DDW-2024-007753

May 22, 2024
Travis Blackburn
Axtell Community Service Distribution
PO Box 21093
Axtell, Utah 84621
Subject:Updated Drinking Water Source Protection Plan and Waiver Renewal Required for the Michaelson Spring; Axtell Community Service Distribution; Water System #20051, Source No. WS001
Dear Travis Blackburn:
The Division of Drinking Water (the Division) has not received an updated Drinking Water Source Protection (DWSP) plan for the Michaelson Spring, which was required by December 31, 2017.
A deficiency (SP04 ACTIVE SOURCE LACKS APPROVED UPDATES TO DWSP) was previously added to the Division’s database and five (5) Improvement Priority System (IPS) points assigned.
The Michaelson Spring currently has monitoring reduction use waivers for pesticides and volatile organic contaminants (VOCs), which means that pesticide monitoring is not required and
VOC monitoring is only required once every six (6) years. According to R309-600-13(2), if a source's DWSP plan is due and is not submitted to the Division, its use and susceptibility
waivers for the VOC and pesticide parameter groups will expire. Use and susceptibility waivers must be renewed every six years with your updated source protection plan. Because the Division
has not received an updated DWSP plan or signed waiver statement, this source is no longer eligible for use waivers for pesticides or VOCs. Please submit an updated DWSP plan and a signed
waiver statement (attached) within 90 days, or your waivers will lapse, and your monitoring schedule will change. Guidance for preparing the updated DWSP plan can be found online at
https://deq.utah.gov/drinking-water/preparing-source-protection-plans.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 submission 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
Deidre Beck at [phone] or via email at [e-mail] if you have questions about the source protection requirements. Contact David Kruse at [phone] or via email at [e-mail]
if you have any questions about your current monitoring schedule.To help us serve you more efficiently, please use the water system number (20051) in your correspondence.
Sincerely,
Michael Newberry, P.E.
Permitting and Engineering Support Manager
DLB/dk/mrn/mdb
Attachment:Use Waiver applicationcc:Eric Larsen, Central Utah Health Department, [e-mail] Blackburn, Axtell Community Service Distribution, [e-mail]
Beck, P.G., Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]
John Chartier, P.E., DEQ District Engineer, [e-mail]
David Kruse, Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]
DBeck 20051 WS001 Update Required
Use Waiver Application for:
Name of Water System:
Name of Drinking Water Source(s):
I, , Designated Person (per R309-600) for theWater System, hereby state that none of the volatile organic chemicals and/or pesticides within the respective parameter groups have been
used in, disposed of, stored in, transported through, or manufactured within protection zones one, two or three (or within the management area, if applicable) in the last five years.
Signature:
Date:
Note: if applicable, you must provide a list of the chemicals used in, disposed of, stored in, transported through, or manufactured within protection zones one, two or three where the
use of such chemicals within the volatile organic chemicals and/or pesticide parameter groups is likely.
In general, the presence of residences or roads (other than very limited use roads) through zones one, two or three implies that pesticides and volatile organic chemicals are used, and
a use waiver in those cases would not be granted.