A Publication of the Pennsylvania Rural Water Assolciation - ._ Pennsylvania Rural Water Association Nationally Recognized NAnONA.L RURAL WATEa ASSOCIAnON •J.: @) NAnONAL RURAL WATEa ASSOCV.nON ,~Y,¥¥1.1 0 «VM/, lf"d7pASjfQCU1"10N AS ~VANfl ~ IIC/!UJ. II'A1'1fiASSOfUT10K ~IJVMMf '"" !'AliPAptJCZATIDif AI AI ett'#st,.....dw .. ,, riendskp of those we­ ~erVe ~s the. ~-tiort of our yr~r€5~, ~~.~~~.~~~~~~~~ . .. v .• v v ~ ~nOI'W. RURAL WATER ASSOCIAnON NATIONAL RURAL WATE.Il ASSOCIAnON @ NAnONAL RURAL WATE.Il ASSOCIATION a:n~nCAn: or IW:OCHmo:< CU'IV1CAT&c cw UCOOHmO.'I ~!h. 0 ~!h. STiiVB&/lCtfNA vY CHERn THOMAS Mltl/ltiSTI.""At!'M IIIJlAI W'dllll! tfSS'OPAT/Oitl AI . , !a" PRWA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Thomas Stojek Jan Gallo Clearfield, Pennsylvania Clymer, Pennsylvania President Director E. Dean Steele Pat Regan Kittanning, Pennsylvania Carrolltown, Pennsylvania Vice-President Director L. Edmund Wilson Guy Shaffer Alexandria, Pennsylvania Bellefonte, Pennsylvania Secretary Director Teresa Rissmiller Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania Director Articles and Features: PRWA-STAFF FmHA Insurance Herb Pizer, Program Manager Requirements Changed ... .. .. .. ... ..... ... 3 Stephen Krchnavy, Circuit Rider William Keller, Waste-Water Technician Surface Water Treatment Cheryl Thomas, Office Manager Rule Final ..... ................................. 3 Safe Drinking Water Notes ............... .. 4 NOTICE TO READERS . Training- Can You Live Without lt. .... ....... ...... .. .... ... .. .... 7 Pennsylvania Rural Water Association would like to invite you to prepare a short article abo1.,1t your water Black Water - Greensand .. ... .. .... ...... 10 system or other topics which would be of interest to our readers. We also welcome articles from our Asso­ Reflections .................................. 14 ciate members. Send your articles with black and white photographs, Notes from the Road ..... ........ .. .. ..... 14 if available to: PRWA Down the Line ... ....... ..... ............... 14 Saltsburg Plaza P.O. Box 90 Saltsburg, PA 15681 The KEYSTONE TAP is the official publication of the PENNSYLVANIA RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION, P.O. Box On the Cover: 90, Saltsburg, Pennsylvania 15681 , and is published quarterly for distribution to representatives of Rural and Municipal Water PRWA Board of Directors Teresa Rissmiller, Jan Gallo Supplies. Issues are mailed free of charge to member and non­ and Pat Regan, along with NRWA President, Elroy member rural water associations. Articles and photographs are Larimore and PRWA Staff display the PRWA National encouraged with payment in complimentary copies. For more Recognitions received at NRWA Conference, October information regarding this publication, contact the PRWA office, 23-26, 1989. P.O. 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Bridgeville, PA 15017 412/257-8310 2 FmHA INSURANCE SURFACE WATER REQUIREMENTS TREATMENT CHANGED RULE FINAL The Farmers Home Administration has issued a final The Environmental Protection Agency has issued the rule allowing more flexibility in the amount of insurance Final Rule for Surface Water Treatment. The rule requires coverage and fidelity bond required. all surface water supplies to disinfect. They may also be The final rule was issued May 3, 1989. It states: required to filter unless certain water quality requirements "Fidelity Bond applicants/borrowers will provide fidelity are met. bond coverage for all persons who have access to funds. The rule also specifies the procedure for coliform sam­ Coverage may be provided either for all individual posi­ pling of all water systems. The original proposed rule tions or persons, or through "blanket" coverage ..." "The would have required five samples each month for the amount of coverage required by FmHA will normally ap­ smallest size system. The final rule requires systems serv­ proximate the total annual debt service requirements for ing up to 1,000 population to collect one sample per FmHA loans ..." month. The final rule has been drastically changed from This change, to give more flexibility to the rule, was sup­ the proposed rule. The changes are a result of concerns ported by NRWA and its state affiliates. expressed by NRWA, State Affiliates, and water system Detailed information may be obtained by contacting your personnel. State or Regional FmHA office. The capital cost estimated for the filtration portion of the rule is $3 billion dollars and coliform testing cost is expect­ ed to increase $70 million dollars. Schedule graduates up­ ward with the population served. A system having a popu­ lation of 10,000 will be required to take 10 routine samples per month. Model825Y 11 (3/4 - 2") Reduced Pressure Assembly : -Ji'afi1fi~;;'ijJ~~J:;:~fjBt~ Stoetaki:' =WE:s'te·A:~,:' PEN~'svL.vANiA' . .'