Maine CDC Drinking Water Program Update

1. Maine CDC Drinking Water Program Update 2013

2. DWP Staffing Updates Jennifer Jamison – Lab Cert Officer 1/13 Darren Brann – Compliance Officer 6/13 Rychel McKenzie – Field Engineer Bangor 9/13 Assistant Laboratory Certification Officer – new position - Interviewing Compliance Officer – one vacancy (Pam Bryer) Compliance Officer – Lindy Moceus retiring 12/27 Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

3. DWP Budget Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

4. Drinking Water State Revolving Fund $200 Million Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

5. 2014 DWSRF • 48 project applications were received totaling requests of $24 Million • Draft Primary List prepared with 28projects with $14 Million of DWSRF Funding. • Preparation on the 2013 Intended Use Plan and Final Primary List is expected to completed in January 2013. Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

6. Grant Opportunities • Wellhead Protection Grants • Up to $5,000 per project ($10,000 for exceptional circumstances) • Source Water Protection Grants • Up to $5,000 per project ($10,000 for exceptional circumstances) • Capacity Development Grants • Up to $10,000 ($15,000 for exceptional projects) Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

7. Grant Opportunities • Consolidation Grants • Up to $100,000 • Very Small Water System Compliance “Loan” • Up to $50,000 • Sanitary Well Seal Cap Program • Up to $250 Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

8. Land Acquisition Loans Purchase or Conserve Source Water Protection Land Contact Erika Bonenfant Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

9. DWSRF State Match • 2014 • Approximately $1.7 million needed • LD 1492 Carryover bill from 2013 Legislative Session • Other Alternatives • 2015 and beyond • State Liquor Contract • Revenue available starting in June 2015 Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

10. Pace of Spending Unliquidated Obligations (ULOs) Congress questioning the need for additional funding if the current funding isn’t being spent EPA is asking states to consider ways of moving money faster Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

11. Compliance Topics Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

12. Reduction of Lead in Drinking Water Act Signed into law January 2011 Effective January 4, 2014 “Going Lead Free” session at 1:30 pm Do hydrants need to meet the new lead free standard? Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

13. NSF/ANSI Standard 61 • All materials, products and coatings that contact drinking water must be certified to meet NSF/ANSI Standard 61 • Standard 61 requires compliance with the lead free provisions of the SDWA Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

14. NSF/ANSI Standard 60 • All chemicals must be certified to Standard 60 • Sanitary Survey • Labeling on packaging and/or • Delivery and manufacturer paperwork • Request to add or change chemicals • All changes to chemicals must be approved by the DWP • Documentation must include Standard 60 certification Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

15. Drinking Water Compliance • Sample early in the compliance period. • Allow for lab analysis time. • Analysis results must be submitted by certified lab by the 10th day of the following month to avoid a reporting violation. • Monthly Operating Reports submitted by the 10th of the following month- must be signed by the Designated Operator unless otherwise approved by the DWP Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

16. Revised Total Coliform Rule Complete details at the 11:45 Session on Thursday Effective April 2016 – Maine might implement on January 1, 2016 Non-Acute MCL goes away Requires Assessments and Corrective Action Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

17. Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule Stage 2 Rule applies to all systems that add a disinfectant. Stage 2 Rule for Schedule 3 & 4 serving a populations of 49,999 and less effective on October 1, 2013. Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

18. Sample Results from Private Labs As of January 1, 2013 In-state private labs are required to submit data electronically in an approved format Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

19. Resources on the DWP Website Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

20. Web Resources

24. Other States

25. Water Reuse • Orange County Water District – Ground Water replenishment Systems • Additional treatment of wastewater and injecting the treated water into the ground for future use • 70 MGD capacity • Microfiltration, RO, UV with Hydrogen Peroxide • Tested for over 400 compounds Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

26. Water Reuse • Benefits • Creates a new local water supply • Reuses a wasted resource • Increases water supply reliability • Costs less than imported water • Saves half the energy over imported water and two-thirds the energy to desalinate seawater • Improves quality of water in the groundwater basin • Direct Reuse in the future Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

27. Baker City, Oregon Crypto Outbreak!

28. Baker City watershed – Elkhorn Mtns Goodrich Lake – elev. 6871

29. Crypto Outbreak Timeline • 7/29-31/13 – Increasing numbers of illnesses- 5 crypto confirmed • 7/31/13 – City issues precautionary boil notice, begins sampling from sources and distribution for crypto • 8/3/13 – Test results from 7/31 positive for crypto/giardia • 8/7/13 – Very high crypto result for 8/4 Elk Creek intake sample, intake shut down • 8/20/13 – Boil notice lifted after two rounds of source and distribution samples with non-detect results • 8/21/13 to present - Two samples per week from combined source water before treatment

30. Outbreak Decisions and Findings • Water is source of outbreak – 20+% attack rate (household survey) • Most likely cause is cattle access to watershed • Criteria for ending the boil notice – 2 consecutive negative crypto findings from sources and distribution • Criteria for ongoing monitoring – 2 crypto samples per week from combined source water, at least 3 days apart • Criteria for resuming boil notice in future - 2 consecutive positive crypto findings • Improved watershed control over cattle access is prerequisite to continuation of filtration exception and sufficiency of UV light treatment

31. Backflow Events -Oklahoma January 2008 Indication of contamination: blue water leaking out of a line break and flowing into a creek It was later determined that the color was caused by an indicator that had been used with a mixture of herbicides Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

32. Backflow Events -Oklahoma A commercial herbicides applicator about ¾ mile north of the stream had been filling a 500 gallon tank containing concentrated herbicides and blue colorant Herbicides back-siphoned into the water lines through a cross-connection created by a hose submerged in the pesticide within a mixing tank No backflow prevention device Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

33. Backflow Events -Oklahoma Initially turned off entire distribution system – population 4600 Resorted water service to areas as testing indicated no contamination Spent over $78,000 on water testing Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

34. Backflow Events -Oklahoma June 2013 Indication of contamination: foam coming from a kitchen faucet A private pesticide applicator had been filling a tank containing herbicides – hose submerged in tank Water District had planned repair involving shutting off a portion of the distribution system No backflow prevention device Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

35. Backflow Events -Oklahoma Approximately 100 rural service connections were left without water – 50 miles of water line Nine days to restore full service Testing Costs - $20,000 Keep Your Drinking Water Safe: Protect Your Source Take Your Samples Maintain Your Treatment Inspect Your Pipes & Tanks

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