Important Notice About Your Drinking Water - December 16, 2019
Posted December 16, 2019 Haloacetic Acid 5 (HAA5) Sampling Indicates Non-Compliance with a
Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) Belleville Township Water Department
Our water system recently violated a drinking water standard. Even though this was not an emergency, as our customers, you have a right to know what happened and what we are doing to correct the situation.
We routinely monitor for the presence of drinking water contaminants. Testing results from October 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019 show that our system exceeds the standard, or maximum contaminant level (MCL), for HAA5. The standard for HAA5 is 60 parts per billion. It is determined by averaging all samples collected at each sampling location for the last 12 months. The levels of HAA5 averaged at two of our system’s four locations for October 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019 were 63 and 62 parts per billion respectively.
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT LEAD IN YOUR DRINKING WATER
The Belleville Water Department (BWD) found elevated levels of lead in drinking water in some homes/buildings. Lead can cause serious health problems, especially for pregnant women and young children. Please read this information closely to see what you can do to reduce lead in your drinking water.
This notice is being distributed to you and all customers of the BWD as a regulatory requirement. Under the Code of Federal Regulations for the Control of Lead and Copper, 40 CFR Part 141 Subpart I, BWD is required to routinely sample for lead and copper at a minimum number of locations based on the population served.
The 90th percentile value for our water system is greater than the lead action level of 15 parts per billion (ppb). The action level is the concentration of a contaminant which, if exceeded, triggers treatment or other requirements which a water system must follow. This means BWD must ensure that water results from the locations sampled do not exceed this level in at least 90 percent of the sites sampled (90th percentile result)