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swi LEE STREETEAST. SUITE imo. PO. BOX 553. CHARLESTON, WESTVIRGINIA 25322. TELEPHONE, 304-~~O-IOOO.TELECOPIER: 304.~40. I I 30 ~w.,ockronkeli”.~*,,, Direct Dial No. (304) 340-1289 Fax No. (304) 340-1080 e-mail: [email protected] State Bar ID No. 2522 September 3,2014 Via Hand Delivery Ingrid Ferrell, Director Executive Secretary Division 2?..lg, P~C?~ IS i 5bP 0-5 ?TT*\,b py<u,yi SJ“ p;{ Public Service Commission of West Virginia 201 Brooks Street Charleston, WV Re: Case No. 14-0872-W-GI - West Virginia-American Water Company Dear Ms. Ferrell: Following up our filing yesterday, here is a disk with PDF versions of the non. confidential documents provided to the parties. Please date stamp the extra copy of this letter, and retum it with our messenger. As always, we appreciate your assistance. Sincerely, i John Philip Melick JPMimrv Enclosure c: Jacqueline Lake Roberts, Tom White and Heather Osbom, Esqs. (woienc.) William V. DePaulo, Esq. (woi enc.) Paul R. Sheridan, Esq. (wo/ enc.) Anthony J. Majestro, Esq. (wo/ enc.) Timothy C. Bailey, Esq. (wo/ enc.) Jonathan Marshall, Esq. (woi enc.) David A. Sade, Esq. (wo/ enc.) (C2944373.l) Chnl-lerron.W 1 Clirkrbul-g,W . Mal-riorburg.W * Moiglniown.W * Whee1ing.W Denver, CO * Ev;lnrville. IN Lexingron.KY -Akron. OH * P,rrrbiwgh. PA * Wrrhingron. DC STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTHAND HUMAN RESOURCES BUREAU FOR PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES Bob Wise Paul L. Nusbaum Governor Secretary August 19, 2002 WV American Water Works Attn: Tom Holbrook Post Office Box 1906 Charleston, WV 25327 RE: Source Water Assessment PWSID: WV3302016 Dear Tom: Thank youfor participatinginthe West VirginiaBureaufor PublicHealth(WVBPH) Source Water Assessment and Protection (SWAP) Program. The program, mandatedby the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), involves delineating source water protection areas, identifyingpotential contamination sources, and recommending management strategies to protect these sources used for public drinking water supplies. The results of these assessments were evaluatedbythe WVBPHto produceyour susceptibilityreport. Theprogramrequiresasource water assessment and susceptibility report be completed for every public water system by 2003 in West Virginia. Your cooperation inthe program is greatly appreciated. Enclosed is your draft copy of the WVAWC - KanawhaValley Source Water Assessment Susceptibility Report. The report includes two additional maps. The first map shows the zone of critical concern andthe general types ofpotential contaminant sources withinthe area. The second map shows the watershed areawiththeregulatedandnonregulatedpotentialsignificant contaminant sources (PSCS). For additional information on the SWAP Program, the EPA "Community Involvement inDrinking Water SourceAssessments" (EPA 816-F-00-025 May 2000) report is also included. As a water system Operator, it isyour responsibility to relate future changes that may affect the SWAP area to the WVBPH. Ifyou have any concerns about the susceptibility report findings, please provide these concerns inwriting to the WVBPHwithin 15 days of the receipt ofthis letter. Otherwise, the WVBPH encourages you to use this information towards the next step in this program, which is developing a protection plan. We encourage you to develop a local SWAP committee made up of community members, civic groups, youth groups, etc. that will help your ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DIVISION Source Water Assessment Program Unit 815 Quarrier Street, Suite 418, Charleston, West Virginia 25301-2616 Telephone: 304-558-6705 Fax: 304-558-0324 GI0000002 0001 WV American Water Works August 19, 2002 Page Two community develop and cany out a plan to prevent water quality problems. If a local planning committee already exists, please make them aware of any proposed changes inland use, zoning or planned development that may adversely affect your water quality. For additional informationconcerningthisprogramor report,pleasecontact meat 304-558- 6765. Sincerely, Blaine Barringer Source Water Assessment and Protection GBB/cjj Enclosures pc: OEHS Saint Albans District Office GI0000002 0002 United States Office of Water EPA 816-F-00-025 Environmental Protection (4606) May 2000 _ Agency___ Community Involvement in DrinkingWater Source Assessments providedto the public to help communities Doyou know whereyour plan for protection activities. community s drinking water comes from? Each state is moving forward to implement are the major threats to your What assessments ofits public water systems, as drinking water quality? requiredunder the federal Safe DrinkingWater Act. Assessments must be completedby 2003 for every public water system—for major Community