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Posted on: December 8, 2016

[ARCHIVED] Lead and Copper Public Notice

 

LEAD & COPPER RULE MONITORING AND REPORTING VIOLATION

MANDATORY LANGUAGE – TIER III

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR DRINKING WATER

The City of Henderson has violated the monitoring and reporting requirements set by Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in Chapter 30, Section 290, Subchapter F.  Even though these were not emergencies, as our customers, you have the right to know what happened and what we are doing (or did) to correct these situations.

We are required to monitor your drinking water for specific contaminants on a regular basis. Results of regular monitoring are an indicator of whether or not our drinking water meets health standards. During the third quarter, we were unable to collect samples from all 30 of our preapproved sample locations for lead and copper, due to the vacancy of some of our sample locations. In an effort to meet the state requirement for the number of required samples we were supposed to collect, we collected from 10 alternate sites that weren’t pre-approved by the state.  Even though all 30 samples were well within the required parameters set by TCEQ, because 10 were rejected for not  being from preapproved sites, we are required to issue you this notice.

It should be noted that all of the lead and copper samples collected were well within compliance levels of lead and copper content.

What is being done?

We are updating our monitoring plan to include 30 preapproved alternate sample locations.  In addition, we will also be collecting 30 additional lead and copper samples in 2017.

 

Please share this information with all other people who drink this water, especially those who may not have received this notice directly (i.e. people in apartments, nursing homes, schools, and business). You can do this by posting this notice in a public place or distributing copies by hand or mail.

This notice is being sent to you by The City of Henderson.  Public Water System Number 2010001

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