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Final source water protection meeting in Fayetteville Wednesday evening

FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. — West Virginia American Water will wrap up their final public meetings on source water protection Wednesday at 6 PM at Fayetteville City Hall, diagramming their plans for additional protection of source water to come into compliance with new regulatory requirements.

“There’s a management plan component, a communication plans component, inventories of upstream contaminant sources that are potential contaminant sites above your drinking water intake,” West Virginia American Water Company External Affairs Manager Laura Jordan said. “All of these are integrated into the plan.”

Jordan said the company is developing a new threat advisory system when drinking water has been contaminated and the new plan involves looking at what the company can do to protect water sources before they arrive at a treatment plant.

She acknowledged that direct customers aren’t the only one’s impacted if drinking water is unsafe.

“We have people that are customers just during the day while they are at work and at home they may be on well-system,” she said. “Or they may be a customer of another water system. This is overall something that impacts not just our direct customers but people we serve indirectly as well.”

During the first of two presentations Wednesday in Fayetteville, there was also a discussion of where potential contaminants come from. Some of these contaminants can come from benign activities like rainwater run-off of insecticides and pesticides from a farm, which is why Jordan said she hopes the public will engage the company while they have the opportunity.

“We want people to become engaged as part of this process because there are things that we can do in our inventories,” she said. “Perhaps we may still have missed a risk that someone may know about because it’s right in their backyard or right in their community.”

Jordan said that the plan already incorporates what rate-payers are currently paying for water.

“At this point in time, we’ve just put together what that rate impact would be if that was something that we decided further down the road to implement,” Jordan said.

Public comments and feedback are open until May 2 of this year.





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