Drinking water notice Published Aug. 13, 2010 KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. -- KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE Failure to Meet Treatment Technique Requirements Our water system recently violated a drinking water requirement. Although this incident was NOT an emergency, as our customers, you have a right to know what happened and what we did to correct this situation. The water is safe to drink and continues to meet state drinking water criteria. Our required monitoring for the month of July meets the standards for both bacteriological and disinfectant residual. We are required to treat/disinfect our drinking water source well 4 and well 11. From July 1, 2010 to July 30, 2010, we did not meet one or more of our treatment requirements to provide sufficient levels of disinfectant due to malfunctioning equipment and monitoring. We failed to maintain the required level of chlorine residual at the source with the continuous monitoring at water source well 4 and well 11. What should I do? · There is nothing you need to do. You do not need to boil your water or take other corrective actions. However, if you have specific health concerns, consult your doctor. · If you have a severely compromised immune system, have an infant, are pregnant, or are elderly, you may be at increased risk and should seek advice from your health care providers about drinking this water. General guidelines on ways to lessen the risk of infection by microbes are available from EPA's Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791. What does this mean? This is NOT an emergency. If it had been, you would have been notified within 24 hours. Inadequately treated water may contain disease-causing organisms. These organisms include bacteria, viruses, and parasites which can cause symptoms such as nausea, cramps, diarrhea, and associated headaches. These symptoms, however, are not caused only by organisms in drinking water, but also by other factors. If you experience any of these symptoms and they persist, you may want to seek medical advice. While we have not detected any evidence of contamination in, or other health threats to, our source water, we are still committed to restoring the required level of treatment to the water from well 4 and well 11 to eliminate the threat of contamination. What is being done? The following specifies corrective actions this water supply has taken in response to this violation: · We increased disinfection to maintain our proper residual levels. · We are pursuing improvements to our treatment system so that we can maintain required treatment at all times. This problem was resolved on July 30, 2010. For more information, please contact ALFRED A. WATKINS, Official, at (228) 376-8417. This notice is being sent to you by KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE. PWS ID#: 0240049.