DDW-2024-007860

May 30, 2024
Chance Duane BaxterBear River WCD - Collinston Water System
102 West Forest Street
Brigham City, Utah 84302
Subject:Concurrence, Drinking Water Source Protection Plan for the Flat Canyon Well;
Bear River WCD - Collinston Water System; Water System #02079, Source No. WS003
Dear Chance Duane Baxter:
The Division of Drinking Water (the Division) received a combined Preliminary Evaluation Report (PER) and final Drinking Water Source Protection (DWSP) plan for the Flat Canyon Well
from your consultant, J. Lance Nielsen, P.E., with Hansen, Allen & Luce, Inc., on April 1, 2023. The Division requested additional information via email on April 7, 2023. Your consultant
provided additional information via email on August 3, 2023. The Division concurred with the PER and disapproved the DWSP Plan in a letter dated September 11, 2023. Your consultant provided
proof that a map of the zones was submitted to Box Elder County for coverage under their source protection ordinance on May 22, 2024.
We have completed our review of the DWSP plan, stamped and signed by J. Lance Nielsen, P.E., 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 plan. We commend you for establishing a program to protect this source 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, 2028.
Please be aware that the source protection zones for this source have 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 this source 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 Deidre Beck 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 (02079) in your correspondence.
Sincerely,
Michael Newberry, P.E.
Permitting and Engineering Support Section Manager
DLB/mrn/mdbcc:Grant Koford, Bear River Health Department, [e-mail]. Lance Nielsen, P.E., Hansen, Allen & Luce, Inc., [e-mail] Griggs, Hansen, Allen & Luce,
Inc., [e-mail] Duane Baxter, Bear River WCD, [e-mail] Beck, P.G., Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]
DBeck 02079 WS003 DWSP Concur