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2008 600-2450 ConsumerConfidenceReport:600-2086 ConsumerConfidence 6/22/09 151 AM Page 1 1-1 IMPORTANT DRINKING WATER HOW CAN I GET INVOLVED?The information contained in the RESULTS OF VOLUNTARY MONITORING See data sheets. DEFINITIONS Consumer Confidence Report may not answer all the questions you MCLG:Maximum Contaminant Level Goal: may have about the quality of the South Tahoe Public Utility District's REGARDING ARSENIC Arsenic is a naturally occurring substance water belowThe level of awhi h heenst lno known drinking water supply. The District welcomes public participation in drinkinthat is sometimes found at very low levels in drinking water, or expected risk to health.MCLGs developing water quality and quantity policy. For more information, primarily groundwater. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allow for a margin of safey. please call the District Information Office at 530-544-6474 (EPA) was required by the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of MCL:Maximum Contaminant Level:The extension 6208. If you would like more detailed scientific 1996 to finalize a new drinking water standard for arsenic in highest level of a contaminant that is scientific information and data.on d ase b allowed in drinking water.MCLs are set information, please call the District Laboratory at 530-544-6474 2001 good as close to the MCLGs as feasible extension 6231, or check our website at www.stpud.us using the best available treatment In September 2001, EPA adopted a new arsenic standard, or technology. The District is governed by an elected five-member Board of maximum contaminant level (MCL), of 0.010 milligrams per liter or PDWS:Primary Drinking Water Standards: Directors. Board meetings are held on the first and third Thursday of 10 parts per billion. This new standard went into effect on January MCLs for contaminants that affect health along with their monitoring and each month at 2:00 p.m. at the Customer Service Facility located at 23, 2006. Water utilities are not immediately declared out of reporting requirements,and water 1275 Meadow Crest Drive. All meetings are open to the public compliance or in violation of the new regulation. The federal treatment requirements. and the District encourages our customers to attend and become regulation requires that water systems monitor for arsenic during the AL:Action Level:The concentration of a involved in the policymakingprocess. contaminant which, if exceeded, first 1-3 years to determine their official compliance levels. Once triggers treatment or other requirements the monitoringis complete, a compliance determination is made. which a water system must follow. RESULTS OF RADON MONITORING Radon is a radioactive gas p p PHG:Primary Health Goal:The level of that you can't see, taste or smell. It is found throughout the U.S. The District is currently monitoring the affected wells. low contaminantwhich in thereidrinking is known below Radon can move up through the ground and into a home through Since the California Department of Heath Services (DHS) remains at beexpected risk to health. PHGs are set cracks and holes in the foundation. Radon can build up to higr h the prior MCL of 50 ppb, the federal standard of 10 ppb is now in by the California Environmental levels in all types of homes. Radon can also get into indoor air effect in California. DHS is helping EPA to implement the federal Protection Agency. when released from tap water from showering, washing dishes, p g MRDLG:Maximum Residual Disinfection and other household activities. Compared to radon entering the standard, but EPA is in charge of enforcing it. Once California Level Goal:The level of a drinking home through soil, radon enteringthe home through tapwater will finalizes its standard, DHS will resume enforcement duties as well. water disinfectant below which there is g 9 no known or expected risk to health. in most cases, be a small source of radon in indoor air. Radon is a Of the District's fourteen active drinking