Introduction
To comply with State regulations, Village of Nunda, will be annually issuing a report describing the quality of your drinking water.  The purpose of this report is to raise your understanding of drinking water and awareness of the need to protect our drinking water sources.  Last year, your tap water met all State drinking water health standards.  We are proud to report that our system did not violate a maximum contaminant level or any other water quality standard.  This report provides an overview of last year's water quality.  Included are details about where your water comes from, what it contains, and how it compares to State standards. 

If you have any questions about this report or concerning your drinking water, please contact Robert King, Water /Streets Supt., 585-468-5983.   We want you to be informed about your drinking water.  If you want to learn more, please attend any of our regularly scheduled village board meetings. The meetings are held on the 2nd Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at the Village Building.

Where does our water come from?
In general, the sources of drinking water (both tap water and bottled water) include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells.  As water travels over the surface of the land or through the ground, it dissolves naturally occurring minerals and, in some cases, radioactive material, and can pick up substances resulting from the presence of animals or from human activities.  Contaminants that may be present in source water include: microbial contaminants; inorganic contaminants; pesticides and herbicides; organic chemical contaminants; and radioactive contaminants.  In order to ensure that tap water is safe to drink, the State and the EPA prescribe regulations which limit the amount of certain contaminants in water provided by public water systems.  The State Health Department's and the FDA's regulations establish limits for contaminants in bottled water which must provide the same protection for public health.

Our water system serves approximately 1600 people through 726 service connections.  Our water source is a man-made impoundment reservoir on Chidsey Road, holding an estimated 13,000,000 gallons of water and was completed in the early 1960's.   Prior to distribution, the raw water enters two clarification tanks; Stern-Pac (a coagulant) is added to optimize settling.  The slow, gravity-fed sand filters then remove the finer organic and inorganic matter and an optimum turbidity (clarity of water) is the result.  The last stage of treatment is disinfection with chlorine.  Chlorine is an oxidizing agent and is the most widely used means of disinfection prior to distribution.