The City of Lima Utilities Director says that city water is safe to drink, and consumers should not be concerned.
City of Lima water users are seeing letters in their water bills about a violation the EPA requires them to report. It was one sample of water that was taken from a faucet at a location of a water customer back in December. It was a minuscule amount of an organic compound that can form when water is sitting and not flowing through the water system.
Lima Utilities Director Mike Caprella explains, “It’s not a risk for drinking water. Again, it’s perfectly safe. We’re required to send this out because we did have an exceedance, and it was in the system where the water sat for a long period of time, that’s where these form. They don’t come out of the water treatment plant. These are formed out in the water system, and we did have one location where the sample exceeded the limit, barely exceeded the limit.”
Caprella says they haven’t seen anything exceeding limits since that one test, and they are regenerating all the reactivated carbon filters as a safeguard.
