Laurentian Valley Water Works manages just over 13 kilometres of water main and branch lines in the Township. Laurentian Valley Water Works received its Certificate #2893 as a Water Distribution System Class 1 in November of 2000. This is the Municipalities second report for 2003.

Laurentian Valley Township has a water servicing agreement with the City of Pembroke. The water is purchased from the city and distributed in the Stafford Village area, part of Pembroke Street East and part of Pembroke Street West. The City treats and tests the water at the Pembroke Filtration Plant on Riverside Drive and tests the water in their distribution system. The Municipality tests the water in its distribution system.

This report and the Certificates of Analysis are available to the general public at the front counter of Municipal Office at 460 Witt Road during office hours.

Testing

Water sampling was conducted by Claus Trost, Water Quality Analyst, Certificate number 12228. The water samples were sent to Caduceon Laboratories Inc. in Ottawa for analysis. Caduceon is an ODWS Accredited laboratory. The results of the analysis are faxed back to the Municipality. The following chart is a summary of those test results.

Quality Analysis

Second Quarter Water Quality Results

NOTE: 1

On May 29, 2003 Laurentian Valley Water Works was advised by the City of Pembroke Filtration Plant that they had an equipment malfunction. The Alum feeder had stopped for a short period. This resulted in some water being distributed with an elevated turbidity reading. Laurentian Valley Water Work's staff checked their distribution system and determined that none of this water reached our area. The water was checked for clarity and chlorine residuals were verified.

COMPLAINTS

While checking the water during the May 29, 2003 incident, the main on Roy Street was flushed. This resulted in some short term, local turbidity because the steel main in this area was disturbed.

Ministry of Environment

On April 1, 2003 Gary Roberts, an investigations officer from the Ministry questioned Claus Trost about the adverse water quality incident of May 9, 2002. Claus wrote a statement of the events and faxed and mailed it to Mr. Roberts on April 2, 2003.

Staffing and Training

Laurentian Valley Waterworks has 2 operators certified WD-1 and has started another operator in training.

On April 8, 2003 Morris Schneider and Claus Trost attended a meeting at the City of Pembroke. The Town of Petawawa and the Renfrew County Health Unit was also in attendance. The meeting was organized to discuss water issues of mutual concern.

Maintenance

There were no water service breaks in the second quarter of 2003.

Construction

The water main at the First Pemstar property was extended to the new Canadian Tire Store by Holloway Equipment. The main was super chlorinated, flushed and tested.

Summary

In the second quarter of 2003, the Municipality purchased 22,380,624 gallons of water from the City of Pembroke and distributed it to 521 homes and businesses. Water quality analysis has revealed no indications of adverse water quality.