DDW-2024-008138

June 10, 2024
Daniel P Thornton
Paunsaugunt Cliffs SSD
PO Box 620
Hatch, Utah 84735
Subject:Concurrence, Updated Drinking Water Source Protection Plan for the Paunsaugunt Well; Paunsaugunt Cliffs SSD; Water System #09085, Source No. WS001
Dear Daniel P Thornton:
The Division of Drinking Water (the Division) received the updated Drinking Water Source Protection (DWSP) plan for the Paunsaugunt Well from you on December 16, 2022.
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 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.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.
Monitoring Reduction Waivers
The Paunsaugunt Well was approved for a use waiver in 2009. For water systems to keep their monitoring reduction waivers they must re-evaluate and submit a new waiver form with every
updated DWSP plan. No waiver was included with this update for waiver renewal. If no signed use waiver form is submitted within 90 days of this letter, the waivers will lapse and your
monitoring schedule will change.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 (09085) in your correspondence.
Sincerely,
Michael Newberry, P.E.
Permitting and Engineering Support Manager
NAZ/mrn/mdbcc:Jeremy Roberts, Southwest Utah Health Department, [e-mail] Thornton, Paunsaugunt Cliffs SSD, [e-mail] Zorsky, P.G., Division of Drinking
Water, [e-mail]
Paul Wright, P.E., DEQ District Engineer, [e-mail]
NZorsky 09085 WS001 Update Concur