr-17.Pdf Environmental Protection Agency’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline (800) 426-4791 www.Epa.Gov/drink/ Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (602)771-4617 http://azdeq.Gov/applications/water-satisfactory-applications/safe-consuming-water The Town Council can also make selections that have an effect on the exceptional of our water, and you are invited to participate. Meeting notices are published in the local newspaper and posted at Town Hall (303 North Beeline Highway). A paper model of this file is available at the Town of Payson Water Department, 303 N. Beeline Highway, Bldg. A, or the Payson Public Library..

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