water wells, two exceed the MRDLGs do not reflect the benefits of known human carcinogen. Breathingair containingradon can lead the use of disinfectants to control g new standard. Of those two wells, one has been disconnected from microbial contaminants. to lung cancer. Drinking water containing radon may also cause the water distribution system, however it could be placed into MRDL:Maximum Residual Disinfectant Level: increased risk of stomach cancer. If you are concerned about radon temporary service in an emergency, such as fire. The remaining The highest level of a disinfectant in your home, test the air in your home. Testing is inexpensive and well is generallyutilized onlyduringthe summer months. allowed in drinking water.There is convincing evidence that addition of a easy. Fix your home if the level of radon in your air is 4 picocuries disinfectant is necessary for control of per liter of air (pCi/L) or higher. There are simple ways to fix a The District anticipates completion of this treatment project by late microbial contaminants. radon problem that aren't too costly. For additional information, 2009, and would then be in compliance with the federal standard. MNR:Monitored Not Regulated call your state radon program or call EPA's Radon Hotline This compliance plan has been reviewed and approved by the MPL:Maximum Permissible Level as (800-SOS-RADON). California Department of Pubilic Health (DPH). determined by the state of California SOUTH TAHOE PUBLIC Presorted UTILITY DISTRICT Standard Mail 1 275 Meadow Crest Drive U.S.Postage Paid South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150 Mailed from Zip Code 92899 Permit#146 FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Dennis Cocking, District Information Officer Phone 530-544-6474 Fax 530-541-0614 Email dcocking@stpud.dst.ca.us Website www.stpud.us CONSUMER ..a , CONFIDENCE REPORT 11‘.11 ..4.411' � 2008 j .- 'Psi,' , ,/ SPANISH (ESPANOL) _ Este informe contiene information may 4 importante sobre la calidad de su a ua 1!!!!"P"- — P 9 / beber.Traduscalo o hable con alguien / �\ #, que to entienda bien. V. , %,.*' / / . .:,g, A ( s 4 .. 1 ........ . , ,...,, ,.. , , AOPIIIIIIH, . . ,,,.. ,. .- hi, .....-- _....4j„,./P-vi ....gor , •` - / _,i,k r a ,_ . . . , v -,,,---,-, '37;t. f,f1 . '-'4', ' - ' . .4** . ." . ..-7 O (Mir/ � w- sir • :� p@ C UTY 015 •• r • r - ., � . • • • • ' ~ • 1 // -10- UNIT DESCRIPTIONS IS MY WATER SAFE? Last year, as in years past, your tap water, may reasonably be expected to contain at least small ug/L:Parts per billion water met all U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and amounts of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants mg/L:Number of milligrams of substance in state drinking water health standards. The South Tahoe Public does not necessarily indicate that water poses a health risk. one liter of water Utility District vigilantly safeguards its water supplies and, once More information about contaminants and potential health ppm:Parts per million,or milligrams per liter again, we are proud to report that our system has not violated a effects can be obtained by calling the Environmental Protection (mg/L) maximum contaminant level or any other water quality standard. Agency's (EPA) Safe Drinking Water Hotline (1-800-426-4791). ppb:Parts per billion,or micrograms per liter DO I NEED TO TAKE SPECIAL PRECAUTIONS? Some The sources of drinking water (both tap water and bottled water) (Ng/LI people may be more vulnerable to contaminants in drinking include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and ppt:Parts per trillion,or nanograms per liter water than the general population. Immuno-compromised persons wells. As water travels over the surface of the land or through ppq:Parts per quadrillion,or picograms per such aspersons with cancer undergoing chemotherapy, persons theground, it dissolves naturallyoccurringminerals and in liter g g pCi/L:Picocuries per liter(a measure of who have undergone organ transplants, people with HIV/AIDS some cases, radioactive