TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE PINEWOOD SPRINGS WATER DISTRICT
The water emergency continues, with a general outage affecting everyone on the West side of Route 36.
The cause is that, although we are hauling water as rapidly as possible, we have been unable to keep up
with usage. As a result, water levels in the storage tanks on that side have dropped so low that there is
insufficient hydraulic head to maintain pressure. We presently expect the water outage will last all day today.
We delayed using reservoir water as long as possible due to the high manganese levels. Yesterday, we
started tapping the reservoir as an emergency measure, first flushing the line and diluting the water to
reduce the manganese concentration. It is still higher than the recommended level for health: 0.3 mg/L for
infants under 6 months and 0.5 mg/L for adults.
A complicating factor is that manganese reacts with chlorine, pulling down our disinfectant levels. We must
then add more chlorine to make up the shortage. We are standing by the pumps, restarting and adding
chlorine as needed.
These factors have prompted two health advisories: one to use bottled water for infants and formula, and
one to boil water for drinking due to loss of pressure in the lines.
With the help of the Fire Department, we are distributing these advisories to all members of the community.
Bottled water is available at the Fire House for anyone who needs it, and we will have more at the water
plant. Just let us know.
As soon as we can get the water levels in the tanks high enough, we will restart water to the affected area.
The health advisories will remain in effect until we can get the manganese levels down in our finished water.
We are doing everything to expedite installation of our Pilot Treatment Plant to address the manganese
problem directly.
We are receiving water from several haulers. We expect that the cost of hauled water will average out to at
least $0.20 per gallon.
Please, please do everything you can to CONSERVE WATER. We are working as hard as we can to get it
flowing again, and need your help.
Jim Easter
Kim Bologna
Evan Jones
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