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Through our staff’s efforts and
services, the Los Osos CSD Water Department provides
quality water to approximately 8,500 customers in the
communities of Los Osos and Baywood Park.
LOCSD Water System Uses Five Source
Wells
Water delivered to LOCSD customers
is groundwater that originates from the Los Osos Valley
Basin. The five water well sites are known as the Eighth
Street Well, Third Street Well, 10th Street Well,
Palisades Well and South Bay Well. The groundwater basin
is a collection of local drainage basins, streams and
creeks and natural percolation from rain, agriculture
and domestic use. Water is cleaned through a natural
filtration process as it trickles down through the
ground. During this process, water may also pick up
contaminants found in the soil, either natural or
man-made. Groundwater is normally very clean and is
simply disinfected to help minimize the chance of any
viral and bacterial contamination.
Each well site is equipped with on-line equipment for
operation and monitoring purposes. An alarm system is
integrated into the monitoring process to notify operators
if there is a problem at any well site or District
facility. The South Bay and Eighth Street wells have
additional filtration equipment designed to remove iron
and manganese found in these two wells to aesthetically
acceptable levels.
Water
Report, MtBE:
MTBE Remediation Site Clean (July 2006)
In August 2000 the District began sampling the 10th St.
well site on a monthly basis for MtBE upon learning that
a local water supply well in the vicinity had detected
MtBE in a water sample. MtBE is a fuel additive in
gasoline that has detrimentally impacted many water
wells throughout the state. An MtBE clean-up site
located up gradient of the well is known to be culprit
of the contamination. The 10th St. well is located
within 1500 feet of the clean up site. Since sampling
begain in August 2000 all laboratory test data indicate
non-detect for MtBE. After 3 years of active operations
for remediation of the MtBE site – the work is complete.
Future testing for MtBE will be in accordance with
California Safe Drinking Water Act requirement for
testing regulated Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC). Next
sampling for MtBE will be performed on a triennial basis
beginning in September 2008.
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