DDW-2025-001675

195 North 1950 West • Salt Lake City, UT
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 144830 • Salt Lake City, UT 84114-4830
Telephone [phone] • Fax [phone] • T.D.D. [phone]
www.deq.utah.gov
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State of Utah

SPENCER J. COX
Governor

DEIDRE HENDERSON
Lieutenant Governor
Department of
Environmental Quality

Kimberly D. Shelley
Executive Director

DIVISION OF DRINKING WATER
Nathan Lunstad, Ph.D., P.E.
Director
January 27, 2025

Bret Nicholson
Lincoln Culinary Water Assn
1631 East Pine Canyon Road
Pine Canyon, Utah 84074

Subject: NOTICE OF VIOLATION – Failure to Monitor Distribution System Chlorine Residuals,
Lincoln Culinary Water Assn UTAH23009

Dear Bret Nicholson:

Our records indicate that Lincoln Culinary Water Assn is in violation of the State of Utah Public Drinking
Water Rules as follows:

As a system that disinfects or purchases disinfected water, Lincoln Culinary Water Assn is required to take
a minimum of 12 chlorine residuals per month in the distribution system per Rule R309-105-10(1)(c).
Disinfectant residual results for this system were not reported to the Division of Drinking Water (DDW)
for the October 1st, 2024, to December 31st, 2024, compliance period.

In accordance with Rule R309-400, failure to take these samples and report them to DDW has resulted in
the addition of 15 Improvement Priority System (IPS) points to this water system’s IPS report for every
month that the Division did not receive chlorine residual data. These violations and associated points can
be resolved by collecting and reporting the required residual data in a future quarter.

Lincoln Culinary Water Assn staff must notify all the water system’s consumers of this violation within
one year after notification of this violation (see R309-220-7). Refer to the enclosed example of a public
notice. A copy of the notice sent to the system’s consumers must be forwarded to the Division of Drinking
Water
Bret Nicholson
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1/27/2025

([e-mail]) within ten days after issuing the notice (see R309-105-16(2). Failure to provide the
required public notification within one year will result in the addition of five points to this system’s IPS
report.

If the distribution system chlorine residual sampling has been completed for the compliance period above,
please contact the Division to resolve this issue. Attached is an informational sheet that describes how
water system staff can submit chlorine residual data online. Please contact Luke Treutel at [phone]
or [e-mail] if you have any questions or need assistance regarding this notice. Thank you for your
efforts to maintain safe drinking water.

Sincerely,
Mark Berger
Monitoring and Standards Section Manager

Enclosure –
3-Quarterly Notice-Chlorine Monitoring
Distribution System Chlorine Residuals

cc: Bret Nicholson, Lincoln Culinary Water Assn, [e-mail]
Bryan Slade, Tooele County Health Department
Luke Treutel, Utah Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]

Instructions for Monitoring Violations Annual Notice – Chemical Monitoring (Tier 3)

Template on Reverse

Since most monitoring violations are included in Tier 3, you must provide public notice to persons served
within one year after you learn of the violation (R309-220-7(2)). Multiple monitoring violations can be
serious, check with the Division of Drinking Water (801-536-4200) to make sure you meet the public
notification requirements.

Community systems must use one of the following (R309-220-7(3)(a)):

 Hand or direct delivery
 Mail, as a separate notice or included with the bill

Non-community systems must use one of the following (R309-220-7(3)(b)):

 Posting in conspicuous locations
 Hand delivery
 Mail

In addition, both community and non-community systems must use another method reasonably
calculated to reach others if they would not be reached by the first method (R309-220-7(3)). Such
methods could include newspapers, e-mail, or delivery to community organizations. If you post the
notice, it must remain posted until the violation is resolved. If the violation has been resolved, you must
post the notice for at least one week (R309-220-7(2)). If you mail, post, or hand deliver, print your notice
on letterhead, if available.

The notice on the reverse is appropriate for insertion in an annual notice or the CCR, as long as public
notification timing and delivery requirements are met (R309-220-7(4)). You may need to modify the
template for a notice for individual monitoring violations. This example presents violations in a table;
however, you may write out an explanation for each violation if you wish. For any monitoring violation for
volatile organic compounds (VOCs) or other groups, you may list the group name in the table, but you
must provide the name of every chemical in the group on the notice, e.g., in a footnote.

You may need to modify the notice if you had any monitoring violations for which monitoring later showed
a maximum contaminant level or other violation. In such cases, you should refer to the public notice you
issued at that time.

Include in your notice the standard language for monitoring and testing procedure violations in italics
(R309-220-8(4)(b)). If you modify the notice, you may not alter this mandatory language.

Corrective Actions

In your notice, describe corrective actions you took or are taking. Listed below are some steps commonly
taken by water systems with monitoring violations. Choose the appropriate language, or develop your
own:

 We have since taken the required samples, as described in the last column of the table above.
The samples showed we are meeting drinking water standards.
 We have since taken the required samples, as described in the last column of the table above.
The sample for [contaminant] exceeded the limit. [Describe corrective action; use information
from public notice prepared for violating the limit.]
 We plan to take the required samples soon, as described in the last column of the table above.

