2021 Water Quality Report Added

The CCR (Consumer Confidence Report) that documents the LMWA water quality efforts and test results for calendar year 2021 has been published to the website under "Information/CCR Reports".

Please read through it to understand the details of what is in our water and what the State of Colorado (and the EPA) regulate as well as what they don't. The key things to understand are the following:

1. There are PRIMARY and SECONDARY contaminants that our certified operator tests for using state certified labs. The PRIMARY contaminants have levels that we must not exceed and they are called MCLs (Maximum Contamination Levels) and ALs (Action Levels). Typically the 2nd to last column for each item in the report will say whether the MCL or AL has been exceeded. The SECONDARY contaminants in the report DO NOT HAVE MAXIMUM LEVELS because they are deemed by the state and the EPA not to have adverse health effects.

2. If LMWA has violations of permits, record keeping, etc., those are also listed along with the required remedy for each violation.

The high level summary is that the water association did not have any violations in calendar year 2021. That said, our water is very hard and has quite a bit of sediment in it that you may want to filter using a water softener, whole house filter or other filtration system in your home. The water is safe and healthy by health department standards but additional treatment for taste or aesthetic reasons is always something in which each homeowner can invest.

As an additional note, we DID have a dirty/contaminated water issue at the north end of Bluebird after the water main repair last fall. As a result of that issue additional flushing and testing and an additional round of flushing was done to get back to normal water quality for the homes impacted. As part of that effort we, along with our certified operator and a third party consultant, identified a unique issue with that segment of water main where the north Bluebird fire hydrant is not at the end of the water main which makes it very difficult to effectively flush the line. So, in the coming weeks you will all see some system work to add a special flushing hydrant to the very end of that arm of the system so that our system flushing activity is as effective there as it is elsewhere. We'll keep you all posted on that work and the final cost and it's impact on our finances.

Since this begs an additional question I'll answer it ahead of you asking - yes, given this issue, we did inspected the plans, the hydrant locations and the water tap locations for the other water main endpoints and their associated fire hydrants and we believe that this issue does not exist elsewhere in our distribution system.

That's plenty to digest for now. If you have questions, please email me and I'll do my best to answer them.

Thanks,

Phil for the LMWA Board