This month on “Wonderful Water,” join 97.9 The Hill’s Brighton McConnell for a conversation with Monica Dodson, OWASA water supply and treatment manager, about the most recent annual OWASA water quality report card, the metrics used to ensure the continued quality service OWASA customers expect stays on tap and how PFAS are being monitored and reported by OWASA — a topic discussed at length on OWASA’s website.
OWASA produces the annual water quality report card — available to read in-depth here — to communicate with customers about water quality and other information on how OWASA stores, treats, and delivers high-quality drinking water to customers. The report card is an opportunity to provide data on varying water quality parameters as well as showcasing what OWASA’s Team has been working on over the past year. The report covers the 2021 calendar year, where OWASA met all state and federal regulatory standards for drinking water.
OWASA once again met or surpassed all state and federal regulations during the 2021 calendar year. Learn more in our annual water quality report card now available in English and Spanish! https://t.co/1rohZkwn4l
— Orange Water & Sewer (@OWASA_NC) June 16, 2022
According to Dodson, for over 20 years OWASA has maintained the same commitment to quality, and produced results to match. But the water quality report card isn’t just about results and metrics, it also provides
“We use the water quality report card as a chance to try to catch the community up on anything they might have missed in the past year,” said Dodson. “… We have a dedicated team of folks working really hard to ensure we deliver high-quality drinking water to our cusomters. The job duties include a lot of sampling and testing that we carry out internally … We take over 90 samples each month from different locations across the service area — we want to make sure the water quality is being maintained to all of our customers, regardless of how far they are away from the plant.”
You can listen below to the full conversation below, and visit the Wonderful Water page here for more interviews and stories about the work OWASA does in our community.
Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents use roughly 7 million gallons of water a day, and “Wonderful Water” is a monthly conversation sponsored by the Orange Water and Sewer Authority highlighting its work to keep our community growing and water flowing.
