DDW-2024-007229

April 18, 2024
Amanda Buhler
Kane County WCD - Johnson Canyon
725 East Kaneplex Drive
Kanab, Utah 84741
Subject:Concurrence, Updated Drinking Water Source Protection Plan for the Johnson Canyon Well #1, KCWCD Canyon Well #2, and Johnson Canyon Well #4; Kane County WCD - Johnson Canyon;
Water System #13038, Source No. WS002, WS003, and WS004
Dear Amanda Buhler:
The Division of Drinking Water (the Division) received the updated Drinking Water Source Protection (DWSP) plan for the Johnson Canyon Well #1, KCWCD Canyon Well #2, and Johnson Canyon
Well #4 from your consultant, Dao Yang, P.E., with Sunrise Engineering, on November 7, 2022.
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 is December 31, 2028.
Note
A copy of the public education material that was distributed, and the date they were distributed, need to be included in each updated plan to fulfill the recordkeeping requirement. This
information shows that the water system is implementing land management strategies and not just saying they are going to. Please include this information in all future updates. 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
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 (13038) in your correspondence.
Sincerely,
Michael Newberry, P.E.
Permitting and Engineering Support Manager
NAZ/mrn/mdbcc:Jeremy Roberts, Southwest Utah Health Department, [e-mail] Yang, P.E., Sunrise Engineering, [e-mail] Buhler, Kane County WCD - Johnson
Canyon, [e-mail] Zorsky, P.G., Division of Drinking Water, [e-mail]
Paul Wright, P.E., DEQ District Engineer, [e-mail]
NZorsky 13038 WS002-004 Update Concur