DDW-2025-004838

May 28, 2025
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Robert Craig Hawkes
Howell Town Water System
PO Box 1011
Howell, Utah 84316
[e-mail]
Subject:Concurrence, Updated Drinking Water Source Protection Plan for the Hillside Springs and 2000 Well; Howell Town Water System; Water System #02017, Source No. WS004 and WS005
Dear Robert Craig Hawkes:
The Division of Drinking Water (the Division) received the updated Drinking Water Source Protection (DWSP) plan for the 2000 Well and Hillside Springs from your consultant, Megan Jensen
with the Rural Water Association of Utah, on November 30, 2023, and January 29, 2025, respectively.
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. The Division concurs with this updated plan. We commend you for establishing a program to protect these sources 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 for your well is December 31, 2028.
The due date for submitting the next updated plan for your spring is December 31, 2029.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 susceptibility waivers for volatile organic contaminants (VOCs) and pesticides has been granted for 2000 Well (WS005). Your sampling schedule remains
the same.
Your request for a renewal of your use waivers for volatile organic contaminants (VOCs) and pesticides has been granted for Hillside Springs (WS004). Your sampling schedule remains the
same.Please contact Noah Zorsky, P.G., at [phone] or via email at [e-mail] 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 (02017)
in your correspondence.
Sincerely,
Michael Newberry, P.E.
Permitting and Engineering SupportManager
NAZ/mrn/mdbcc:Grant Koford, Bear River Health Department, [e-mail] Jensen, RWAU, [e-mail] Craig Hawkes, Howell Town Water System, [e-mail],
[e-mail] Zorsky, P.G., Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]
NZorsky 02017 WS004 WS005 Update Concur