11/3/2024
WT Staff
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November 3, 2024 942 am EST
Amsterdam water shut down and BWA
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Mongomery County: The City of Amsterdam issued a BWA following a water shutdown Friday. The service disruption and restored service with BWA are impacting connections on Florida Avenue from Broadway to Dead End in Mudge Hollow, as well as water customers on Daniel Street with city water access. City of Amsterdam Water supplies a residential population of over twenty thousand from a surface water source. From the 2023 Annual Water Quality Report, "The City of Amsterdam receives its' water supply from three impounding reservoirs at the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in Saratoga County. The total capacity is 10 million gallons servicing a broader community of approximately 21,000 people. Currently, the system's water demand is approximately 5.4 million gallons per average day. Upon entering a 24-inch pipe, the water is screened, metered, and disinfected with chlorine dioxide. The raw water then travels through 15 miles of pipe to the City of Amsterdam."
EPA Enforcement and Compliance History has the facility noted with non-compliance in 9 of the last 12 reporting quarters, the treatment technique under Lead and Copper Rule was at issue here for a short time in spring 2022, the matter has been addressed. The last sanitary survey was carried out by NYS in July 2023 with recommendations made in all applicable categories, including data verification, distribution, management-operation, operator compliance, pumps, source, financial and treatment.
See EPA - SDWA Compliance Report for NYS, October 2024, here.
See prior quarter EPA - SDWA Compliance Report for NYS, July 2024, here.
Voluntary Water Conservation
The Town of Monroe is asking residents to conserve water as the lack of rainfall, low streamflows and drought conditions have dropped the level in the reservoir. Town of Monroe established 1799 is operates seven water treatment plants in Orange County, each licensed separately. The water districts impacted by the voluntary water conservation request include:
- Water District 1 - High Ridge, population 308, served by surface water source purchased from another licensed facility in Orange County
- Water District 2 - STRL Heights-Hor Manor with 128 residents supplied by a groundwater source
- Water District 7 - Oreco Terrace - distributes potable water to 47 residents served with surface water purchased from another facility
- Water District 8 - Skyview Hills - distributes potable water to 544 residents with surface water purchased from another licensed facility
- Water District 10 - Pine Tree Road - distributes potable water to 50 residents with surface water purchased from another licensed facility
- Water District 12 - Monroe Hills Estates - serves potable water to 196 residents from a groundwater well source in Orange County
- Water District 14 - Orchard Hills Estates - serves potable water to 196 residents from a groundwater well source in Orange County
Orange County is in the Lower Hudson River watershed, rated below normal on the USGS drought map for some time. The below normal streamflows are clearly impacting drinking water supplies in the area, including surface reservoirs and groundwater wells which may not be refreshing underground as fast as the water is withdrawn. Watch for reports of HABs and spills in the region as the water levels are lower and this tends to concentrate nutrients and contaminants spilled. Turn on the watershed layer to view the water events occurring in the same drainage area as Monroe, depicted on the map with a brown tag for low water level.
Check here for the latest hazardous spill report for NYS,
and the latest report of NYS water bodies impacted by HABs this season.
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