West Daviess County Water District

We’re pleased to offer you this yr’s Annual Drinking Water Quality Report. This record is designed to inform you about the best water and services we deliver to you every day. Our steady purpose is to offer you a safe and reliable delivery of consuming water. We want you to apprehend the efforts we make to continually make certain the nice of your water. Your water does now not come from the Ohio River, however, instead it begins out with the aid of being drawn via Owensboro Municipal Utilities (OMU) from an underground aquifer located along the Ohio River. The water is certainly filtered to this aquifer as it passes down via layers of the earth. Once OMU attracts the water from the aquifer, it then aerates, softens, chlorinates, filters, and provides fluoride and polyphosphate to treat the groundwater to the applicable standards which represent the water you drink and use each day. We, in flip, pump the water from OMU and distribute it to you; our valued purchaser. We’re pleased to report that your drinking water is secure and meets Federal and State requirements. This report will show our water quality and what it means. Drinking water, together with bottled water, can also fairly be predicted to include as minimum small quantities of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does now not necessarily indicate that water poses a health threat. More statistics approximately contaminants and capacity health effects can be received through calling the Environmental Protection Agency’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline (800-426-4791). The resources of drinking water (each 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 ground, it dissolves clearly-happening minerals and, in some instances, radioactive fabric, and might choose up materials resulting from the presence of animals or human pastime. Contaminants that may be present in supply water encompass: A) Microbial contaminants, such as viruses and bacteria, that can come from sewage remedy vegetation, septic structures, agricultural farm animals operations, and flora and fauna. B) Inorganic contaminants, consisting of salts and metals, that can be clearly-occurring or result from city stormwater runoff, commercial or domestic wastewater discharges, oil and gas manufacturing, mining, or farming. C) Pesticides and herbicides, which may also come from a ramification of assets including agriculture, city stormwater runoff, and residential uses. D) Organic chemical contaminants, including synthetic and volatile natural chemical substances, that are with the aid of products of commercial methods and petroleum production, and can also come from fuel stations, urban stormwater runoff, and septic systems. E) Radioactive contaminants, which may be evidently- going on or be the result of oil and gasoline production and mining activities. To make certain that faucet water is safe to drink, U.S. EPA prescribes regulations that restrict the number of sure contaminants in water provided with the aid of public water systems. FDA regulations establish limits for contaminants in bottled water that shall provide the identical protection for public health. Some human beings may be greater at risk of contaminants in ingesting water than the general population. Immunocompromised people which include individuals with cancer present process chemotherapy, humans who have gone through organ transplants, human beings with HIV/AIDS or other immune gadget issues, some elderly, and infants can be particularly at hazard from infections. These people need to are seeking recommendations approximately drinking water from their health care vendors. EPA/CDC suggestions on appropriate methods to reduce the danger of infection by way of cryptosporidium and different microbiological contaminants are to be had from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline (800-426-4791). If you want to research extra approximately our water device, you may attain a Source Water Assessment from the Green River Area Development District at 3860 U. S. Highway 60 West. The Source Water Assessment rated the water supply’s susceptibility to capacity resources of infection in the wellhead protection area to be slight. There are a complete of two,024 ability sources of infection with the following susceptibility scores: 263 high, 1,746 medium, and 15 low. The resources of excessive capacity impact encompass above ground garage tanks, underground garage tanks, automotive related facilities, laundry centers, petroleum suppliers, and business land use. Some mild capacity sources of infection include expert places of work, food carrier centers, hair care centers, medical or veterinary centers, a printer, and a cemetery. This is a summary of the susceptibility analysis. The complete Susceptibility Analysis Report is also to be had at Owensboro Municipal Utilities and the Kentucky Division of Water.This document will no longer be sent to character clients. It may be to be had at our office upon request. We are required to offer every customer of our water gets admission to this file. Therefore, if you aren't the cease consumer of our water, together with the landlord, commercial enterprise proprietor, or anyone else who receives the billing but is not the water customer, we ask that this record be distributed or published for viewing to all cease customers for his or her records functions. Please come by or name the District workplace in case you need greater copies. If you've got any questions about this file or concerning your water software, please contact Keith Krampe, Office Manager, on the District office at (270) 685-5594 any time Monday thru Friday from eight:00 AM - five:00 PM. We want our valued customers to be informed about their water application. If you need to analyze extra, please attend any of our often scheduled Public Board meetings. They are hung on the 0.33 Tuesday of each month at nine:00 AM on the District workplace at 3400 Bittel Rd. Please name the workplace to confirm a definite date for any of our upcoming meetings. Thank you on your time.

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