This month on “Wonderful Water,” join 97.9 The Hill’s Andrew Stuckey for a conversation with OWASA Executive Director Todd Taylor and Mary Tiger, OWASA’s Director of Community Engagement, about water quality, PFAS, and the steps being taken to ensure our community’s continued access to clean water.
As outlined in public statements — such as the one published in Chapelboro’s “Viewpoints” series — and through official OWASA channels and pages like “PFAS & Your Water: Drinking Water Monitoring & Treatment,” OWASA’s stance, action plan and path forward when it comes to PFAS is clear.
“Addressing PFAS is very complicated,” said Todd Taylor, OWASA executive director. “It’s difficult to identify the sources, because they’re in many of the products we use every day, and the current testing methods are pretty limited. … This dynamic environment and the financial impact of these investments create challenges for making decisions. So, OWASA is looking to create a structured approach to decision making in all this chaos that reflects the values of the community we serve.”
According to Taylor, OWASA began monitoring levels in 2018, and regularly takes samples from across the entire water system to further analyze trends and changes across the board.
Amidst taking conversations on the road to boards and committees, OWASA is seeking feedback on its PFAS policy and “guiding principles,” as outlined by Taylor in recent statements:
We are asking you to review and comment on these draft guiding principles before they are finalized and used to steer our decisions on managing PFAS.
We are inviting this feedback to ensure these principles match the values held by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community, and to identify anything that that should be added to strengthen or expand the framework.
How to provide feedback:
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- Online Survey: Click this link to provide feedback online. tinyurl.com/OWASApfas
- Participate in Upcoming Meetings: Join us in-person at the Drakeford Complex in Multipurpose Room A on October 6 at 6 p.m.
- Request a Presentation or Discussion: Reach out to OWASA at info@owasa.org if you would like a presentation and discussion for your group or neighborhood.
- Email Us: Send your input directly to us at info@owasa.org
OWASA’s Mary Tiger, 97.9 The Hill’s Andrew Stuckey, and OWASA’s Todd Taylor
You can listen 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.
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