DDW-2024-006450

March 7, 2024
Jed Grant Woodward
Newton Town Water System
PO Box 146
Newton, Utah 84327
Subject:Concurrence, Updated Drinking Water Source Protection Plan for the Buttars Spring and Loosle Spring; Newton Town Water System; Water System #03013, Source No. WS004 and WS005
Dear Jed Grant Woodward:
The Division of Drinking Water (the Division) received the updated Drinking Water Source Protection (DWSP) plan for the Buttars Spring and Loosle Spring from your consultant, Jason Biesinger,
P.E. with Hansen, Allen & Luce, Inc., on February 14, 2024.
We have completed our review of the updated DWSP plan and find that the plan basically complies with the applicable portions of Utah’s Administrative Rules for Public Drinking Water
Systems. The Division concurs with this updated plan. We commend you for establishing a program to protect these sources from present and future contamination. This plan must be updated
often enough to ensure that it reflects current conditions in your protection zones.
The due date for submitting the next updated plan is December 31, 2029.
Please be aware that the revised source protection zones for these sources have now been incorporated into the Division’s Geographic Information System (GIS) database. In addition, these
zones should now appear on the Utah Environmental Interactive Map, so long as this system is currently classified as Public in the Division’s database. The Utah Environmental Interactive
Map can be accessed by visiting enviro.deq.utah.gov. We encourage you to visit the map to confirm that the location of these sources and the source protection zones are accurate. If
you need assistance with navigating the map or to report any discrepancies, please call [phone] and ask to speak to source protection staff.RemindersAs stated in R309-600 and
605: Implementing DWSP Plans - Each Public Water System (PWS) shall begin implementing each of its DWSP Plans in accordance with the implementation schedule within 180 days after submittal
if the plan is not disapproved. Be prepared to describe these efforts in your next update, which should include documentation of how the land management strategies identified for existing
and future potential contamination sources were implemented. Your updated plan will be disapproved, and 25 Improvement Priority System (IPS) points will be assigned for failure to comply
with this requirement.As stated in R309-600 and 605: Recordkeeping - As a DWSP Plan is executed, the PWS shall document any land management strategies that are implemented. Please provide
actual copies of memoranda of understanding, public education programs, bill stuffers, newsletters, or other correspondence documenting the implementation of each land management strategy
as it occurs, in this section of your updated plan.Please contact Noah Zorsky at [phone] or via email at [e-mail] if you have questions or concerns about the review of
your DWSP plan. To help us serve you more efficiently, please use the water system number (03013) in your correspondence.
Sincerely,
Michael Newberry, P.E.
Permitting and Engineering Support Section Manager
NAZ/mrn/mdbcc:Ben Harker, Bear River Health Department, [e-mail]
Grant Koford, Bear River Health Department, [e-mail] Biesinger, P.E., Hansen, Allen & Luce, Inc., [e-mail] Woodward, Newton Town Water System, [e-mail]
Zorsky, P.G., Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]
NZorksy 03013 WS004 WS005 Update Concur