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Trenton Town Corporation
2021 Drinking Water Quality Report

We are pleased to present this year’s Annual Water Quality Report (Consumer Confidence Report)
as required by the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). This report is designed to provide details
about where your water comes from, what is contains, and how it compares to standards set by
regulatory agencies. This report is a snapshot of last year’s water quality. If you have any
questions about this report or concerning your water utility, please contact Rachelle Ludwinski at
435-764-2487. If you want to learn more, please attend any of our regularly scheduled meetings.
They are held on the 1st Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm at the Trenton Town Hall.
Protect Our Water Resources
The Drinking Water Source Protection Plan for Trenton Town Corporation is available for your
review. It contains information about source protection zones, potential contamination sources and
management strategies to protect our drinking water. We have developed management strategies
to protect our sources from contamination. Please contact us if you have questions or concerns
about our source protection plan.
By design, our water sources are protected from contaminates. However we all need to take
precautions to prevent the water in our homes from accidentally becoming contaminated. Have
you ever left a running garden hose dipped in your swimming pool or horse trough? Do you spray
your plants with an herbicides-filled sprayer hooked to your garden hose? These are both examples
of cross-connections.
A cross-connection is an actual or potential connection between potable (drinking) water and non-
potable water or hazardous material (soapy water, pool water, pesticide, etc.), which can
contaminate your drinking water if backflow occurs. Backflow is an undesirable flow of water or
other items back into the pipe, hose or faucet rather than flowing to the intended point.
If the water pressure in your house drops (this can be caused by nearby firefighting or water main
break), it can cause the hose to suck water in. Anything that’s connected to your hose (be it liquid,
solid or gas) can flow back (“backflow”) into the distributing pipes and into your drinking water
supply.
Backflow can be prevented by using an attachment on your hose or faucet called a backflow-
prevention device. A hose bib vacuum breaker installed on the outdoor spigot will also work. The
simplest prevention system is an air gap, which is a physical separation between the pipes, or a gap
between where the water comes out of the pipe/hose and where the water pools. Simply don’t let
the hose sit inside the swimming pool or horse trough.

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Should a cross-connection occur, it will affect you and your family first. If you’d like to learn more
about helping to protect the quality of our water, call us for further information about ways you can
help.
Test Results
Trenton Town Corporation routinely monitors for constituents in our drinking water in accordance
with the Federal and Utah State laws. The following table shows the results of our monitoring for
the period of January 1st to December 31st, 2020. All drinking water, including bottled drinking
water, may be reasonably expected to contain at least small amounts of some constituents. It's
important to remember that the presence of these constituents does not necessarily pose a health
risk.

In the following table you will find many terms and abbreviations you might not be familiar with. To
help you better understand these terms we've provided the following definitions:
Non-Detects (ND) - laboratory analysis indicates that the constituent is not present.
ND/Low - High - For water systems that have multiple sources of water, the Utah Division of Drinking
Water has given water systems the option of listing the test results of the constituents in one table, instead of
multiple tables. To accomplish this, the lowest and highest values detected in the multiple sources are
recorded in the same space in the report table.
Parts per million (ppm) or Milligrams per liter (mg/l) - one part per million corresponds to one minute
in two years or a single penny in $10,000.
Parts per billion (ppb) or Micrograms per liter (ug/l) - one part per billion corresponds to one minute
in 2,000 years, or a single penny in $10,000,000.
Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) - The “Maximum Allowed” (MCL) is the highest level of a
contaminant that is allowed in drinking water. MCLs are set as close to the MCLGs as feasible using the best
available treatment technology.
Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) - The “Goal”(MCLG) is the level of a contaminant in drinking
water below which there is no known or expected risk to health. MCLGs allow for a margin of safety.
Maximum Residual Disinfectant Level (MRDL) - The highest level of a disinfectant allowed in drinking
water. There is convincing evidence that addition of a disinfectant is necessary for control of microbial
contaminants.
Maximum Residual Disinfectant Level Goal (MRDLG) - The level of a drinking water disinfectant below
which there is no known or expected risk to health. MRDLGs do not reflect the benefits of the use of
disinfectants to control microbial contaminants.
Date- Because of required sampling time frames i.e. yearly, 3 years, 4 years and 6 years, sampling dates
may seem out-dated.

If present, elevated levels of lead can cause serious health problems, especially for pregnant women
and young children. Lead in drinking water is primarily from materials and components associated
with service lines and home plumbing. Trenton Town Corporation is responsible for providing high
quality drinking water, but cannot control the variety of materials used in plumbing components.
When your water has been sitting for several hours, you can minimize the potential for lead
exposure by flushing your tap for 30 seconds to 2 minutes before using water for drinking or
cooking. If you are concerned about lead in your water, you may wish to have your water tested.
Information on lead in drinking water, testing methods, and steps you can take to minimize
exposure is available from the safe Drinking Water Hotline or at
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/lead.