After Issuing the Notice

Make sure to send the Division of Drinking Water (PO Box 144830, SLC, UT 84114-4830) a copy of each
type of notice and a certification that you have met all the public notice requirements within ten days after
issuing the notice (R309-105-16(3)).

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR DRINKING WATER
Monitoring Requirements Not Met for [System]

Our water system violated several drinking water standards over the past year. Even though
these were not emergencies, as our customers, you have a right to know what happened and
what we did to correct these situations.

We are required to monitor your drinking water for specific contaminants on a regular basis.
Results of regular monitoring are an indicator of whether or not our drinking water meets health
standards. During [compliance period] we ['did not monitor or test' or 'did not complete all
monitoring or testing'] for [contaminant(s)] and therefore cannot be sure of the quality of our
drinking water during that time.

What should I do?

There is nothing you need to do at this time.

The table below lists the contaminant(s) we did not properly test for during the last year, how
often we are supposed to sample for this contaminant and how many samples we are supposed
to take, how many samples we took, when samples should have been taken, and the date on
which follow-up samples were (or will be) taken.

Contaminant

Required
sampling
frequency

Number of
samples
taken

When all samples
should have been
taken

When samples
were or will be
taken Chlorine Residual Levels
in Distribution system
12 readings
every month

0 January – March,
2024
PWS EDIT THIS
FIELD

What happened? What is being done?

[Describe corrective action.]

For more information, please contact [name of contact] at [phone number] or [mailing address].

Please share this information with all the other people who drink this water, especially those who
may not have received this notice directly (for example, people in apartments, nursing homes,
schools, and businesses). You can do this by posting this notice in a public place or distributing
copies by hand or mail.

This notice is being sent to you by [system]. Water System ID#: __________. Date distributed:
1/1/2025 - This is a brief overview of the rule and does not serve as a substitute for actual rule language
DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
CHLORINE RESIDUALS &
CHLORINATOR REPORTS

Quarterly Treatment Reports are required to be sent to the
Division of Drinking Water (DDW), per R309-105-10(1).
The quarterly report has three main components:
1.Disinfection byproduct sample results
2.Chlorine residual results from the distribution
system
3.Operational data (rotameter/pump settings,
volume of water treated, chlorine residuals at the
point of entry, etc.)
Quarterly Reporting
Disinfection
Byproducts (DBP) Chlorine Residual Summary Operational Data
Spreadsheet**
Ask your lab to submit the
data electronically
Or email to
[e-mail]
Submit distribution system chlorine
residual averages online at
MRDL.utah.gov
Download Operational Report
and submit to MRDL.utah.gov form at the same time as chlorine residual summary
** Systems that purchase chlorinated water but do not add additional disinfectant do not need to report operational data.
Failure to submit a quarterly report will result in a violation and 15 IPS points for each month of
missing data. (R309-400-3)
Applies
to:
Water systems that chlorinate
or purchase chlorinated water
How many residuals should I be taking?
All disinfecting systems, or systems purchasing
disinfected water, must sample a minimum of 3
chlorine residuals within the distribution
system per week, at least 12 per month.
Each time you sample for coliform bacteria you
should also be taking a chlorine residual test. The
coliform sample residuals can count towards your
system’s total distribution residual requirement.
When do I submit quarterly reports? 
Within 10 days after the end of
each quarter
Quarter Quarter Quarter Quarter
April July October January
How do I report monthly chlorine residuals?
Navigate to MRDL.utah.gov in your web browser.
Click on “Chlorine Report Submission”
For more information please contact the DBP Rule Manager, Luke Treutel at [phone] or [e-mail]
All report templates and links are available on the DDW Website at
https://deq.utah.gov/drinking-water/resources-and-requirements-for-disinfecting-systems.
1/1/2025 - This is a brief overview of the rule and does not serve as a substitute
for actual rule language.
1.Enter your name and email address
When you’ve finished submitting your residuals this
address will receive a confirmation email
2.Enter your system number: UTAH#####
Begin typing the system name or number and thenselect the system from the drop down that appears.
No spaces between UTAH and the FIVE DIGIT number
3.Select the reporting year
4.Select the reporting quarter
5.Enter the number of samples taken for eachmonth (minimum of 12 for compliance)
6.Enter the average sample results of the chlorine
residuals taken for each month
Click to indicate when the data was collected
7.Select 'Yes' If the water system operates one ormore chlorinatorsSelect 'No' if the system only purchases chlorinated water
8.After selecting 'Yes', upload your reports usingthe 'Choose File' button(s)
9.Carefully review the entire report
10. Certify and add your initials or signature beforeclicking 'Submit'
11.If you made any mistakes or need to change thesubmission, contact the DBP Rule Manager
For more information please contact the DBP Rule Manager,
Luke Treutel at [phone] or [e-mail]
CHLORINE REPORT INSTRUCTIONS
STEP 1: CHLORINE RESIDUAL SUMMARY STEP 2: CHLORINATOR REPORTS & SUBMITTAL