Vernon Hills

Pond County Public Performs is committed to rendering safe water to the customers, and we happen to be strong supporters in the Safe Drinking Water Act. The act requires that every water utilities post an annual Consumer Assurance Report (CCR) talking about the sources, treatment and chemical research of each water syndication system. If you would like a paper copy of the water report, make sure you call to request one. For those who have questions about your Drinking water Quality Report twenty-four hours a day contact Austin McFarlane at 847-377-7500.

WHERE DOES OUR WATER COME FROM? In standard, the sources of drinking water (both tap water and bottled water) encompass rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs and wells. As water travels over the floor of the land or via the ground, it dissolves naturally taking place minerals and may select up materials on account of the presence of animals or from human activities. Contaminants that may be present in supply water consist of: microbial contaminants, inorganic contaminants, pesticides and herbicides, organic chemical contaminants, and radioactive contaminants. In order to ensure that tap water is secure to drink, the State and the EPA prescribe guidelines which restriction the amount of certain contaminants in water provided by way of public water structures. Similarly for bottled water, State Health Department and FDA policies set up limits to provide the same protection for public health. Our water supply is groundwater from two aquifers. In 2018, 41) 6% of our water turned into drawn from wells located close to the Mohawk River within the Town of Niskayuna. Fifty eight.Four% changed into drawn from the City of Schenectady wells positioned in the Town of Rotterdam near the Mohawk River. The water is purified naturally as it percolates through layers of soil, clay, rock and sand. When the “uncooked water” is pumped from the aquifer, it's far similarly dealt with and disinfected previous to distribution. Treatment on the Niskayuna Water Plant includes gas chlorination to oxidize iron and manganese and to disinfect the water, strain sand filtration to put off iron and manganese, fluoridation at low stages to protect teeth, and injection of polyorthophosphate to manipulate corrosion. The City’s treatment method is nearly identical with one exception; there is no pressure sand filtration because their uncooked water has very little iron and manganese. FACTS AND FIGURES Our water gadget serves approximately 21,781 people via eight,one hundred carrier connections. There areassets of water supplying Niskayuna’s entire water transmission and distribution system and numerous blocks placed within the City of Schenectady. Our “common every day call for” became 2,616,000 gallons in line with day. Our highest single day was 5,one hundred fifty five,000 gallons. All of the connections inside Niskayuna are metered, thirteen of the City connections are metered and the closing 359 of the City connections are not metered. The overall water withdrawn from each sources in 2018 to service this distribution system become 955,064,000 gallons; of that quantity changed into 804,511,385 gallons changed into measured through purchaser meters in Niskayuna, which amounts to 81% of the overall. The metered and envisioned gallons of water used by City customers became fifty three,657,916 gallons which become about five.6% of the entire. The final a hundred and fifty,552,615 gallons, about thirteen% become “lost water”. In 2018, the residential water fee in line with 1,000 gallons of water was $2.50. The business price changed into $four.04. ARE THERE CONTAMINANTS IN OUR DRINKING WATER? In accordance with State rules, we robotically take a look at your drinking water for severa capacity contaminants together with: inorganic compounds, radiological contaminants, lead and copper, nitrate, volatile organic compounds, haloacetic acids, trihalomethanes and synthetic organic compounds. In addition, we check 20 samples in keeping with month for coliform micro organism. The enclosed table depicts which compounds were detected to your consuming water. The State lets in us to check for a few contaminants much less than once in step with yr due to the fact the concentrations of these contaminants typically trade little from year to 12 months. Some of the statistics, though consultant, is multiple 12 months old. All ingesting water, consisting of bottled ingesting water, can also incorporate small amounts of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does not necessarily indicate a fitness threat. More records about contaminants and potential health results can be acquired by using calling the EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline (800-426-4791) or the Schenectady County Health Department at (518) 386-2818. WHAT DOES THIS INFORMATION MEAN? As you can see by way of the table on web page 4, our gadget had no violations. We have found out via our tracking and checking out that some contaminants were detected; however, those compounds have been detected below New York State necessities. MCL’s are set at very stringent levels. To understand the possible health outcomes defined for many regulated contaminants, a person might must drink 2 liters of water every day on the MCL level for an entire life to have a one-in-a-million danger of having the defined fitness impact. As illustrated in the desk, our monitoring and checking out detected some contaminants; all other contaminants have been below the maximum stages authorised with the aid of the State, known as the most contaminant ranges (MCL). Many of the check outcomes have been NON DETECTABLE. The type/institution (variety of contaminants in every group) tested for had been as follows: volatile organic compounds (52) +MTBE, artificial organic compounds (38), asbestos, color, scent and radiological chemicals (four). The inorganic contaminants examined for were: arsenic, cadmium, c.