Winchester Municipal Utilities

The Winchester Municipal Utilities (WMU), your drinking water supplier, works around the clock to supply exceptional water, sewage, and solid waste materials utility services to each consumer. This Water Quality Report offers you information regarding your water. For additional information, contact WMU at 744- 5434. BACKGROUND INFORMATION REGARDING WMU The Winchester Municipal Utilities (WMU) is pleased to offer its Drinking Water Top quality Report for 2018. The report is always to inform you about the standard of your drinking water and it is based on monitoring and test results intended for the year January one particular through December thirty-one, 2017. Water treatment is a complex and highly regulated activity. WMU strives to continually improve the top quality of its water and many of the other power services provided for you, our customer. WMU’s raw (untreated) drinking water sources are the Kentucky River (Pool 10) and the Carroll Electronic. Ecton Reservoir, that is surface water resources. The Kentucky Water supplied 85%, as well as the Carroll E. Ecton Reservoir, supplied 15% of the water cured in 2017. WMU treated 1, 638, 559, 000 gallons of water during 2017 from the Kentucky River and the Carroll E. Ecton Tank. The Kentucky Water is most vulnerable to contaminants from agricultural runoff, which may include insect sprays, nutrients and silt from croplands, and substances resulting from the existence of animals on meadowlands. The Carroll E. Ecton Tank is most vulnerable to city stormwater runoff, which may include large metals from made areas, nutrients, & nitrogen-laden organics (e. g., yard waste) coming from lawn care. Commercial and construction runoff in urban areas might include silts, synthetic chemical substances and metals. WMU’s overall susceptibility to contamination shall be defined as Moderate. Microbial pollutants, such as Total Coliform, Fecal Coliform, and E Coli are naturally present in the surroundings, and their presence is usually tested regularly. Inorganic contaminants, such as copper mineral, fluoride, nitrates, and nitrites are also potential sources of contamination. WMU has a very strict water sampling system and we take great pride in ongoing to ensure our general public has the purest water at all hours during. All water top quality standards are becoming met by the commitment of our staff with the assistance of Microbac Laboratories. A complete resource water assessment can be acquired or reviewed in WMU, 150 And. Main Street, Winchester, Kentucky. The water treatment plant has a ranked maximum treatment capability of 6. zero million gallons each day (MGD). WMU works its water treatment plant 24 hours each day, 365 days per year. The therapy process utilizes standard flocculation, sedimentation, high-rate filtration, and disinfection. WMU provides drinking water service to a customer foundation of 11, 802 direct customers and through water, people paid resale, to two, 473 customers from the East Clark Region Water District and 189 customers from the Kentucky American Drinking water Company. In total, WMU serves 14, 464 water customers in Clark County. Long term growth, along with increasing regulatory requirements demands that WMU address the admissible water supply to continue to supply high-quality drinking water for you, our customer. OVERVIEW OF 2017 DRINKING WATER QUALITY WMU regularly monitors for pollutants in your drinking water in accordance with Federal and State regulations. The next table provides the outcomes of our monitoring uses from January 1 through December 31, 2017. Important notes and explanatory definitions are supplied at the end of the desk. DETECTED CONTAMINANTS The information presented in this statement is from the latest testing done in compliance with administrative rules in 401 KAR Chapter 8. While authorized and given the green light by EPA, the State offers reduced monitoring requirements for certain contaminants to less often than once per year since the concentrations of these pollutants are not expected to differ significantly from year upon year. Some of the data with this table, though consultant, maybe more than one yr old. Unless otherwise mentioned, the report level is the highest detected. OTHER ASSESSMENTS WMU regularly assessments your drinking water intended for 77 other main standards, 16 supplementary standards, and other requirements for which results were found out to be within suitable levels. To make this kind of report easier to go through and understand, outcomes of those tests are certainly not reported here. LEAD If present raised levels of lead may cause serious health problems, specifically for pregnant women and young kids. Lead in water is primarily coming from materials and parts associated with service lines and home domestic plumbing. WMU is responsible for offering high-quality drinking water, yet cannot control the range of materials used in domestic plumbing components. When your drinking water has been sitting for many hours, you can reduce the potential for lead publicity by flushing the tap for half a minute to 2 moments before using drinking water for drinking and cooking. If you are worried about lead in your drinking water, you may wish to have the water tested. Information about lead in water, testing methods, and steps you can take to minimize publicity are available from the A safe drinking water supply Hotline or at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/lead. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) needs that every water program provides consumers with an annual consumer self-confidence or water top quality report as a result of the Safe Drinking Water Act Changes of 1996. The report is intended to supply consumers with info regarding the quality of their drinking water and to motivate actions by customers to protect drinking water materials. WMU is providing you with this statement so that you might be better educated about the quality of the drinking water..

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