OHA Drinking Water Services
OHA Drinking Water Services
Contact Report Details

PWS ID: OR41 00731
PWS Name: SALEM PUBLIC WORKS
 
Who Was Contacted and Phone: Lacey Goeres (503) 361-2224
Contact Date: 08/08/2014
Contacted By: BAIRD, GREGG (REGION 1)
Contact Method/Location: Office
 
Assistance Type: WATER QUALITY ALERT RESPONSE
Reasons: Coliform
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Details: SUMMARY: Routine +TC DETAILS: Lacey reported that a routine sample collected wednesday 8/6/14 at 999 Locust St NE was positive for total coliform (E. coli absent). Three repeats were collected yesterday 8/7/14 at the original site and upstream and downstream-- all repeats came back negative for coliform & E. coli today. There was no known cause of the original positive and chlorine residuals were normal at the time. ACTION NEEDED: Salem needs to collect triggered source water samples from all wells that were active at the time of the distribution positive-- Lacey indicated those samples would be collected from three ASR wells today with results ready on Monday (note: SRC-BA ASR #1 was not running at the time). Update 8/11/14: all well samples were absent for coliform/EC.
 
Associated Alerts: COLI13124 - 08/08/2014 - COLIFORM (TCR)