Warren County Water District

WHERE DOES MY WATER COME FROM? Warren County Water District purchases the water brought to its clients from Bowling Green Municipal Utilities (BGMU). BGMU uses the Big Barren River, a floor water supply, as its supply of raw water. The Big Barren River flows out of Barren River Reservoir, a flood manage lake designed to assist prevent flooding in the populated regions west of Allen and Barren Counties. Drakes Creek joins Big Barren River about three miles above BGMU’s uncooked water intake. Drakes Creek is fed through Trammel Creek and flows north out of Simpson County, Kentucky. These 3-floor water our bodies are the resources of water that can be handled via BGMU. The Safe Drinking Water Act, amended in 1996, calls for Community Public Water Systems to put together a source water evaluation report. This file consists of a Source Water Assessment Plan (SWAP) that summarizes our susceptibility to contamination. Analysis indicates that BGMU’s system susceptibility to infection is generally mild. Areas of situation include potential contaminant sources along with bridges, underground storage tanks, an inactive landfill, oil and gas wells, a KPDES accredited discharger, and agricultural chemical use inside the regions close to and surrounding the raw water consumption. The final supply water assessment plan with whole facts on BGMU’s system susceptibility to capacity assets of infection is to be had for evaluation at our workplace or the Barren River Area Development District Office placed at 177 Graham Avenue in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Our goal is to offer the fine water and customer service to Warren County citizens. Our clients are our pinnacle precedence and an important part of our normal efforts. We constantly search for approaches to live concerned in our network and to expand approaches to teach customers on water high-quality. Our internet site, warrenwater.Com, affords customers get right of entry to water high-quality facts and records about their water application. Also, fashionable brochures, Consumer Confidence Reports (CCRs), and various other Warren Water guides are available for customer support and educational purposes. WATER QUALITY Delivering Quality and Commitment in Every Drop! Warren Water always plays several assessments to make certain your consuming water is secure. Warren Water tests the purity of the water over 1,560,000 times a year to make certain the protection of your consuming water. In 2017, the water become tested for over one hundred regulated contaminants and met or surpassed all state and federal first-rate standards. WHY ARE THERE CONTAMINANTS IN MY WATER? Drinking water, which includes bottled water, may additionally reasonably be expected to incorporate as minimum small quantities of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does now not always indicate that water poses a fitness risk. More facts approximately contaminants and potential fitness results may be acquired via calling the Environmental Protection Agency’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 800- 426-4791. The sources of consuming water, each faucet and bottled water, include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs and wells. As water travels over the surface of the land or through the ground, it dissolves occurring minerals and, in some cases, radioactive fabric, and might choose up materials because of the presence of animals or from human activity. To make sure that faucet water is safe to drink, U.S. EPA prescribes guidelines that restrict the number of positive contaminants in water furnished by public water structures. U.S. FDA policies establish limits for contaminants in bottled water that shall offer equal safety for public health. SPECIAL HEALTH INFORMATION If present, elevated levels of lead can cause extreme fitness issues, especially for pregnant ladies and younger children. Lead in ingesting water is normally from materials and components associated with provider strains and domestic plumbing. Warren Water is accountable for presenting high best-consuming water, but cannot manage the kind of substances used in plumbing additives. When your water has been sitting for numerous hours, you could minimize the potential for lead publicity by flushing your faucet for 30 seconds to 2 mins earlier than using water for drinking or cooking. If you're involved about lead on your water, you may desire to have your water tested. Information on lead in consuming water, checking out methods, and steps you could take to decrease publicity is to be had from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline or at http://www.Epa.Gov/safewater/lead. Some humans can be greater at risk of contaminants in ingesting water than the overall populace. Immunocompromised people including individuals with most cancers present process chemotherapy, people who have passed through organ transplants, people with HIV/AIDS or other immune machine disorders, a few elderly, and toddlers can be specifically at risk from infections. These people must are searching for advice approximately consuming water from their fitness care providers. EPA/CDC suggestions on a suitable ways to lessen the hazard of infection by Cryptosporidium and other microbial contaminants are available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline 800-426-4791. New Water Meter Reading Technology Warren Water owns and maintains approximately 29,000 water meters. Each meter is a vital part of Warren Water’s distribution machine, liable for measuring each clients’ real water use for billing functions. Warren Water reads every water meter as soon as consistent with the month. The manner is exertions intensive and time eating. The meter reader cautiously gets rid of the meter field lid, lifting the protective cap at the water meter to reveal the face of the meter, and manually enters the information into a hand-held electronic statistics logger. Water consumption statistics from the tool are then uploaded into our billing gadget and posted to each customer account. While this method has served Warren Water well for decades, we will be modernizing by automating meter reads in Warren County. Warren Water has been learning and making plans backstage for numerous years to launch an Automated Meter Reading (AMR) technology if you want to improve service in each city and rural regions of our device. The assignment might be phased in over five years starting Fall 2018. AMR meters will enable Warren Water meter readers to study meters remotely, properly, and correctly via wi-fi indicators. The meters are secure, precise, and adept at shooting the identical records collected from the manually read meters, but in a quicker and extra greenway. This system will provide greater statistics to assist clients in identifying leaks. Advanced acoustical leak sensors will also be strategically positioned to assist Warren Water in identifying leaks in fundamental traces and offerings earlier than they become predominant interruptions. AMR generation offers more than one benefit to customers, Warren Water, and the environment, consisting of: • Eliminating guide, exertions intensive meter studying. • Providing more correct statistics, useful for detecting water loss and leaks within the system to bringing about water and price financial savings for customers. • It requires much less preservation. • Ability to come across backflow (opposite drift) and non-stop leaks in a customer’s water carrier. • Securely transmit records remotely to information collection units inside the vehicle/office. • Increases day by day meter examines the capability of a reader. • Reduce pollutants from motors pushed through meter readers. There could be no additional value for clients to put in the new machine. The project has been within the planning degrees for numerous years and funds had been already budgeted for this undertaking. For questions or extra information concerning AMR, call 270-842-0052 or e-mail info@warrenwater.Com..

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