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Contact Report Details |
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| PWS ID: | OR41 94718 | ||
| PWS Name: | CHEMICAL WASTE MGT OF NW INC | ||
| Who Was Contacted: | Peter Ceton | ||
| Contact Phone: | -- (Email address hidden) | ||
| Contact Date: | 09/20/2019 | ||
| Contacted By: | GRENDEL, ERIC (WASCO COUNTY) | ||
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| Assistance Type: | OTHER REGULATORY - A question recieved about emergency water use | ||
| Reasons: | Coliform |
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| Details: | Eric, A Prelog: We consist of two Sites here in Arlington. Columbia Ridge Landfill is a municipal waste dump and Chemical Waste management is a hazardous waste dump. CWM has two Wells. One, (Well #5) is of course a Non-Community, Non-Transient Drinking Water System. The other, (Well #3) pre-dates CWM and served as a water source for the cattle ranch this property once was. We earmark Well #3 as a Best Management Practices Well, because it has issues. Each Quarter I take two different methods of water sampling from each of the Showers/Eyewashes and turn them in with our drinking water samples with a caveat that they not report to State. Method 1 is ‘first grab’ and Method 2 is ‘sterilizing’ and flushing for three minutes. We routinely get both E. Coli and Total Coliform hits from random Showers/Eyewashes each Quarter. You see, Well #3 feeds four former grain elevators, not certified drinking water reservoirs and I believe they are open topped. If not open topped, they are perforated like swiss cheese and our welder often has to weld a patch in during the Winter months when the seams burst. These grain elevators feed a distribution system of multiple years of undocumented repair/replace that we have no drawings to verify. Our goal: A Decontamination Building, Hot/Warm Line will be established in the Active Area. The purpose of which will be a place where Operators can doff their soiled PPE, wash their face and hands and keep our eating and drinking zones free of contaminants. We would like to run new distribution from Well #5 up to the new building and tie-in with existing distribution for Eyewash and Showers, thus satisfying our BMP. We would isolate Well #3 removing it as a source. Some red flags that arose in speaking with my Management is that construction requires a certain course of action. And I thought there might be issue with combining drinking water systems with emergency systems. |
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