HomeMy WebLinkAbout2337RESOLUTION NO 2337
RESOLUTION SETTING FORTH A CITY POLICY FOR TREATMENT OF
THE CITY'S UNION RIVER SURFACE SUPPLY.
WHEREAS, the City of Bremerton
supply system which is designed to meet
Bremerton and its water customers; and
owns and operates a municipal surface water
the existing and future needs of the City of
WHEREAS, the federal government amended the Safe Drinking Water Act requiring
filtration, disinfection and monitoring of all surface water supplies unless surface supplies
meet water quality and site control criteria; and
WHEREAS, the Surface Water Treatment Rule of the State of Washington
Department of Health, representing the Federal Environmental Protection Agency, requires
all Group A public water systems using surface source to filter by June 1993 unless source
water quality and site-specific criteria can be met; and
WHEREAS, the Washington State Department of Health requires the City of
Bremerton to state its intention with regard to a treatment and monitoring program for its
Union River surface supply; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton:
That the City of Bremerton will pursue a program to maintain an unfiltered surface
supply system, including:
A watershed management program for the protection of its domestic surface water
supplies consistent with the Washington State Department of Health regulations;
A water quality monitoring program specified by the Department of Health for
unfiltered surface supplies;
Improvements. to the McKenna Falls facility to enable the system to meet raw water
quality turbidity and coliform requirements,. to provide for duplicate chlorination
facilities, and to automatically shut down the system if water quality falls below
required standards;
Monitoring stations to measure chlorine residual along the surface water transmission
main prior to the water .entering the distribution system;
Changing customers from the surface water supply to ground water supply in those
areas where the required chlorine contact times cannot be met; and
Development sufficient ground water supplies to meet average system demand during
those periods when the surface supply does not meet water quality standards.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton this 27th day of February, 1991.
LYNN HORTON
Council President
APPROVED this 6 day of March, 1991.
LOUIS MENTOR, Mayor
KATHLEEN L. McCLUSKEY, Clerk
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