DDW-2025-002206

March 7, 2025
Travis E Anderson
Jones Hole National Fish Hatchery
1380 South 2350 West
Vernal, Utah 84078
Subject:ConditionalConcurrence, Updated Drinking Water Source Protection Plan for the Jones Hole Fish Hatchery Springs (WS001);Temporary Exception Granted to R309-600-13(2)(d); Jones
Hole National Fish Hatchery; Water System #24050, Source No. WS001
This Temporary Exception expires on December 31, 2029.
Dear Travis E Anderson:
The Division of Drinking Water (the Division) received the updated Drinking Water Source Protection (DWSP) plan for the Jones Hole Fish Hatchery Springs from you on September 17, 2024.
Division staff requested additional information via email on February 18, 2025, regarding the implementation of conditional concurrence requirements. You provided the requested information
on February 19, 2025.
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, with the exception of Rule R309-600-13(2)(d). The Division conditionally concurs with this updated plan, provided that the condition explained below is addressed.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, 2029.
Condition
The public water system must implement the conditions explained below and report compliance
before the spring can receive updated DWSP plan concurrence:
On September 20, 2024, the Division of Drinking Water (the Division) received your request for
a temporary exception renewal to R309-600-13(2)(d) - Land Use Agreements, Letters of Intent, or Zoning Ordinances for the portions of zone two which are not owned by the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service. You indicated in your plan that the process of collecting signatures from each of
the entities, i.e. the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Forest Service
and the State of Utah, began in early June 2018. Land use agreements on publicly owned lands
need not be recorded in the county recorder’s office; however, a signed statement from the
administrator is generally required.
You were unable to collect the signatures prior to submittal of the plan and therefore requested
that the land use agreement requirement be waived. A temporary exception to R309-600-13(2)(d) - Land Use Agreements, Letters of Intent, or Zoning Ordinancesis hereby granted, with the
following stipulation:
While a signed statement from each administrator will not be required, please provide proof that
each of the landowners located within zone two have received the following:
1. A map of the DWSP zones for the Jones Hole Fish Hatchery Springs; and,
2. A request that they not allow the location of pollution sources within zone two, unless
design standards are implemented to prevent contaminated discharges.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, P.G., 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 (24050) in your correspondence.
Sincerely,
Russell Seeley, P.E.
Assistant Director
NAZ/mrn/Admin (processing)/Admin (mailing) [Initials]cc:Joe Hadlock, Tri-County Health Department, [e-mail] Anderson, Jones Hole National Fish Hatchery, [e-mail]
Wandersee, P.E., USFWS Project Engineer, [e-mail] Zorsky, P.G., Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]
Nathan Hall, P.E., Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]
NZorsky 24050 WS001 Update Conditional Concur