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State of Utah

Department of Environmental Quality
Kimberly D. Shelley Executive Director DIVISION OF DRINKING WATER Nathan Lunstad, PhD, P.E. Director
SPENCER J. COX Governor DEIDRE HENDERSON Lieutenant Governor
September 4, 2024

Tony Spackman Canyon Meadows Mutual Water Company 460 East 800 North Orem, UT 84059
Subject: NOTICE OF VIOLATION – Canyon Meadows Mutual Water Company (#26069) Exceedance of Single CFE Turbidity Limit at Little Deer Creek WTP (TP001), May 2024
Dear Tony Spackman:
The Division of Drinking Water records indicate that Canyon Meadows Mutual Water Company (#26069) is in violation of the State of Utah Public Drinking Water Rule 309-215-9(1) as follows:
Canyon Meadows Mutual Water Company (#26069) is required to continuously monitor
for turbidity at the treatment plant’s combined filter effluent (CFE) or clearwell outlet. Canyon Meadows Mutual Water Company must report the maximum turbidity value for each 4-hour operational period in the monthly report, submitted by the 10th of the following month. The maximum value reported cannot exceed 1.0 NTU. On May 11,
2024, Canyon Meadows Mutual Water Company’s Little Deer Creek WTP May 2024 Water Treatment Operation Reports reported a CFE turbidity of 1.910 NTU. The Division of Drinking Water understands that this may have been a data entry error, but insufficient supporting information was available to validate a correction, due to a failure to
maintain continuous turbidity records. As the Division discussed with you during the August 21,
2024 sanitary survey, to resolve the A050 Deficiency that was previously assessed in the Division’s letter dated June 11, 2024, the system must begin maintaining adequate continuous turbidity records. The Utah Rural Water Association has indicated their availability to assist Canyon Meadows Mutual Water Company in addressing this issue.

The exceedance of the CFE turbidity limit of 1.0 NTU has resulted in the addition of 100 Improvement Priority System (IPS) points to your IPS report (R309-400-5) as summarized below.
Tony Spackman Page 2

• Violation type 43 (100 points) – System exceeds the single combined filter effluent limit of 1.0 NTU [309-215-9] (May 2024)
Return to compliance and removal of IPS points will be achieved by demonstrating seven months
of compliance through monthly Surface Water Treatment Reports. The following text was originally included in the Division’s letter dated June 11, 2024, and is replicated here.

Canyon Meadows Mutual Water Company (#26069) is required to keep sufficient records, either
electronically or in hard copy, to demonstrate effective treatment and compliance with all applicable surface water treatment rules. The absence of such records is a serious violation. The violations issued for December 2023 and February 2024 monthly reports to the Canyon Meadows
Mutual Water Company (#26069) indicate a pattern of insufficient record-keeping, and a
significant deficiency will be assessed. The deficiency is summarized below.

• Deficiency A050 (25 points) – Administrative Issues – Failure to maintain surface water treatment records as required by R309-215

This deficiency must be addressed within 30 days of the upcoming sanitary survey, which will be conducted in August 2024. To remove these deficiency points, Canyon Meadows Mutual Water Company (#26029) must provide documentation regarding the actions taken to ensure that records are maintained per rule requirements. General records retention requirements can be
found in R309-105-17, and records retention requirements specific to surface water treatment can
be found in R309-215-8 and R309-215-9. Record keeping requirements will be discussed at the time of the survey to assist Canyon Meadows Mutual Water Company (#26069) in determining the appropriate corrective actions to take. Documentation of the actions taken can be sent to [e-mail] at that time.
Additionally, because this is a Tier 2 violation, you must notify all consumers of the violation as soon as practical but within 30 days after you learn of the violation according to R309-220-7. This public notice requirement cannot be waived once a violation has occurred. Public notification must be designed to reach all users. Water systems are to use, at a minimum, one or
more of the following forms of delivery: broadcast media (such as radio and television), posting notice in a conspicuous location throughout the areas served by water system, hand delivery, or another delivery method approved in writing by the director. The public notice must be approved by the Division prior to its distribution. Please send the public notice draft for approval to Sarah Page at [e-mail]. A copy of the notice you send to each customer
must be provided to the Division ([e-mail]) within ten days after issuing the notice. Please refer to the enclosed example of a public notice. If this letter is in error, please send appropriate documentation to Sarah Page at [e-mail] as soon as possible within 30 days. This will remove the public notification requirement, but the
violation will not be resolved nor the IPS points removed until five months of satisfactory and timely reporting are complete.
Tony Spackman Page 3

Please contact Sarah Page at [phone] or [e-mail] if you have any questions or need assistance. Sincerely,
Mark Berger Monitoring and Standards Section Manager
Enclosure: Public notice template cc: Dwight Hill, Wasatch County Health Department, [e-mail] Julie Cobleigh, Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail] Mark Berger, Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail] Colt Smith, Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail] Jennifer Yee, Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail] Sarah Page, Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]