Water Quality Reports

What is a Water Quality Report? 

The Water Quality Report details the quality of your drinking water, where it comes from, and where you can get more information. This annual report documents all detected primary and secondary drinking water parameters, and compares them to their respective standards known as Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs). Berlin Water Works mails this report to its customers once yearly, with the May Quarter water bills.

The sources of drinking water

(both tap water and bottled water) include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As water travels over the surface of the land or through the ground, it dissolves naturally-occurring minerals and, in some cases, radioactive material, and can pick up substances resulting from the presence of animals or from human activity.

What is the source of my drinking water? 

The Primary source is water from the East Branch of the Upper Ammonoosuc River that has been flocculated, clarified, filtered, treated and disinfected by chlorination.  The pH is raised with Sodium bicarbonate and sodium hydroxide as corrosion inhibitor to minimize lead and copper from the tap water.  There is an alternate groundwater source; the Brown Farm Well that was refurbished in 2013, a 1.44 million gallon per day source that can supplement the water needed to the City residents, on an as needed basis.  The systems demand average daily flow is 1.488 million gallons per day.

 

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