Annual Drinking Water Quality Report for 2001

Town of Wallkill Cons. W.D. #1
P.O. Box 398. Middletown, N.Y. 10940
Public Water Supply ID# 3503584
 

To comply with State and Federal regulations, The Town of Wallkill Consolidated Water District #1 (Cons. W. D. #1) will be annually issuing a report describing the quality of your drinking water. The purpose of this report is to raise your understanding of drinking water and awareness of the need to protect our drinking water sources. Last year, your tap water met all State drinking water health standards. We are proud to report that your system has never violated a maximum contaminant level or any other water quality. Last year, we conducted tests for over 111 contaminants; we detected five of those contaminants, and

found none of those contaminants at a level higher than the State allows. This report provides an overview of last year's water quality. Included are details about where your water comes from, what it contains, and how it compares to State standards.

 

If you have any questions about this report or concerning your drinking water, please contact Ed Smith, Superintendent of Water and Sewer, at 342-1668. We want you to be informed about your drinking water. If you want to learn more, please attend any of our regularly scheduled Town Board meetings. The meetings are held at 7:30pm on the second and fourth Thursday of the month during January through May and September through December and on the fourth Thursday of the month during June through August. If you are unable to attend, you may wish to watch the meetings on Time Warner Cable channel 23. Dates and times of Water Committee meetings are announced at the Town Board meetings.

 

WHERE DOES OUR WATER COME FROM?

In general, the sources of drinking water (both tap water and bottled water) include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As water travels over the surface of the land or through the ground, it dissolves

naturally-occurring minerals and can pick up substances resulting from the presence of animals or from human activities. Contaminants that may be present in source water include: microbial contaminants; inorganic contaminants; pesticides and herbicides; organic chemical contaminants; and radioactive contaminants. In order to ensure that tap water is safe to drink, the

State and the EP A prescribe regulations which limit the amount of certain contaminants in water provided by public water systems. The State Health Department's and the FDA's regulations establish limits for contaminants in bottled water which must provide the same protection for public health.

 

Your water source is entirely a ground water (well) supply consisting of four sixteen-inch wells ranging in depth of thirty-four to fifty-three feet at the Kosuga site located off of Golf Links Road, six eight and ten-inch wells ranging in depth of twenty-one to thirty-five feet at the Braeside site located off of Golf Links Road at the end of the Orange County Golf Club Driving Range, three

sixteen-inch wells ranging in depth of fifty-six feet to sixty feet at the Crystal Run site located near the intersection of Goshen Turnpike and the Wallkill River, four, six-inch wells twenty-two feet deep at the Kischel site located at the end of Mt. Joy Road, and one four-inch well three hundred feet deep at the Scotchtown Estates location on Scotchtown Drive. During 2001, no water was supplied by the Kischel or Scotchtown Drive sites. Due to recent drought conditions, in November of 2001, the Town Board declared an emergency and two new wells referred to as Rykowski wells #2 and #3 were put on line. These wells are located approximately 500 feet west of the Crystal Run wells along the Wallkill River. The raw water is pumped to the Crystal Run treatment facility where the water receives the same treatment as the Braeside, Kosuga, and Crystal Run wells. This treatment is described later in this report. The Rykowski wells are twenty-four inch in diameter and are approximately sixty feet deep. During 2001, all of the water that the Town supplied to you came from beneath the ground and is referred to as ground water. Due to the extreme drought conditions, the water table is lower than in the past. This resulted in outside water restrictions being put in place in November of 2001. Due to the drought conditions, it is anticipated that these restrictions will remain in place through 2002. The Town has banned all outside water usage.

 

During 2001, the water was pumped from the wells to the treatment plants where chlorine and potassium permanganate are added to enhance the iron and manganese removal process as it passes through green sand filters. The water is disinfected with chlorine, the pH is raised using sodium hydroxide, and a blended phosphate is added before it leaves the treatment facilities.

 

The Consolidated Water District #1 has approximately forty-three hundred connections, and services approximately fourteen thousand two hundred people. The total amount of water produced in 2001 was 859 million gallons. The daily average of water treated and pumped into the distribution system was 2.3 million gallons per day. Our highest single day production was 3.28 million gallons. The amount of water delivered to customers was 708 million gallons or an average of 1.9 million gallons per day. The difference accounts for an average loss of .4 million gallons per day, which can be attributed to water main breaks, hydrant flushing, system losses, and etc. In 2001, the annual charge for water was $1.97 per thousand gallons.