Westfield Water Department

The Westfield Department of General public Works Water Department is committed to providing safe drinking water that stands up to all state and federal requirements. To ensure that your plain tap water is safe to drink, the environmentally friendly Protection Agency (EPA) and the Massachusetts Division of Environmental Safety (DEP) prescribe rules that limit the amounts of certain pollutants in water given by public drinking water devices. We treat and test all of our drinking water following this ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY and DEP rules. Food and Drug Administration regulations, as well as the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, establish limitations for contaminants in bottled water that must supply the same level of safety for public health. This kind of water quality statement is intended to share with you ways well we are performing in meeting responsibility. EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION Water, including bottled water, might reasonably be expected to contain at least small amounts of a few contaminations. The presence of pollutants does not necessarily show that water positions a health risk. Sources of drinking water (both tap water and bottled water) include streams, lakes, streams, fish ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As drinking water travels over the surface area of the land or perhaps through the ground, this dissolves naturally occurring nutrients and, in some cases, radioactive material, and can get substances resulting from the existence of animals or coming from human activity. SOURCE DRINKING WATER PROTECTION The Ma Department of Environmental Protection has finished a Source Drinking water Assessment for all Westfield Municipal drinking water resources. This report recognizes land uses inside water supply protection areas that may be potential causes of contamination. City groundwater sources were decided to be highly susceptible to contamination due to the lack of hydrogeologic barriers that may prevent contaminant immigration from activities around the land surface. The entire ranking of susceptibility to contamination intended for Westfield’s drinking water resources is high because of the presence of this kind of high threat property uses as car repair/body shops, an airport terminal, railroads, machine outlets, transportation corridors, and illegal dumping. Replications of this report are obtainable at the Department of Public Works, Drinking water Division office located at 28 Sackett Street. AVAILABILITY OF MONITORING DATA FOR NOT REGULATED CONTAMINANTS As needed by US (EPA) environmental protection agency, our water program has sampled for any series of unregulated pollutants. Unregulated contaminants will be those that don’t, however, have a water standard set up by EPA. The purpose of monitoring for these contaminants is always to help EPA determine whether the contaminants must have a public health safety standard. If you want to schedule an appointment with someone in the Drinking water Division about the results, please get in touch with Systems Engineer Heather Stayton at 413-572-6270 or by email 28 Sackett St, Westfield, MA 01085. WESTFIELD’S DRINKING WATER RESOURCES Drinking water for those coupled to the Westfield water circulation system comes from a variety of sources. The Granville Reservoir, a surface area water source situated in the Town of Granville, Massachusetts, contributed around 50% of the City’s drinking water in 2017. All water out of this source is cured and filtered in our treatment facility found in Southwick, Massachusetts. The town also has eight (8) groundwater wells that are located off East Mountain Road (Wells 7 & eight offline), Holyoke Street (Well 1), Unification Street (Well 2), Northwest Road (Wells 5 & 6) and Shaker Street (Wells 3 & 4). Wells several and 8 had been offline in 2017 pending a new treatment system. The water coming from all sources is usually treated to reduce the corrosivity. All drinking water from City Water wells 3 and four are treated to get rid of the fungicide Ethylene DiBromide (EDB). Regularly water may be purchased from your City of Springfield drinking water system. This drinking water comes from their Cobble Mountain Reservoir surface area water source and it is treated at their particular West Parish Filtration system facility in Westfield. INTERCONNECTIONS TO ADDITIONAL WATER SYSTEMS The Westfield water strategy is interconnected to the City of Springfield water program at three (3) locations: one in Southwick Road and two (2) contacts on Shaker Street. One connection upon Shaker Road is utilized to pump water straight from the Springfield drinking water system to Westfield’s. The other two (2) connections are just activated on low-pressure conditions found in Westfield’s system. WEAKNESSES Some people may be weaker to contaminants in drinking water than the basic population. Immunocompromised individuals such as those with malignancy undergoing chemotherapy, individuals who have undergone body organ transplants, people with HIV/AIDS or other defense mechanisms disorders, some seniors, and infants could be particularly at risk coming from infections. These people ought to seek advice from their physicians. EPA/CDC guidelines upon appropriate means to reduce the risk of infection simply by cryptosporidium and other microbes contaminants are available from your Safe Drinking Water Hotline (800-426-4791). PROTECT YOUR WATER Improperly managed home hazardous waste, solid waste systems, lawn treatment, and pet waste materials can all lead to groundwater contamination. You can help protect the drinking water quality simply by ? Having your solid waste tank pumped every single two years, ? By no means dumping hazardous chemicals down the sewer or perhaps storm drains, ? Correctly disposing of pet waste materials, and ? Making use of pesticides and fertilizers minimally and according to manufacturer’s instructions. Pollutants that may be present in resource water before treatment include: Microbial pollutants: such as viruses and bacteria, which may originate from septic systems, farming livestock operations and wildlife. Inorganic pollutants: such as salts and metals, which can be natural or result from city stormwater runoff, commercial or domestic sewage discharges, or farming. Pesticides and herbicides: which might come from a variety of places such as agricultural and residential uses. Radioactive contaminants: which may be natural. Organic chemical pollutants: including synthetic and volatile organic chemical substances, which are by-products of business processes and petroleum production and can likewise come from gas stations, city stormwater runoff, and septic systems. In case you are interested in knowing even more about the Westfield water supply system as well as the Westfield Department of Public Works, Drinking water Division, please contact our office in 572-6270 or check out our web page in www.cityofwestfield.org..

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