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Apparent Microbiological Monitoring Violations
October - December 2008
Ohio’s public water systems are required to monitor for Microbiological
contamination on a regular basis. When public water systems fail to monitor the
Ohio EPA issues the systems monitoring violations.
To view the list of systems that are on the current apparent violation lists
for missed monitoring, please click on the links below. These lists contain
the systems that do not have results submitted to Ohio EPA for the specified
monitoring time period. Laboratories that have any of the missing results
should submit the results to this office via DRINKware (preferred method), or by
paper forms, to the appropriate district office, as
soon as possible in order to remove a system from the apparent violation lists
and prevent the system from receiving a violation letter. If you have any
questions about this information, and how the process works,
please contact Brian Tarver, Ohio EPA, DDAGW, Central Office, (614)
728-1740.
Apparent Chemical Violations may be found at the following link:
Apparent Chemical Violations
List updated 11/24/2008
Apparent Bacti Violations
(Sorted by PWSID)
Apparent Bacti Violations
(Sorted by County then by PWS Name)
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Background
Ohio EPA is requesting your assistance in helping all
Non-Community Public Water Systems (PWSs) achieve compliance with their
requirement to collect routine quarterly total coliform bacteria samples.
This is what we intend to accomplish:
After the end of each quarter, reduce the number of calls received by your
lab from our inspectors who are gathering bacteria test results for PWSs for
which we do not have monitoring results.
Identify any problems that may be encountered with electronic submission
of results via DRINKware, so we may resolve them.
Provide PWSs with reminder notices to collect their quarterly routine
bacteria sample(s) before the end of the monitoring period.
Reduce the number of quarterly total coliform violations issued by Ohio
EPA, thereby assisting Non-Community PWSs to increase their compliance rates.
What is the Process?
Ohio EPA’s Quarterly Routine Total Coliform Bacteria Compliance Improvement
process consists of:
- Quarterly during the first eight to ten days of the last month of the
quarter, an e-mail will be sent to all the Laboratories (Labs) that perform
total coliform bacteria analysis for Non-Community PWSs. The e-mail will
contain a link to a list of PWSs that have not submitted bacteria test results
to Ohio EPA as of the date of the e-mail. Ohio EPA is requesting that your
personnel review the list of PWSs posted on Ohio EPA’s, Division of Drinking
and Ground Waters (DDAGW) web site and determine if you have test results for
any of your PWS customers on the list.
- If you have any test results for customers on your list that you sent
via DRINKware prior to the date of Ohio EPA’s e-mail, please call Brian
Tarver at (614)728-1740 within 5 days of the e-mail to discuss it.
- If you have any test results for customers on your list that you sent to
Ohio EPA via facsimile prior to the date of Ohio EPA’s e-mail, please
forward a second copy of the results via fax to the appropriate district
office and write on the top of the fax, "Second Copy" with the date of the
previous request. Please complete this within five (5) days of receipt of
the e-mail.
- If you have test results for customers on your list that you have not
either forwarded to Ohio EPA via DRINKware or by facsimile to the
appropriate district office,
please do so within five (5) days of receipt of the e-mail.
Categories A, B or C above should be accomplished by the 16th
of the last month of the quarter (March 16th, June 16th, September 16th,
and December16th).
- On the 17th of the last month of the quarter (or the following
Monday if the 17th falls on a weekend) at 9:00 AM, Ohio EPA will
begin printing out the reminder notices to all remaining non-community PWSs to
collect their bacteria sample in the next few days prior to the end of the
month/quarter.
- On the 8th of the first month of the following quarter, the
Labs will be sent another e-mail with a link to Ohio EPA’s web site requesting
any test results you may have for non-community PWSs from the previous
quarter. Please forward these to Ohio EPA as described in categories A, B and
C as indicated in paragraph one (1) to prevent the system from being issued a
violation on the 15th of the month for failing to collect a total
coliform sample(s) during the previous quarter.
For Example, the process for the July - September Quarter will be as follows:
September 9 E-mail notification to labs with a link to Web Site to
a list of PWSs
September 10-16 Labs submit bacteria test results to Ohio EPA for
non-community PWSs included on the list
September 17 Ohio EPA issues reminder notices to remaining PWSs to
collect bacteria sample prior to the end of the month
October 8 E-mail notices to Labs with a link of all PWSs that
may receive a violation letter unless bacteria test results are received by
October 15
October 15 Ohio EPA begins issuing routine monitoring violation
letters to PWSs for failure to collect Total Coliform Bacteria Sample.
This process will be performed every quarter.
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the link below. This will reduce the number of e-mails Ohio EPA will need to
generate.
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If you have any questions regarding this information and how the process
works, please contact Brian Tarver, Ohio EPA, DDAGW, Central Office,
(614) 728-1740. |
