Woodward

We are yet again thrilled to provide this yr’s Annual Water Quality Report. This report is designed to tell our clients of all water checking out outcomes among January 1 and December 31, 2017. Our steady aim is to offer a secure and dependable supply of consuming water that meets all country and federal requirements. We always try to enhance water remedy strategies and shield our water resources. We are devoted to ensuring the high-quality of your consuming water. Is my water safe? Last 12 months, as in years beyond, your faucet water met all U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and nation ingesting water fitness standards. Our supply water is groundwater drawn from two nicely fields. The North properly field, placed five miles north of the city, produces from the North Canadian River Aquifer and has 26 wells. The Southwest nicely discipline, positioned 5 miles southwest of metropolis, produces from the Ogallala Aquifer and has 39 wells. There is a complete of sixty-five wells that deliver Woodward with drinking water. Woodward is required to check for bacteriological and other contaminants that may be present inside the ingesting water. All measured values have been in the required ranges. There had been no suggested violations. Do I want to take unique precautions? Some people may be greater susceptible to contaminants in drinking water than the general populace. Immunocompromised individuals including folks with most cancers present process chemotherapy, humans who've undergone organ transplants, people with HIV/AIDS or different immune system disorders, some aged, and babies can be specifically at chance from infections. These humans must search for advice approximately consuming water from their health care providers. EPA/CDC suggestions on appropriate means to reduce the danger of contamination by using Cryptosporidium and different microbial contaminants are available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline (800-426-4791). Why are there contaminants in my ingesting water? Drinking water, along with bottled water, can also reasonably be expected to incorporate small quantities of a few contaminants. The presence of contaminants does no longer necessarily suggest that water poses a health threat. The resources of ingesting water consist of rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As water travels over the surface of land or thru the ground, it dissolves naturally occurring minerals and, in some cases, radioactive cloth, and can choose up contaminants on account of animals or human activity: Contaminants that can be present in supply water include: · Microbial contaminants, together with viruses and · micro organism, which can come from sewage treatment vegetation, septic structures, agricultural cattle operations, and natural world; · Inorganic contaminants, along with salts and metals, which can be clearly happening or end result from city storm water runoff, commercial, or domestic wastewater discharges, oil and gas manufacturing, mining, or farming; · Pesticides and herbicides, which may also come from a diffusion of resources together with agriculture, city typhoon water runoff, and home makes use of; · Organic Chemical Contaminants, including artificial and volatile natural chemicals, that are by-merchandise of industrial strategies and petroleum manufacturing, and can also come from gasoline stations, urban typhoon water runoff, and septic systems; · Radioactive contaminants, which can be evidently going on or be the end result of oil and gas production and mining activities..

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