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Show Council given two weeks to chlorinate city water City's cold spring water supply not approved by board of health The Utah Dept. of Health seems quite determiined that Springville, long noted for its fine spring water, will chlorinate chlor-inate the water supply to help complete the record of chlori-nation chlori-nation for every town in Utah County. Water tests over the past 18 months, show 11 satisfactory sat-isfactory and 7 unsatisfactory reports for the period covering Jan. 1963 through June 1964. The health department has gone so far as to advise that unless Springville chlorinates the water supply, there will be no more FHA loans made to home builders in the city after a specified date. In other words the city would be condemned con-demned if the water is not chlorinated. Springville has long been publicized as having the best looking water supply set-up in the state with the most of the supply 10 feet underground. To let the people know what pressure is being put on the city council, the following letter let-ter from the health department depart-ment is being printed in part: Gentlemen: On January 8, 1862 a "Provisionally "Pro-visionally Approved" water rating ra-ting was assigned the Springville Spring-ville public water supply on the condition that the city would enter into an intensified bacteriological sampling program pro-gram and that the public water wa-ter supply would continuously comply with the bacteriological bacteriologi-cal standards of the U.S. Public Pub-lic Health Service. A review of the Springville water system's bacteriological record for the past 18 months indicates the presence of excessive ex-cessive contaminat ion, as shown by their tabulation: The tabulation lists each month from January 1963 to June 1964 with the number of samples analyzed, the number of portions analyzed, the number num-ber of portions containing col-iform col-iform bacteria and the percent portions containing coliform bacteria all listed for each month. Figuring the percent of portions containing coliform bacteria over 18 months, the health department found the presence of bacteria to be slightly higher than satisfactory satisfac-tory . , The letter stated further: Since the presence of coliform coli-form bacteria in more than 10 (continued on page 8, col. 4) Council asked to chlorinate water (continued from page one) percent of the sample portions examined during any one month is evidence of a health hazard of unacceptable degree, it is obvious that during 7 of the past 18 months Springville Spring-ville water system has failed to meet minimum standards of health protection. In view of the unsatisfactory unsatisfac-tory record, this department has no alternative but to reclassify re-classify the Springville water system rating to that of "Not Approved", effective August 7, 1984. Under present Board of Health policy a "Classification Pending" status can be assigned as-signed to your water system upon receipt of (1) plans covering all necessary water system improvements, including includ-ing chlorination of the spring supplies, and (2) an acceptable accept-able schedule for comletlon of each item of improvement. A copy of this policy statement outlining the procedure is enclosed en-closed for your information. If, by official action of the City Council, a suitable plan and time table as indicated above can be received prior to the re-assignment date of August Au-gust 7, we can take action as indicated above and avoid a "Not Approved" classification. If you have any questions regarding this matter please feel free to call on lis. UTAH STATE -DEPT. OF HEALTH Lynn M. Thatcher, Director Division of Environmental Health |