DDW-2025-003642

April 18, 2025
Vickie B Houston
Sigurd Town Water System
PO Box 570064
Sigurd, Utah 84657
Subject:Concurrence, Updated Drinking Water Source Protection Plans for the listed sources; Sigurd Town Water System; Water System #21016
Dear Vickie B Houston:
The Division of Drinking Water (the Division) received the updated Drinking Water Source Protection (DWSP) plan for the Pumped Well from your consultant, Travis Gadd with Ensign Engineering,
on November 8, 2023. The Division also received the updated plan for the listed spring sources from your consultant, Megan Jensen with RWAU, on March 12, 2025.
We have completed our review of the updated DWSP plans and find that the plans basically comply with the applicable portions of Utah’s Administrative Rules for Public Drinking Water
Systems. The Division concurs with these updated plans. We commend you for establishing a program to protect these sources from present and future contamination. These plans must be
updated often enough to ensure that they reflect current conditions in your protection zones.
The due date for submitting the next updated plan for your wells is December 31, 2028.
The due date for submitting the next updated plan for your springs is December 31, 2029.
Important Notice for Pump Well (WS002)
The implementation documentation that was provided in the updated plan for WS002 only meets the requirements of a public notification letter by informing readers that the updated DWSP
plan is available for review. This does not meet implementation requirements. Implementation programs that use public education should provide targeted best practice information to specific
uncontrolled potential contamination sources. For example, if you have septic system owners in your protection zones, distributing fact sheets that clearly explain best management practices
for septic systems would be an acceptable management strategy. You can find a variety of applicable fact sheets on the DDW source protection webpage.
In future updates, please distribute targeted best management practice information, not general public notification language, to avoid your updates from being disapproved. 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.
Monitoring Reduction Waivers
Your request for a renewal of your use waivers for volatile organic contaminants (VOCs) and pesticides has been granted. Your sampling schedule remains the same.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. Contact David Kruse at [phone] or via email at [e-mail]
if you have any questions about your monitoring schedule. To help us serve you more efficiently, please use the water system number (21016) in your correspondence.
Sincerely,
Michael Newberry, P.E.
Permitting and Engineering Support Manager
NAZ/mrn/mdbcc:Eric Larsen, Central Utah Health Department, [e-mail] Gadd, Ensign Engineering, [e-mail] Jensen, RWAU, [e-mail]
B Houston, Sigurd Town Water System, [e-mail] Zorsky, P.G., Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]
John Chartier, P.E., DEQ District Engineer, [e-mail]
NZorsky 21016 Sources Update Concur