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within the confines of this response. currently applied by regulation. We
is not allowed. To do so would be a Not all state water systems have to don’t write the rules and regulations;
violation of regulation as well. That meet the 2.0 mg/l limit. Some systems we just work diligently to meet them.
is also why we have to receive the ad- may have three or four times our limit
ministrative order and notice before without ever exceeding their applied To our customers
we notify the public. If we have an TOC mg/l level. Which means their Please keep in mind that the Weav-
immediate safety or health concern, customers wouldn’t receive the same erville Water Treatment Facility is
you will hear it through radio, TV, notice. Weaverville water system has the first consumer of the Weaverville
and any other method available for the lowest total organic carbon allow- water we produce. New regulations
rapid notification. able limit applied within this rule. are passed and allowable limits are
Total organic carbon in of itself has ever lowering. Meeting these limits
Weaverville Water Alert report no adverse health effects. Our running is sometimes challenging with exist-
The N.C. Department of the Envi- annual four-quarter TOC average did ing technologies. I wish I could assure
ronmental and Natural Resources did not exceed the limit of 2.0 mg/l until you we would never have to send out
not set our TOC Treatment Tech- the four-quarter’s end date of March another notice for any reason. That
nique limit of 2.0 mg/l (not 2 percent 31, 2009 and the four-quarter’s end would be irresponsible to do.
as reported). Historical TOC data date of June 30, 2009. This also is As regulations tighten, new regula-
from Jan. 2006 (not 2005 as reported) complicated to understand and ex- tions are added, limits ever lowering,
through Jan. 2007 (four quarters) de- plain in the content of my response. and the many other factors involved in
termined what limit would be applied The TOC rule is a double jeopardy- the complex world of water treatment,
for our system compliance. After this type rule within a rule. We have re- make notices more probable than not.
occurs, your compliance period be- quested NCDENR to review content That being said, there has never been
gins, recalculating each completed of the notice due to the fact that the a time throughout publicly supplied
quarter. by-products described within the no- waters history, where water was more
This also is too complex to explain tice were never above the excess limit heavily regulated, tested, monitored,
higher in quality than you now enjoy.
We can only work to keep making it
better.
Please contact me at 658-2417 with
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Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2009
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