DDW-2024-006064

195 North 1950 West • Salt Lake City, UT
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 144830 • Salt Lake City, UT 84114-4830
Telephone [phone] • Fax [phone] • T.D.D. [phone]
www.deq.utah.gov
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State of Utah

SPENCER J. COX
Governor

DIEDRE HENDERSON
Lieutenant Governor
Department of
Environmental Quality

Kimberly D. Shelley
Executive Director

DIVISION OF DRINKING WATER
Nathan Lunstad, P.E.
Director

January 23, 2024

BONNER HARDGREE
FRUITLAND WATER SSD
H.C. 63 Box 270130
FRUITLAND, UT 84027

Subject: Notice of Violation – FRUITLAND WATER SSD - UTAH07058

BONNER HARDGREE:

Our records show this water system is in violation of the State of Utah Public Drinking Water Rules.
The Division of Drinking Water (the Division) is missing analytical results for the following
analytes and compliance periods in 2023:

Compliance
Period Start Date
Compliance
Period End Date
Analyte Facility Name Facility Code
1/1/2023 12/31/2023 NITRATE SAMPLING
STATION - 01
02 03
SS968

Failure to collect these samples is in violation of Utah Administrative Code Rule 309-205.
The violations result in the addition of points to this system’s Improvement Priority System (IPS)
report for each missing sample and could adversely affect this water system’s rating (see R309-
400).

To resolve this violation, please collect the missing sample as soon as possible within the next
30 days. Upon receipt of results, we will resolve the violation and remove the points from the
system’s IPS report. Additionally, please notify the Division if this letter is in error.

In accordance with the public notice requirements given in R309-220-7, the system must notify all
the water system’s consumers of this violation within one year after you learn of the violation.
BONNER HARDGREE
Page 2 of 2
January 23, 2024

Please reference the enclosed public notice template for guidance. Community water systems must
provide notice using one or more of the following methods:

 Mail or other direct delivery to each customer receiving a bill and to other service
connections to which water is delivered
 Through the 2023 Consumer Confidence Report due July 1, 2024
 Another method reasonably calculated to reach other persons regularly served by the system
(house renters, apartment dwellers, university students, nursing home patients, prison
inmates etc.).

A copy of the notice you send to the system’s consumers must be approved by the Division. Please
send a copy of the notice to the Division at [e-mail] and [e-mail] prior
to issuing the notice.

Please contact David Kruse at [phone] or ([e-mail]) if you have any questions or
need assistance.

Sincerely,

Mark Berger
Monitoring and Standards Section Manager

Enclosure: Public Notice Template

cc: BONNER HARDGREE, FRUITLAND WATER SSD, [e-mail]
Cindy Austreng, TRICOUNY HEALTH DEPT, [e-mail]
Nathan Hall, P.E., DEQ District Engineer, [e-mail]
Mark Berger, Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]
David Kruse, Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]

Instructions for Monitoring Violations Annual Notice – Chemical Monitoring (Tier 3)

Template on Reverse

Since most monitoring violations are included in Tier 3, you must provide public notice to persons served
within one year after you learn of the violation (R309-220-7(2)). Multiple monitoring violations can be
serious, check with the Division of Drinking Water (801-536-4200) to make sure you meet the public
notification requirements.

Community systems must use one of the following (R309-220-7(3)(a)):

• Hand or direct delivery
• Mail, as a separate notice or included with the bill

Non-community systems must use one of the following (R309-220-7(3)(b)):

• Posting in conspicuous locations
• Hand delivery
• Mail

In addition, both community and non-community systems must use another method reasonably
calculated to reach others if they would not be reached by the first method (R309 -220-7(3)). Such
methods could include newspapers, e-mail, or delivery to community organizations. If you post the
notice, it must remain posted until the violation is resolved. If the violation has been resolved, you must
post the notice for at least one week (R309-220-7(2)). If you mail, post, or hand deliver, print your notice
on letterhead, if available.

The notice on the reverse is appropriate for insertion in an annual notice or the CCR, as long as public
notification timing and delivery requirements are met (R309-220-7(4)). You may need to modify the
template for a notice for individual monitoring violations. This example presents violations in a table;
however, you may write out an explanation for each violation if you wish. For any monitoring violation for
volatile organic compounds (VOCs) or other groups, you may list the group name in the table, but you
must provide the name of every chemical in the group on the notice, e.g., in a footnote.

You may need to modify the notice if you had any monitoring violations for which monitoring later showed
a maximum contaminant level or other violation. In such cases, you should refer to the public notice you
issued at that time.

Include in your notice the standard language for monitoring and testing procedure violations in italics
(R309-220-8(4)(b)). If you modify the notice, you may not alter this mandatory language.

Corrective Actions

In your notice, describe corrective actions you took or are taking. Listed below are some steps commonly
taken by water systems with monitoring violations. Choose the appropriate language, or develop your
own:

• We have since taken the required samples, as described in the last column of the table above.
The samples showed we are meeting drinking water standards.
• We have since taken the required samples, as described in the last column of the table above.
The sample for [contaminant] exceeded the limit. [Describe corrective action; use information
from public notice prepared for violating the limit.]
• We plan to take the required samples soon, as described in the last column of the table above.

After Issuing the Notice

Make sure to send the Division of Drinking Water (PO Box 144830, SLC, UT 84114-4830) a copy of each
type of notice and a certification that you have met all the public notice requirements within ten days after
issuing the notice (R309-105-16(3)).

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR DRINKING WATER
Monitoring Requirements Not Met for [System]

Our water system violated several drinking water standards over the past year. Even though
these were not emergencies, as our customers, you have a right to know what happened and
what we 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 [compliance period] we ['did not monitor or test' or 'did not complete all
monitoring or testing'] for [contaminant(s)] and therefore cannot be sure of the quality of our
drinking water during that time.

What should I do?

There is nothing you need to do at this time.

The table below lists the contaminant(s) we did not properly test for during the last year, how
often we are supposed to sample for [this contaminant/these contaminants] and how many
samples we are supposed to take, how many samples we took, when samples should have
been taken, and the date on which follow -up samples were (or will be) taken.

Contaminant

Required
sampling
frequency

Number of
samples
taken

When all samples
should have been
taken

When samples
were or will be
taken

VOCs1 (example)

1 sample every
three years

0

1996-1998

February 1999

What happened? What is being done?

[Describe corrective action.]

For more information, please contact [name of contact] at [phone number] or [mailing address].

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

This notice is being sent to you by [system]. Water System ID#: __________. Date distributed:

1VOCs, also known as volatile organic compounds, are tested by collecting one sample and testing
that sample for all the VOCs. VOCs are commonly used in industrial and manufacturing processes. VOCs
include benzene, carbon tetrachloride, chlorobenzene, 1,2-dichlorobenzene, 1,4-dichlorobenzene, 1,2-
dichloroethane, cis-dichloroethylene, trans-dichloroethylene, dichloromethane, 1,2-dichloropropane,
ethylbenzene, styrene, tetrachlorethylene, 1,1,1-trichloroethane, trichloroethylene, toluene, 1,2,4-
trichlorobenzene, 1,1-dichloroethylene, 1,1,2-trichloroethane, vinyl chloride, and xylene.