material, and can pick up substances radioactivity) or other immune system disorders, some elderly, and infants can resulting from the presence of animals or from human activity. mrem/yr:Millirems per year(a measure of be particularly at risk from infections. These people should seek Microbial contaminants, such as viruses and bacteria, may radiation absorbed by the body) advice about drinking water from their health care providers. come from sewage treatment plants, septic systems, agricultural MFL:Million Fibers per Liter,used to measure EPA/Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines on appropriate livestock operations, and wildlife. Inorganic contaminants, such asbestos concentration means to lessen the risk of infection by Cryptosporidium and NTU:Nephelometric Turbidity Units.Turbidity other microbial contaminants are available from the USEPA's as salts and metals, can be naturally occurring or result from is a measure of the cloudiness of the Safe Water Drinking Hotline (1-800-426-4791). urban stormwater runoff, industrial, or domestic wastewater water. We monitor it because it is a discharges, oil and gas production, mining, or farming. good indicator of the effectiveness of WHERE DOES MY WATER COME FROM?The District's Pesticides and herbicides, may come from a variety of sources our filtration system. service area is organized into 16 pressure zones serving over such as agriculture, urban stormwater runoff, and residential positive samples/month:The number of 2.4 billion gallons annually from 14 active drinking water wells uses. Organic Chemical Contaminants, includingsynthetic and samples taken monthly that were found to over 14,000 homes and businesses. All our drinkingwater is g y to be positive volatile organic chemicals, are by-products of industrial pumped from underground aquifers. No water is taken from positive samples/yr:The number of positive processes and petroleum production, and can also come from samples taken that year Lake Tahoe or any other surface water source. gas stations, urban stormwater runoff, agricultural application %positive samples/month: Percentage of SOURCE WATER ASSESSMENT AND ITS AVAILABILITY and septic systems. Radioactive contaminants, can be naturally samples taken monthly that were The District has an ongoing drinking water source development occurring or be the result of oil and gas production and mining positive killed or inactivated:Percentage of program to seek additional drinking water well locations. Due to activities. In order to ensure that tap water is safe to drink, the % viruses/bacteria killed or inactivated by the volume of the average annual Sierra snowpack and Lake United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and the treatment method Tahoe itself, our aquifer has a significant recharge capability. State Dept. of Health Services (DHS) prescribe regulations that CFU/ml:Colony Forming Units per milliliter The District continues to work diligently to protect and maintain limit the amount of certain contaminants in water provided by NA:Not Applicable this precious natural resource. public water systems. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ND: Not Detected WHY ARE THERE CONTAMINANTS IN MY regulations establish limits for contaminants in bottled water NR: Not Required, but recommended DRINKING WATER? Drinking water, including bottled which must provide the same protection for public health. CONTAMINANTS MCLG/PHG MCL OR AVG RANGE SAMPLE VIOLATION TYPICAL SOURCE WATER QUALITY DATA TABLE OR MRDLG MRDL LOW HIGH DATE OR NL The table to the right lists all of the INORGANIC CONTAMINANTS drinking water contaminants that we Arsenic(ppb( 0.004 50 4.7 ND 13.2 2008 No Erosion of natural deposits; Runoff detected that are applicable for the from orchards; Runoff from glass and calendar year of this report.The electronics production wastes presence of contaminants in the Barium(ppb) 2,000 1,000 10 ND 40.0 2008 No Erosion of natural deposits water does not necessarily indicate Chromium(ppb) 50 1.1 ND 1.5 2008 No Erosion of