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The Environmental
Engineering Division is the primary agency designated to carry out the
provisions of the federal "Safe Drinking Water Act," and for
assuring that the state's 2,000 public drinking water supplies provide a
reliable supply of safe drinking water to approximately 1,387,000
individuals.
Specific
activities of this division include:
- Project Review
and Approval: provides about 500 technical engineering reviews each
year for new or renovated systems;
- Construction
Permits: issues about 275 permits each year to construct new or
renovated systems based upon engineering reviews;
- Water
Fluoridation: oversees the fluoridation process currently conducted by
335 public water systems (87% of eligible systems, serving 1,207,000
people) provides technical assistance, operator training and
certification and monitoring to assure optimum fluoridation is
achieved;
- Lead/Copper/Corrosion
Control: provides technical assistance to assure systems are testing
for lead and copper contamination and that proper treatment is
occurring.
- Water Vending
Machines: issues permits for machine installation, conducts periodic
water testing and operation and establishes requirements for
monitoring Cross Connection/Plumbing: provides prevention of
contamination of drinking water;
- Data
Management/Compliance: reviews approximately 40,000 monitoring reports
for routine testing of more than 200 specific contaminants, and
assures that compliance activities are undertaken to correct
violations; provides on-site technical assistance and public notices
if public health is threatened;
- Enforcement:
provides for court action when needed to formally resolve violations,
including about 80 Boil Water Orders placed on systems each year in
cases where waterborne disease is possible;
- Water Well
Driller training and Certification: provides training, examination and
certification of drillers;
- Water system
Operator Training Testing and Certification: provides training,
testing and certification for public water system operators;
- Wellhead
Protection: provided technical expertise for community wellhead
protection programs in area of hydro geology, geology, hydraulic
characteristics, modeling and simulation;
- Public
Wastewater Systems: provides oversight for the location, design,
construction and operation of large, municipal wastewater systems,
including training for about 500 and certification for about 125
operators each year;
- Engineering
Services/Sanitary Surveys: provides on-site technical assistance, as
requested, for any system, especially small ones that may not have
access to such expertise; also provides free, complete sanitary
surveys for use in planning for future improvements and in correcting
deficiencies.
For a more
complete description of the specific programs within the EED, please read
the Organizational Information section.
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Last updated
May 29, 2013.
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