For Water Subcommittee Meeting October 23, 2024
TO: Honorable Water Subcommittee Members
APPROVAL: John Rossi, Interim Utilities Director
FROM: Toyasha Sebbag, Assistant to the City Manager
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Staff requests that the Water Subcommittee provide feedback on the operation of City Well 2. (ACTION)
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the Water Subcommittee provide feedback on the operation of City Well 2.
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BACKGROUND
In 1996, the United States Congress amended the Safe Drinking Water Act by adding a provision requiring all community water systems to deliver a brief annual water quality report. The annual report is referred to as a Consumer Confidence Report (CCR) and is delivered to customers annually no later than July 1st.
The CCR includes information on our source water, the levels of any detected contaminants for the calendar year, compliance with drinking water rules, plus educational material.
The online availability of the Annual Consumer Confidence Report, created by Rialto Water Services (RWS), as operated by Veolia of North America was sent to customers in the message box of their water bill. It explained that the report is online on the RWS website and can be obtained as a hard copy from certain City facilities. Customers can also request a copy by mail through their billing statements.
This year's report covered the calendar year 2023 drinking water quality testing and reporting.
On May 29, 2024, the Consumer Confidence Report was presented to the Water Subcommittee. The Water Subcommittee provided feedback that the item be placed on the Utilities Commission agenda for consideration to move the item forward to the City Council as a discussion item.
Historically the item has been placed on the City Council Agenda as a consent item for receive and file. However, based on the reported increase in arsenic in City Well 2 from non-detectable of 3.1 milligrams per liter (?g/L) with an average of 0.52 ?g/L in 2020 to non-detectable of 9....
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