York Water District

Welcome to the tenth Annual Water Quality Report of the York Water District (YWD). This file offers essential information regarding your drinking water, its high-quality and protection. At the York Water District, our priority is to provide you with secure dependable ingesting water every day. We take pride in offering our customers with the highest high-quality of provider, and this is part of that important aim. We are pleased to file that in the 2007 trying out length, your water from the YWD meets all State and Federal necessities. The pointers we observe are established utilizing the National Safe Drinking Water Act, which alongside the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), establish and put into effect minimum exceptional and safety standards for ingesting water. We ensure that your water is secure via normal tracking and checking out. All of our water samples are examined via The State of Maine Health and Environmental Testing Laboratory or other State licensed trying out laboratories. This document suggests a precis of the laboratory outcomes for materials that had been detected on your water. Responsibility for retaining water best resides with our workforce of certified Water Treatment Plant Operators certified using the Maine Department of Human Services. The Safe Drinking Water Act directs the State, in conjunction with the EPA, to establish and implement minimal ingesting water requirements. These standards set limits on certain organic, radioactive, natural and inorganic materials now and then discovered in consuming water. Two kinds of standards have been hooked up. Primary ingesting water standards set achievable ranges of drinking water exceptional to protect your fitness. Secondary consuming water standards offer recommendations regarding the flavor, odor, coloration and different aesthetic factors of your ingesting water which do now not present a health threat. All drinking water may additionally reasonably be anticipated to include as minimum trace amounts of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does now not necessarily imply that water poses a health threat.WHAT ARE THE FACTS ABOUT YOUR SYSTEM?The York Water District first started presenting the Town of York with water in 1896 as the York Shore Water Company. The sole supply of this water has continually been Chase’s Pond, a floor water supply positioned west of I-95 on Chase’s Pond Road in York. When the pond is complete it has an ability of almost 1 billion gallons, with a secure everyday yield of 2.05 million gallons. The Chase’s Pond Watershed covers an area of 2090 acres and the District currently owns 1840 acres or 88% of the whole watershed place. The York Water District operates and keeps a distribution device that includes over 80 miles of both years round and seasonal water mains. The system consists of 350 public and 70 private fireplace hydrants. In 2007 the Josiah Chase Filtration Plant produced 360,000,000 million gallons (MG) of water. That’s an average of 0.Ninety eight million gallons in keeping with the day (MGD). To make sure there's enough water to fulfill height needs as well as hearth protection utilization the District continues a 2 million gallon garage tank on York Heights and a three million gallon garage tank on Simpson Hill in Cape Neddick. The York Water District finished 2 distribution system interconnections on Route 1 with Kennebunk Kennebunkport and Wells Water District to the north and Kittery Water District to the south. Both interconnections require pumping stations to be set up. The Rte 1 North pumping station turned into finished in 2006 and positioned into service in 2007. Construction of the Rte 1 South Pumping Station started in 2007 and must be completed someday in 2008. These distribution machine interconnections provide an again up water supply in both paths in case of a water emergency in any of the three water districts carrier regions from Kennebunk to Kittery. The Josiah Chase Filtration Plant turned into a placed into provider in 1990 and become designed and operated to supply water that meets or exceeds all primary and secondary consuming water standards. The Treatment Plant is designed for a maximum of each day float of 4 million gallons (4MGD). The Treatment Plant is located at 273 Chase’s Pond Road in York throughout the road from the Chase’s Pond Dam. Raw water enters the Screen House after the dam and flows via gravity via a 30” ductile iron main to the Treatment Plant. Aluminum Sulfate (the primary coagulant) and Sodium Hydroxide (for pH adjustment) are delivered to the uncooked water to ensure proper coagulation and flocculation of the water before being despatched to the clarifiers and filters wherein the debris floating within the water may be removed. A polymer is also added to the remedy method once in a while in the cold iciness months to aid within the coagulation method. Filtration of the water is achieved the usage of 2 up-glide adsorption clarifiers and 4 conventional mixed media rapid sand filters. After the filtration procedure is whole the water enters a three hundred,000 gallon baffled Clearwell in which Sodium Hypochlorite is introduced to promote right disinfection through killing pathogenic organisms. Finished water is then pumped up from the Clearwell and into the distribution machine. All surface and ground waters include herbal natural compounds, that can react with chlorine added to the water to form disinfection byproducts (DBP). DBP’s are suspected of cancer-causing agents. To keep away from the chance of forming DBP’s, the York Water District provides Anhydrous Ammonia to the water as it's far withdrawn from the Clearwell and before it enters the distribution device. Anhydrous Ammonia reacts with the Sodium Hyp.

Why is Chlorine introduced to my drinking water? Chlorine is introduced to your water on your safety and is used as a disinfectant to make certain that dangerous organisms, which include micro organism and viruses, are destroyed in the treatment technique. Are there different ways to get rid of the Chlorine flavor or smell From my water? To do away with the taste of chlorine out of your water, try these guidelines: y Place water in a pitcher container in the refrigerator in a single day, uncovered. This will let the chlorine use up. Y Bring your water to a rolling boil for 5 mins and let it stand to cool. Y Add a slice of lemon or some drops of lemon juice in your glass of consuming water. Will my home remedy deviCe do away with Chlorine? Some home treatment gadgets can remove chlorine. Once chlorine is eliminated, the water need to be treated like any other beverage product and used as fast as viable. We advise that you follow the manufacturer’s commands for maintaining the device to make certain water satisfactory. What is the white or Colored deposit on my dishes or FauCets? In most instances, the deposits or sediments left in the back of after water evaporates are calcium carbonate. The quantity of calcium inside the water is called hardness. Cleaning with white vinegar can assist to dissolve and eliminate deposits. Using a business conditioner, liquid detergents or the “air-dry” choice in dishwashers can assist to lower the calcium carbonate discovered on dishes. Are the deposits or difficult water harmFul? Hardness and/or the deposits left by way of difficult water don’t pose a fitness concern and might have fitness benefits. We don’t deal with ingesting water for water hardness that can result in hard water deposits. What is the level oF hardness in my water? The hardness on your water is about 17 grains per gallon (gpg). Why is my water Cloudy or milky in appearanCe while it Comes out oF the tap? Water that appears cloudy or milky is typically due to trapped air (very small air bubbles) within the water. If this happens, without a doubt let the water stand for a few minutes—the air will use up leaving a clear glass of water..