Ypsilanti Community Utility Authority

We at YCUA provide your ingesting water and are thrilled to present you with our twentieth annual water nice document. This document follows the recommendations set via the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ). We intend to provide you with a secure and reliable water supply. This file illustrates that we are achieving our intention. Source Water Assessment YCUA obtains your consuming water from the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) water device, previously Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD). Your supply water comes from the Detroit River, located inside the Lake St. Clair, Clinton River, Detroit River, Rogue River, and Ecorse River watersheds inside the U.S. And elements of the Thames River, Little River, Turkey Creek and Sydenham watersheds in Canada. MDEQ in partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey, DWSD, and the Michigan Public Health Institute finished a source water evaluation in 2004 to determine the susceptibility of capability infection. The susceptibility rating is on a seven tiered scale from ”very low” to “very excessive” primarily based by and large on geologic sensitivity, water chemistry, and contaminant sources. The susceptibility of our Detroit River source water intakes was decided to be particularly at risk of ability contamination. However, all four GLWA water remedy plant life that uses source water from the Detroit River have historically supplied first-class treatment of this supplied water to fulfill consuming water standards. GLWA has initiated supply-water protection activities that consist of chemical containment, spill reaction, and a mercury reduction application. GLWA participates in a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit discharge application and has an emergency response management plan. In 2015, GLWA obtained a provide from MDEQ to broaden a supply water safety application for the Detroit River intakes. The programs include seven elements that consist of the following: roles and obligations of government devices and water deliver corporations, delineation of supply water protection regions, the identity of potential contaminated sources, management techniques for source water safety, contingency plans, siting of recent assets and public participation. If you would like to recognize more records about the Source Water Assessment file please, touch the Water Quality Division Manager at 313.926.8102 or mary. Semegen@glwater.Org. General Information About GLWA If you wish to research extra about the plant life that deals with our water or achieve records concerning GLWA Board meetings, please visit www.Glwater.Org. The GLWA voluntarily monitors for the protozoans Cryptosporidium and Giardia. The December 2017 untreated water sample accrued on the Belle Isle consumption contained 1 Giardia cyst. All other samples accrued within the yr 2017 have been absent for the presence of Cryptosporidium and Giardia within the untreated water. Systems using surface water like GLWA have to provide a remedy so that ninety-nine.Nine percent of Giardia lamblia is removed or inactivated. Health and Safety Information Drinking water, which includes bottled water, may additionally moderately be predicted to comprise as a minimum small quantity of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does not always indicate that water poses a fitness hazard. More facts approximately contaminants and capacity health effects can be received through calling the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 800.426.4791. Sources of drinking water (both tap water and bottled water) consist of rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As water travels over the surface of the land or via the floor, it dissolves certainly-going on minerals and, in some instances, radioactive material, and might pick up materials attributable to the presence of animals or from human interest. Contaminants that can be found in source water include • Microbial contaminants, which include viruses and bacteria, which might also come from sewage treatment plant life, septic systems, agricultural farm animal operations, and the natural world. • Inorganic contaminants, which include salts and metals, which may be naturally-occurring or result from city stormwater runoff, business or domestic wastewater discharges, oil and gas production, mining, or farming. • Pesticides and herbicides, which may additionally come from a spread of resources such as agriculture, city typhoon water runoff, and home uses. • Organic chemical contaminants, inclusive of artificial and volatile organics, which are via-products of commercial tactics and petroleum production, and can also come from gas stations, urban typhoon water runoff, and septic structures. • 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 secure to drink, EPA prescribes rules which restrict the number of certain contaminants in water furnished by public water systems. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) policies establish limits for contaminants in bottled water, which have to offer the identical protection for public fitness. Based on testing effects at some point of 2015-2017 (Test Results Table), all of those contaminants had been under the level of difficulty for safe drinking water requirements set through EPA. Information for People with Special Health Concerns Some people may be extra susceptible to contaminants in consuming water than the general population. Immunocompromised men and women, such those undergoing chemotherapy, having undergone organ transplants, people with HIV/AIDS or different immune machine problems, a few elderly, and babies can be mainly at threat from infections. These people must are seeking recommendations approximately consuming water from their fitness care vendors. EPA/Center for Disease Control suggestions on a suitable manner to reduce the chance of infection by using Cryptosporidium and other microbial contaminants are to be had from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline (800.426.4791). Lead In Drinking Water If present, expanded degrees of lead can reason extreme fitness troubles, especially for pregnant women and young kids. Lead in ingesting water is mostly from substances and additives associated with service lines and home plumbing. YCUA is accountable for supplying excessive first-rate consuming water, however, cannot control the form of substances used in plumbing additives. When your water has been sitting for several hours, you can limit the capability for lead exposure via flushing your faucet for 30 seconds to two minutes before the use of water for consuming or cooking..

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS What is a water provider line? The line that brings freshwater from the water enterprise's connection to your house. You must hold.What am I accountable for? As a domestic proprietor, you're responsible for the outdoors water service traces on your private home, from the water agency's connection to the factor of entry into your house. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR OF THE WATER SERVICE LINE ON YOUR PROPERTY..