Water Quality Report

We’re pleased to provide you with this year's Annual Water Quality Report.  We want to keep you informed about the excellent water and services we have delivered to you over the past year.  Our goal is and always has been, to provide to you a safe and dependable supply of drinking water.  Our primary water source is ground water from a combination of 10 wells. The wells draw water from the Floridan Aquifer. Fallen rain percolates into the ground through layers of sand, clay, and limestone which naturally filters the water before it reaches the aquifer. The water drawn from the aquifer is treated at the William C. Maytum Water Treatment Plant. Treatment includes aeration for hydrogen sulfide removal, chloramination for disinfection and fluoridation for dental health. Other available sources of water are the Tampa Bay Water Regional System. The Tampa Bay Water Regional System Water Quality Report is available at: www.tampabaywater.org . The most recent Source Water Assessment performed by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection for Tampa Bay Water facilities was in 2023. Potential sources of contamination were assessed by the FDEP as “low risk” and “moderate risk” for groundwater sources and “high risk” near Tampa Bay Water’s surface water intakes. The classification is for source waters and does not apply to the finished water delivered to member governments. A multi-step, advanced treatment process is used at Tampa Bay Water’s Regional Surface Water Treatment Plant to ensure clean water for members and their customers. The most recent Source Water Assessment performed by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection for the City of New Port Richey’s water system was in 2023. The assessment was conducted to provide information about any potential sources of contamination in our wells. There is one low level potential source of contamination identified for this system. Both assessment results are available on the FDEP Source Water Assessment and Protection Program website at:  https://prodapps.dep.state.fl.us/swapp

We are pleased to report that our drinking water meets all federal and state requirements.

If you have any questions about this report or concerning your water utility, please contact Mr. Greg Wikholm at (727)-841-4570.

The City of New Port Richey routinely monitors for contaminants in your drinking water according to Federal and State laws, rules, and regulations.  Except where indicated otherwise, this report is based on the results of our monitoring for the period of January 1, 2023, to December 31, 2023.  Data obtained before January 1, 2023 and presented in this report are from the most recent testing done in accordance with the laws, rules, and regulations.

In the table below, you may find unfamiliar terms and abbreviations.  To help you better understand these terms we've provided the following definitions:

• Maximum Contaminant Level or MCL: The highest level of a contaminant that is allowed in drinking water.  MCLs are set as close to the MCLGs as feasible using the best available treatment technology.
• Maximum Contaminant Level Goal or MCLG: The level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no known or expected risk to health.  MCLGs allow for a margin of safety.
•  Action Level (AL):  The concentration of a contaminant which, if exceeded, triggers treatment or other requirements that a water system must follow.
•  Maximum Residual Disinfectant Level or MRDL; The highest level of a disinfectant allowed in drinking water. There is evidence that addition of a disinfectant is necessary for control of microbial contaminants.
•  Maximum Residual Disinfectant Level Goal or MRDLG; The level of a disinfectant below which there is no known or expected risk to health. MRDLG’s do not reflect the benefits of the use of disinfectants to control microbial contamination.
•  “ND” Indicates that the compound was analyzed for but not detected.
• “I” The reported value is between the laboratory method detection limit and the laboratory practical quantitation limit.
•  Parts per million (ppm) or Milligrams per liter (mg/l) – one part by weight of analyte to 1 million parts by weight of the water sample.
•  Parts per billion (ppb) or Micrograms per liter (µg/l) – one part by weight of analyte to 1 billion parts by weight of the water sample.
• Parts per trillion (ppt) or Nanograms per liter (nanograms/l) - one part by weight of analyte to 1 trillion parts by weight of the water sample.
•  Picocurie per liter (pCi/L) - measure of the radioactivity in water.

The City of New Port Richey Water System has been monitoring for unregulated contaminants (UCs) as part of a study to help the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determine the occurrence in drinking water of UCs and whether or not these contaminants need to be regulated. At present, no health standards (for example, maximum contaminant levels) have been established for UCs. If you would like information about the results, please contact Greg Wikholm at the City’s Maytum Water Treatment Plant (727) 841-4570.

There was No Detection of any of the contaminants tested for in the study*

*Note: While the results provided may show none of the 29 PFAS were detected above EPA’s Minimum Reporting Levels (MRLs) for the Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR5) study, the EPA requires the use of MRLs to ensure consistency of data quality from the many water utilities and laboratories participating in this nationwide study. Laboratories have varying abilities to analyze PFAS to levels lower than MRLs such as Practical Quantitation Limits (PQLs) and Method Detection Limits (MDLs) but the EPA does not allow this lower-level data to be uploaded to their Central Database Exchange for inclusion in the UCMR5 study. Tampa Bay Water analyzed samples to supplement the findings of the City of New Port Richey and other member utilities and reported the findings using methods other than EPA required MRLs. You can view these results at Tampa Bay Water’s website: https://www.tampabaywater.org/quality/water-quality-concerns/pfas/epa-study-results/ It is important to note that results reported below the EPA’s MRLs are primarily qualitative and not quantitative, which means a substance may have been detected but not in a reliably quantifiable amount.

There were no violations of any MCL in 2023