natural deposits that the water poses a health risk. Fluoride(ppm) 1 2 0.08 ND 0.24 2008 No Erosion of natural deposits;Water Unless otherwise noted, the data additive which promotes strong teeth; presented in this table is from testing Discharge from fertilizer and done in the calendar year of the aluminum factories report. The EPA or the State Nitrate[measured as Nitrogen](ppm) 10 10 0.28 ND 1.04 2008 No Runoff from fertilizer use;Leaching requires us to monitor for certain from septic tanks,sewage; Erosion of natural deposits contaminants less than once per year because the concentrations of Sodium(optional)(ppb) NA MPL 12 4.3 25.2 2008 No Erosion of natural deposits; Leaching these contaminants do not change RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINANTS frequently. Gross Alpha(pCi/L), minus Uranium 15 2.63 ND 6.7 2008 No Erosion of natural deposits Uranium(pCi/L) 0.5 20 3.1 0.69 7.3 2008 No Erosion of natural deposits Radium-226(pCi/L) 0.05 0.3 0.04 0.6 2008 No Erosion of natural deposits Radium-228(pCi/L) 0.019 1.1 0.27 1.92 2008 No Erosion of natural deposits Radium-226+Radium-228 5 1.4 0.63 2.32 2008 No Erosion of natural deposits VOLATILE ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS MTBE[Methyl Tert Butyl Ether](ppb) 5 13 ND ND 0.4 2008 No Leaking underground fuel storage tanks TTHMs[Total Trihalomethanes](ppb) NA 80 1.7 ND 5.6 2008 No Byproduct of drinking water disinfection MICROBIOLOGICAL CONTAMINANTS Total Coliforms(%Positive each month) 5 0 1.2 2008 No E.Coli(%Positive) 0 0 0 2008 No Heterotrophic Plate Count or HPC (CFU) NA ND 1.9 2008 No Turbidity(NTU)The Turbidly limit for the highest single measurement.Your water was 0.40 NTU 5 2008 Soil runoff MCLG/PHG AL 90TH SAMPLE #SAMPLES EXCEEDS TYPICAL SOURCE INORGANIC CONTAMINANTS PERCENTILE DATE EXCEEDING AL AL ADDITIONAL CONTAMINANTS Lead-action level at consumer taps(ppb) ND 15 ND 2008 0 No Corosion of household plumbing systems; Erosion of natural deposits In an effort to insure the safest water Copper-action level at consumer taps(ppb) ND 1,300 110 2008 0 No Internal corrosian of household plumbing possible the State has required us to systems;erosian of natural deposits; monitor some contaminants not leaching from wood preservatives required by Federal regulations. Of those contaminants only the ones CONTAMINANT STATE MCL AVG VIOLATION SAMPLE EXPLANATION AND COMMENT listed to the right were found in your DATE water. Alkalinily,Total(ppm) NA 50.3 mg/L No 2008 Erosion of natural deposits Bromide(ppm) NA 0.014 mg/L No 2008 Erosion of natural deposits Calcium(ppm) NA 1 1.9 mg/L No 2008 Erosion of natural deposits Carbon Dioxide, Free(ppm) NA 5.6 mg/L No 2008 Naturally occuring Chloride(ppm) 500 8.9 mg/L No 2008 Erosion of natural deposits Chlorine,Free(ppm) 4 mg/L 0.4 mg/L No 2008 Byproduct of disinfection process Color(Units) 15 5 No 2008 Naturally occurring organic materials Dissolved Solids,Total(ppm) 1,000 mg/L 92 mg/L No 2008 Erosion of natural deposits Electrical Conductance(umhos/cm) 1,600 134 No 2008 Erosion of natural deposits Hardness(ppm) NA 39.0 mg/L No 2008 Erosion of natural deposits Iron(ppb) 300 53.0 ug/L No 2008 Erosion of natural deposits Magnesium(ppm) NA 2.27 mg/L No 2008 Erosion of natural deposits Odor-Threshold(Units) 3 1 No 2008 Naturally occurring organic materials Organic Carbon,Total(ppm) NA 0.31 mg/L No 2008 ortho-Phosphate,as P(ppm) NA 0.035 mg/L No 2008 Erosion of natural deposits Perchlorate(ppb) NA ND No 2008 Erosion of natural deposits Phosphorus,Total(ppm) NA 0.041 mg/L No 2008 Erosion of natural deposits pH NA 7.89 Units No 2008 Erosion of natural deposits Potassium(ppm) NA 1.22 mg/L No 2008 Erosion of natural deposits Radon pCi/L) NA 1,175 pCi/L No 2008 Silica(mg/L) NA 28 mg/L No 2008 Erosion of natural deposits Sulfate(ppm) 500 3.52 mg/L No 2008 Erosion of natural deposits Temperature-System(°F) NA 50° No 2008 Erosion of natural deposits Vanadium(ppb) NA 3.4 No 2008 Erosion of natural deposits Z ebpd WV T T 60/ZZ/9 eoueptjuoo.zewnsuoo 9R0Z-009:4zodexeouepTJuo3.zewnsuo0 OSbZ-009