FOUR MORE WILMOT WELL SUPPLY SYSTEMS

The Foxboro Water Supply System consists of three wells named FG1, FG2A and FG4. Again it would be nice to know what happened to FG2, and FG3 presuming they existed at one time. I believe that these wells are located just west of Kitchener within Wilmot Township. While the raw water is clear of E.Coli bacteria there are low numbers of Total Coliforms in the raw water. Although there were no repairs or equipment replacements, wells FG2A and FG4 were offline for two weeks in 2020. I expect that that short time duration may have been for routine maintenanace and or cleaning although again no clarification is provided. Turbidity and chlorine levels are well within the normal ranges. Sodium levels are low as are both Nitrate and Nitrite levels. Solvent and herbicide results are blessed/tainted with high Method Detection Limits (MDL) like so many other Region of Waterloo wells. These results by the way are all from 2018 which is disappointing. Glyphosate MDLs are also at 25 parts per billion (ppb.). No results for HAAs or THMs are given. ..................................................................................................................... The New Dundee Water System consists of wells ND4 and ND5. No mention of any ND1-3. The raw water had zero E.Coli present and one Total Coliform only. Turbidity and chlorine levels are normal and Sodium is very low, even slightly lower than the previous Foxboro System. Nitrates unfortunately are much higher although below the provincial criteria. Solvent and herbicide results are from 2018 testing and are plagued with far too many MDLs greater than 1 ppb. with Glyphosate's MDL being an extraordinary 25 ppb. Haloacetic Acids (HAA) and Trihalomethanes (THM) results unfortunately are not given in this report. ....................................................................................................................... The New Hamburg /Baden Water System consists of wells NH3 and NH4. (NH1 & 2???). Now this absolutely is not good news. There were no repairs or equipment replacement in 2020 yet well NH3 was offline for 33 weeks and NH4 for 18 weeks. Why the hell were these wells offline for so long in growing communities? No explanation/clarification is given! This is NOT good water reporting! E.Coli detections in the raw water were zero although there were 6 Total Coliform detections out of 54 samples taken. Normal chlorine treatment did its job in disinfecting the raw water of low levels of bacteria. Turbidity and chlorine levels were normal. Sodium levels are extremely low, probably the lowest of anywhere in the Region of Waterloo. Nitrates and Nitrite levels are both very low. Solvents and herbicides suffer from the same high MDLs as other wells in the Region including a MDL of 25 ppb. for Glyphosate (Roundup). HAAs and THM results are not provided in this report. The test results are from 2018 versus from last year (2020). .................................................................................................................... The Shingletown Well System consists of wells K50 and K51. Each has their own separate report. The water from both these wells can be directed towards different towns and areas including New Hamburg/Baden, Mannheim and the Mannheim Reservoir and Kitchener Distribution System. This explains how the New Hamburg/Baden System survived the shutdown of their two wells for so many weeks last year. Well K50 had excellent low (Absent) bacteria results last year and it's Turbidity was low although chlorine levels were occasionally on the high side which seems odd under the circumstances. Sodium levels are very low relative to the rest of the Region of Waterloo whereas Nitrate levels are on the high side relatively although below the criteria. Nitrites are excellent. Solvents and herbicides share the high MDLs common throughout the Region including Glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup) at 25 ppb. HAAs and THM results were not given. Solvent and herbicide results are all from 2018. .................................................................................................................... Well K51 from the Shingletown System also had excellent (zero) bacteria results with low Turbidity (murkiness) although occasionally high chlorine levels. Odd again. Sodium levels are very low as is Nitrate levels with Nitrite levels a little higher. Hmm do we have a typo here in the report? Most of these reports have Nitrates listed first and Nitrites second. This report is just the opposite. So which one of the two is actually the higher result???? Solvent and herbicide results are equally as bad as all the others in the Region due to high Method Detection Limits (MDL) with Glyphosate (Roundup) being the worst of the worst at a MDL of 25 ppb.The test results are also from 2018 which makes timely supervision of water changes impossible. HAAs and THM results are also not included here.