members and civic or youth metropolitan areas and the smallest towns, groups can help answer these questions and including schools, restaurants and other public use the information to protect their drinking facilities that have wells or surface water water sources. By working with their state's supplies. Assessments will not be conducted program to assess drinking water sources, for drinking water systems that have less than community groups can help to identify fifteen service connections or that regularly potentialthreats to the quality of their serve less than twenty-five individuals, since drinking water. They can also help local these are not considered public water systems. officials develop and implement a plan of action to prevent water quality problems. SOURCE WATER ASSESSMENTS Your state is now The source water assessment requiredto assess all the programs created by states ground water and surface Thisfact sheet explains thefour differ since they are tailoredto water sources that supply steps source water of each state's water resources and water to public water assessments ;how communities drinking water priorities. systems, andyou can be canparticipate in the assessment However, each assessment must involvedinthe process. process; andhow communities include four major elements: These assessments will can utilizeassessment identify the major informationfor source water protection. Downloadable • delineating (or potential sources of mapping) the contaminationto drinking source water water supplies, and will assessment area determine how susceptible the water systems conducting an inventory of are to contamination. The results will be potential sources of GI0000002 0003 contamination inthe delineated area Watershed to Stream C - determining the susceptibility ÿ x of the water supply to those I contamination sources /'Watershed / ] to Stream A / releasingthe results ofthe / determinations to the public V ÿ These steps are described inmore detail below, with information on how citizens and $ÿ>urce Water Intake organizations canjoin inthe assessment process. Step1:Delineatethe source water Some states planto divide the watershed area ASSESSMENT AREA into segments—areas closest to the intake For each groundwater well or surface water where most types of contamination sources intake that supplies public drinking water, can impact the water supply, and other more the land area that could contribute water and distant areas. The entire watershed up to the pollutants to the water supply must be state's boundaries isrequiredto be delineated, delineated or mapped. Significant potential but die inventory of potential pollution sources sources of contamination will then be may be more detailed insegments that are identified inthis delineated area during closer to the intake. Step 2 of the assessment process. After the state has completed its assessment For groundwater supplies, states commonly for a water system, the community may decide use information about the flow of to undertake protection efforts for targeted undergroundwater to delineate source water sources of contamination. An initialstep could assessment boundaries. This results in a map be to expand upon the state's delineation of land areas where, ifpollutants are spilled process. Particularly for smaller ground water or discharged on the surface, they couldfilter systems, where states may not have the through the soil to the groundwater andbe resources to conduct a detailed delineation, drawn into a particular well. Some states additional scientific methods can be usedto may use a simpler mapping approach, by more accurately delineate the area that drawing a circle of a certain radius around contributes ground water to the well. the well. Community members can seek assistance from For a community that uses surface water the environmental sciences, geology or from a stream, river, lake or reservoir, the engineering departments of local colleges, or land area inthe watershed upstream of the from environmental consulting firms to assist intake is identified on the map. A watershed increating more detailed delineations. boundary is drawn using a topographic map, Sometimes these services are providedby andincludes the land areas where rain or professors, graduate students or local firms for melted snow flows over or through the a reduced fee or none at all. Inaddition, local ground and eventually enters the water water resource information is often available source upstream of the water system's from other sources such as the federal Natural intake. ---GI0000002_0004 Resource Conservation Service, the United Community groups such as watershed States Geological Survey, and the state's organizations, local environmental committees Cooperative Extension Service. or scout troops can enhance the Nori-point