Annual Drinking Water Quality Report

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Stonehenge
03-92-298
9 Wells
5/30/2000

Heater Utilities, Inc. is pleased to present you with the Annual Drinking Water Quality Report for 1999. This report is designed to inform you about the quality of water and the services we deliver to you every day. Our constant goal is to provide you with a safe and dependable supply of drinking water. We want you to understand the efforts we make to continually improve the water treatment process and the efforts made to protect our water resources. Heater is committed to meet or exceed all Federal and State standards, ensuring the quality of your water. Your water supply, groundwater provided from community wells, serves multiple subdivisions in the area as shown on the map. Each of our community wells has a 100 foot protected area from potential sources of contamination. Our treatment process includes disinfection at each source and corrosion control and mineral control as needed.
As water travels over the land or underground it dissolves naturally-occurring minerals and, in some cases, it can pick up substances or contaminants such as microbes, inorganic and organic chemicals, and radioactive substances, that result from the presence of animals or from human activity. All sources of drinking water, including your wells, are subject to potential contamination by substances that are naturally occurring or man made. All drinking water, including bottled water, may reasonably be expected to contain at least small amounts of some contaminants. However, the presence of contaminants does not necessarily indicate that the water poses a health risk.
Some people may be more vulnerable to contaminants in drinking water than the general population. Immuno-compromised persons, such as persons with cancer undergoing chemotherapy, persons who have undergone organ transplants, people with HIV/AIDS or other immune system disorders, some elderly, and infants can be particularly at risk from infections. These people should seek advice about drinking water from their health care providers.
For more information about contaminants and their potential health effects and EPA/CDC guidelines on appropriate means to lessen the risk of infection by cryptosporidium and other microbiological contaminants please call the Environmental Protection Agency's Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791.
It is important to remember that the presence of these contaminants does not necessarily pose a health risk. Heater is pleased to report that our drinking water is safe and it meets all Federal and State requirements.
This report shows our water quality and what it means. If you have any questions about this report, or would like to learn more about your water system, please contact our Customer Service Department at (919) 467-7854 during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
We at Heater Utilities, Inc. work around the clock to provide safe drinking water to every tap. We ask that all of our customers help us protect our water sources, which are the heart of our community, our way of life, and our children's future.
Heater Utilities, Inc. routinely monitors for over 100 contaminants in your drinking water according to Federal and State laws. The attached table shows detections found for the monitoring period of January Ist to December 31st 1999 and the last test results of contaminants that were not due to be tested in 1999.

In the table you will find many terms and abbreviations you might not be familiar with. The following are terms and abbreviations used throughout this report:

Action Level

Maximum Contaminant Level

MCL's are set as close to the MCLG's as feasible using the best available treatment technology. MCL's are set at very stringent levels. To understand the possible health effects described for many regulated constituents, a person would have to drink 2 liters of water every day at the MCL level for a lifetime, to have a one-in-a-million chance of having the described health effect.

Maximum Contaminant Level Goal

Non-Detects (ND)

Parts per billion (ppb) or Micrograms per liter

Parts per million (ppm) or Milligrams per liter (mgl7)

Picocuries per liter (pCi/L)

TEST RESULTS
Contaminant	Unit Measurement	MCL	MCLG	Level Detected	Range	Average	Violation	Likely Source of Contamination
MICROBIOLOGICAL CONTAMINANTS - 1999
Total Coliform Bacteria	Present or Absent	presence of coliform bacteria in 5% of monthly samples	0	0	ND		No	Naturally present in the environment
RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINANTS - 1996
Beta/photon emitters (unregulated)	Pci/1	50	0	3.44			N/A	Naturally present in the environment
Alpha emitters	Pci/1	15	0	1.33			No	Erosion of natural deposits
INORGANIC CONTAMINANTS - 1997 - 1998
Barium	Ppm	2	2	Highest 0.284	ND-0.284	0.127	No	Discharge of drilling wastes; discharge from metal refineries; erosion of natural deposits
Copper 1998	Ppm	AL=1.3	1.3	.080			No	Corrosion of household plumbing systems; erosion of natural deposits; leaching from wood presevatives
TEST RESULTS
Contaminant	Unit Measurement	MCL	MCLG	Level Detected	Range	Average	Violation	Likely Source of Contamination
Fluoride	Ppm	4	4	Highest 0.20	ND-0.20	0.097	No	Erosion of natural deposits; water additive which promotes strong teeth; discharge from fertilizer and aluminum factories
Nitrate (as Nitrogen) 1999	Ppm	10	10	Highest 1.86	ND to 1.86	0.40	No	Runoff from fertilizer use; leaching from septic tanks; sewage; erosion of natural deposits

As you can see by the table, our system had no violations. We're proud that your drinking water meets or exceeds all Federal and State Requirements. We have learned through our monitoring and testing that some constituents have been detected. The EPA has determined that your water IS SAFE at these levels.