Laurentian Valley Water Works manages just over 14 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 which was reclassified to a Water Distribution Subsystem Class 1 in August of 2005. The Drinking Water System Information number for Laurentian Valley Water Works is W260007465. This is the third report for 2007.

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 the Municipal Office at 460 Witt Road during office hours.

Quality Analysis

Water sampling was conducted by Claus Trost, Water Quality Analyst, Certificate number 12228, Morris Schneider, License # 13146 and Mark Zadow, License # 13145 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.

Third Quarter Water Quality Results

Complaints

There were no complaints received in the third quarter of 2007.

Staffing & Training

Laurentian Valley Waterworks has 1 Water Quality Analyst, 2 operators certified Water Distribution - Class 1 and 3 Operators in Training. The OETC has delayed issuing a level one certificate to one of the OIT’s claiming that he does not have enough hours of water service.

Construction

The Hamilton Street water main reconstruction was completed early in the third quarter of 2007. The work was overseen by Mike Trebinski of Jp2g Consultants. Two sets of samples were taken prior to the reconnection, and further sampling was done after the system was connected.

Maintenance

Ten new residential services where turned on in the third quarter of 2007.

Ministry of the Environment

The Municipality responded to the Ministry of the Environment Audit Report of Laurentian Valley Water Works on August 17, 2007

Summary

In the third quarter of 2007, the water works purchased 17,484,540 gallons of water from the City of Pembroke and distributed it to 591 homes and businesses. Water quality analysis revealed no incidents of adverse water quality.