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Drinking water owner and operator fined $21,000 for Safe Drinking Water violations

Drinking water owner and operator fined $21,000 for Safe Drinking Water violations

The convictions are for failing to: Comply with a ministry order by failing to measure the rate of flow through the chlorine residual analyzer daily and to record this information in the water treatment plant logbook, operate the system’s chlorine analyzer in accordance with prescribed standards, by failing to ensure a qualified person took appropriate action when there was good reason to believe that the equipment was malfunctioning, keep records of drinking water tests for at least two years, specifically continuous monitoring data for free chlorine residual at the system