Water System Update

It has been a long day, so I’ll keep this update brief:

Our main storage tank has been cleaned and our well side plumbing has been rebuilt. We activated the wells at 9PM and then began pressurizing the system.  By about 9:45PM we had reached our normal maximum pressure and the booster pumps successfully shut down.  Our 24 hour cut officially lasted a bit over 12 hours, and we kept pressure up as long as we could this morning.

• As noted in the mailing, we’re under a boil water notice until cleared by the state labs. 
• The testing sample will not be taken until Monday.  It will take about 2 days for results, so we  expect the order to be lifted on or after Wednesday.
• We refilled the storage tank partially (9k out of 25k) using water trucked in from Burlington’s water system.  That system has quite high chlorination compared to ours.  We usually run about 0.8ppm which is 4 times the minimum.  This batch from Burlington was tested at 2.8ppm which is a bit more than 3x what we normally run at.  Most people will smell the odor of chlorine at about 2.0ppm, so expect a bit of odor while this tank mixes with our well water.
• We intend on doing a water system flush some time after the sample is taken on Monday.

Thanks for your patience,

-Ops