DDW-2024-006986

April 2, 2024
Daniel Lothamer
NPS - Bryce Canyon National Park
PO Box 640201
Bryce Canyon, Utah 84764-0201
Subject:Updated Drinking Water Source Protection Plan and Waiver Renewal Required for Well 1 (Upper) and Well 2 (Lower); Bryce Canyon National Park; System #09045, Source Numbers WS001
and WS002
Dear Daniel Lothamer:
The Division of Drinking Water (the Division) has not received updated Drinking Water Source Protection (DWSP) plans for Well 1 (Upper) and Well 2 (Lower), which were required by December
31, 2016. Deficiencies (SP04 ACTIVE SOURCE LACKS APPROVED UPDATES TO DWSP) were added to the Division’s database and ten (10) Improvement Priority System (IPS) points assigned (5 points
per source).
Well 1 (Upper) and Well 2 (Lower), part of grouped sampling station SS929, currently have monitoring reduction use waivers for pesticides and volatile organic contaminants (VOCs). Currently
pesticide sampling is not required, and VOC monitoring is required once every six (6) years. According to R309-600-13(2), if a source's DWSP plan is due and is not submitted to the Division,
its use and susceptibility waivers for the VOC and pesticide parameter groups will expire. Use and susceptibility waivers must be renewed every six years with your updated source protection
plan. Because the Division has not received an updated DWSP plan or signed waiver statement, these sources are no longer eligible for use waivers. Please submit an updated DWSP plan
and signed waiver statement (attached) within 90 days, or your waivers will lapse, and your monitoring schedule will change. Guidance for preparing the updated DWSP plan can be found
online at https://deq.utah.gov/drinking-water/preparing-source-protection-plans.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 submission 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 Deidre Beck at [phone] or via email at [e-mail] if you have questions about the source protection requirements. Contact David Kruse at [phone] or via email
at [e-mail] if you have any questions about your current monitoring schedule.To help us serve you more efficiently, please use the water system number (09045) in your correspondence.
Sincerely,
Michael Newberry, P.E.
Permitting and Engineering Support Manager
DLB/DK/mrn/mdb
Attachment:Use Waiver applicationcc:Jeremy Roberts, Southwest Utah Health Department, [e-mail] Lothamer, Bryce Canyon National Park, [e-mail]
Beck, P.G., Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]. Paul Wright, P.E., DEQ District Engineer, [e-mail] Kruse, Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]
DBeck 09045 WS001 WS002 Update Required
Use Waiver Application for:
Name of Water System:
Name of Drinking Water Source(s):
I, , Designated Person (per R309-600) for theWater System, hereby state that none of the volatile organic chemicals and/or pesticides within the respective parameter groups have been
used in, disposed of, stored in, transported through, or manufactured within protection zones one, two or three (or within the management area, if applicable) in the last five years.
Signature:
Date:
Note: if applicable, you must provide a list of the chemicals used in, disposed of, stored in, transported through, or manufactured within protection zones one, two or three where the
use of such chemicals within the volatile organic chemicals and/or pesticide parameter groups is likely.
In general, the presence of residences or roads (other than very limited use roads) through zones one, two or three implies that pesticides and volatile organic chemicals are used, and
a use waiver in those cases would not be granted.