. ;;'Mbnah~n :·&As'si:ki~i'tes :' I, , J~~~~~.~~ :g,; - .··. d~fe'~ t:lpe'~~SYLVANIA ~aiesC<:>mP<tny M ode l 825 YD ·iA.mdia'· (2 1/2" - 10") ":', ::~~~~~~ :=:~:~~fr:.~~~ i~a~·=- ,: Reduced Pressure Assembly 3 SAFE DRINKING WATER NOTES From DER's Division of Water Supplies State Lead Ban Becomes Law Wellhead Protection Contract Initiated In early July, Governor Casey signed Senate Bill 283, A joint funding agreement between the Department and the "Plumbing System Lead Ban and Notification Act. " The USGS to study wellhead protection methods was recently act prohibits the sale and use of plumbing materials that signed. The study will provide analysis of methods for deli­ are not lead free and requires community and nontransient neation of wellhead protection areas in the various hydro­ noncommunity water supplies to issue public notice relat­ geologic settings of Pennsylvania. Maps that would be ing to lead contamination. The act gives Pennsylvania the generated from these delineation methods could be used authority to implement the lead ban provisions of the feder­ by local land use and resource protection decision makers al Safe Drinking Water Act amendments of 1986. to protect the future of their community's water supply. The Under this new act, public water suppliers are required study is expected to produce several guidance documents to obtain certification from any person applying for connec­ for use by the Department and local municipalities. tion that the materials used in the construction of the plumbing system to be connected are lead free. The water New Laboratory Reporting Forms supplier must refuse connection to any person not comply­ Forms used for reporting laboratory analysis results of ing with this requirement. public water system monitoring samples have recently The lead ban, public notice, and connection certification been revised and renamed. The four new forms designat­ requirements become effective January 1991. Water sup­ ed SDWA-2 (coliform, turbidity, TTHM), SDWA-2 pliers who have already issued the public notice to comply (coliform/turbidity summary), SDWA 2-D (summary attach­ with the 1986 federal amendments will not have to renotify ment), and SDWA-4 (chemical/radiological) are now avail­ under the Pennsylvania law. To date, about 600 water able for use and may be ordered from DER's Bureau of suppliers across the state have provided public notice. Laboratories. Instruction manuals for the forms are currently in various Small System Viability Study stages of development. The instruction manual for SDWA- The Division has begun preparation of a Request-for­ 1 has been completed and distributed to water suppliers Proposals (R FP) to obtain the services of a professional and appropriate certified laboratories. A separate instruc­ firm to conduct a viability study of small water systems in tion manual on use of the SDWA-1 form for systems with Pennsylvania. The viability of a system refers to its techni­ unfiltered surface water sources to report performance cal, financial and managerial capabilities to comply with monitoring results is being distributed by DER drinking wa­ safe drinking water regulations. The study will be jointly ter program staff along with sampling point designations. funded by EPA and DER. The manuals for the other forms are scheduled to be com­ The purpose of the study is to obtain recommendations pleted and distributed shortly. Water suppliers and labora­ for the most effective methods of controlling the prolifera­ tories may continue to use old reporting forms until their tion of non-viable small water systems in Pennsylvania. personal supplies are exhausted. The study will be expected to produce a model law or regulation which would set minimum viability requirements for small water systems. Advertisement of the RFP is scheduled for publication in September so that the study can begin early in 1990. Performance Monitoring for Unfiltered Surface Water Sources ongratulations to Under DER's new filtration regulations, public water sys­ tems with unfiltered surface water sources must b'egin per­ The City of Franklin formance monitoring for turbidity, coliform bacteria, and disinfectant residual. The turbidity and coliform samples for being honored by must be taken at the unfiltered source. Disinfectant residu­ The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) al samples must be taken from the treated water as it for Superior Performance enters the distribution system and at points throughout the in operation and maintenance of distribution system.