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Goal: To ensure an alternate permanent drinking water supply for all impacted areas.
The Drinking Water Subgroup is responsible for making sure North Pole residents have a drinking water supply that meets state standards. The subgroup is also responsible for evaluating potential in-home treatment systems for impacted well owners and for overseeing the City of North Pole public water system’s routine testing.
Overseeing:
- The new public drinking water wells operation.
- The City of North Pole has requested that DEC issue its final operational approval.
- DEC’s Drinking Water Program engineers are continuing their review of the engineering plans for the wells. DEC’s final operational approval for the project is expected in the near future.
- The new drinking water wells have been sampled each month and no sulfolane has been detected in any sample. The sampling frequency for the new wells will be reduced to quarterly for 2012.
- The Church at North Pole, a federally regulated public water system in the plume area, elected to install the point-of-entry water treatment system being offered by Flint Hills. DEC’s Drinking Water Program engineers have issued an approval to construct the treatment system; the program issued an interim approval to operate in November 2011.
For more information contact Cindy Christian, Compliance Program Manager, (907) 451-2138, cindy.christian@alaska.gov.
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