DDW-2024-012635

October 29, 2024
Tim Dotson
Harmony Farms Water Users
P.O. Box 609
New Harmony, Utah 84757
Subject:Concurrence, Updated Drinking Water Source Protection Plan for the Harmony Farm #2 and Well No1 - Repl; Harmony Farms Water Users; Water System #27079, Source No. WS002 and WS003
Dear Tim Dotson:
The Division of Drinking Water (the Division) received the updated Drinking Water Source Protection (DWSP) plan for Harmony Farm #2 and Well No 1 - Repl from your consultant, Justin
Christensen with Ensign Engineering, on December 30, 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 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, 2028.
Important Note
Your public education letters failed to include language that targeted property owners with septic systems within the protection zones. You agreed to manage these inadequately controlled
pollution sources by distributing public education on best management practices. In future updates, include language on septic systems in your public education letters to avoid plan
disapproval. 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 (27079) in your correspondence.
Sincerely,
Michael Newberry, P.E.
Permitting and Engineering Support Manager
NAZ/mrn/mdbcc:Jeremy Roberts, Southwest Utah Health Department, [e-mail] Christensen, P.E., Ensign Engineering, [e-mail] Dotson, Harmony Farms
Water Users, [e-mail] Cragun, Harmony Farms Water Users, [e-mail] Zorsky, P.G., Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]
Paul Wright, P.E., DEQ District Engineer, [e-mail]
NZorsky 27079 WS002 WS003 Update Concur