Pasco County Utilities – West Pasco
Water System
PWS ID # 6511361
We're pleased to present to you this year's
Annual Water Quality Report. This report is designed to
inform you about the quality water and services we deliver
to you every day. Our constant goal is to provide you with
a safe and dependable supply of drinking water. We want
you to understand the efforts we make to continually improve
the water treatment process and protect our water resources.
We are committed to ensuring the quality of your water.
Our water source is currently ground water from a number
of deep wells located in various well fields throughout
the western part of Pasco County. The wells draw from the
Floridan Aquifer. The West Pasco Water System supplies
an estimated 5% of the water, while Tampa Bay Water, a
regional water supplier of which Pasco County is a member,
augments an estimated 95%. The water is treated with chlorine
as a disinfectant and caustic soda for corrosion controls.
Sample results that follow are representative of both the
Pasco County and Tampa Bay Water supplies.
Pasco County routinely monitors for contaminants
in our 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 1st to December 31st 2004. As authorized
and approved by EPA, the State has reduced monitoring requirements
for certain contaminants to less often than once per year
because the concentrations of these contaminants are not
expected to vary significantly from year to year. Since
certain parameters are only required to be sampled once
every 3 years, some of our data [e.g., for organic contaminants],
though representative, is more than one year old.
Azura filling process removes chlorine and
sediment, changes the ionic makeup, kills any bacteria,
removes impurities down to 3 parts per million and is processed
with ozone at one part per million through our 15,000 gallon
tanks to remove all tastes & odor resulting in a two
year shelf life. Our bottling is done in a clean and sterile
facility with the utilization of Submicronic Filters to
assure that we package totally pure water.
In addition to FDA's extensive regulatory requirements,
the bottled water industry is subject to state regulatory
requirements as well. A significant responsibility of the
states is inspecting, sampling, analyzing and approving
sources of water. Under the federal GMPs, only approved
sources of water can be used to supply a bottling plant.
Another area in which some states have important responsibilities
that complement federal regulation is the certification
of testing laboratories. As with any food establishment,
the states perform unannounced spot inspections. Some states
perform annual inspections as well.
Bottled water is fully regulated at
the federal, state and industry levels. There are extensive
and specific FDA requirements that must be met. Failure
to comply will subject the manufacturer and/or product
to regulatory action. Further, there are state requirements
that must be met as well as self-imposed industry requirements.
