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State of Utah

SPENCER J. COX
Governor

DEIDRE HENDERSON
Lieutenant Governor

Department of
Environmental Quality

Kimberly D. Shelley
Executive Director

DIVISION OF DRINKING WATER
Nathan Lunstad P.E.
Director

February 13, 2024

Katherine Munns
Portage Town Water System
PO Box 4
Portage, UT 84331

Subject: Emergency Source Designation for Portage Town Water System; UTAH02012

Katherine Munns:

It was recently discovered that the 1978 Well (identified as WS003) does not combine with the
South Canyon Spring (WS001) and the Upper Spring (WS004) prior to entering the Portage Town
Water System’s distribution system. In accordance with R309-205, this source is now required to
be sampled independently as a separate point of entry.

In January 2024 you informed the Division of Drinking Water (the Division) that the 1978 Well
(WS003) acts solely as an emergency source, and that it had only been used twice within the past
ten years. Given this, you requested that the Division designate the 1978 Well (WS003) as an
emergency source. Emergency sources are only required to complete a full suite of source analysis
once every nine years, and shall only be used in the event of an actual emergency.

This source has not been tested independently since 2013. For this reason, before the 1978 Well
(WS003) can be designated and utilized as an emergency source, the system must collect the
following samples by July 31, 2024:

Facility with new
requirements Analyte(s) Required # of
samples
Sampling
Frequency
Next Due
Date
Rule
Reference
WS003 1978 Well Inorganics & Metals 1 Every Nine
Years 07/31/2024 R309-205-
5(3)(a)
Nitrate 1 Every Nine
Years 07/31/2024 R309-205-
5(4)(a)
Sulfate, Sodium, TDS 1 Every Nine
Years 07/31/2024 R309-205-
5(3)(a)
Katherine Munns
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February 13, 2024

Pesticides 1 Every Nine
Years 07/31/2024 R309-205-
6(1)(d)
Radionuclides 1 Every Nine
Years 07/31/2024 R309-205-
7(1)(b)
Volatile Organic
Contaminants 1 Every Nine
Years 07/31/2024 R309-205-
6(2)
BacT 1 One Time 07/31/2024

Please label samples collected from the 1978 Well as WS003 on all laboratory paperwork. Once
the sample results have been received, the routine monitoring frequency for this source will be one
sample, for each of the analytes listed above, every nine years. Please contact David Kruse at 385-
566-7789 or [e-mail] with any questions or concerns about the sampling requirements
given above.

Sincerely,

Mark Berger
Monitoring and Standards - Implementation Manager

cc: Katherine Munns, Portage Town Water System, [e-mail]
Grant Koford, Bear River Health Department, [e-mail]
Mark Berger, Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]
David Kruse, Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]