Debbie Ostrander

Clearwell aeration was one of the options the City considered. The improvements they made in distribution operations and tweaks at the WTP have gone a long way. The last sample over 80 ppb was 9 months ago. They just finished replacing filter media with GAC instead of anthracite and this has had an even bigger impact removing precursors. Waiting for sample results from the lab for August TTHM's but to give you an idea of the GAC impact, TOC removal in August was 8.5 ppm raw to 1.1 ppm treated. Prior they were removing around 40-60 %, now 87%. We expect compliance will be achieved this month. Stephen Busch, P.E. MDEQ Lansing District Coordinator Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance Lansing and Jackson District Supervisor 517-643-2314 [email protected]

Hey Steve. | just listened to a presentation on post treatment aeration techniques to remove TTHMs. It made me wonder about Flint. Has that been discussed at all for them? The professor talked about aeration in storage tanks and in in-line diffused aeration. He ended by saying they are looking for a small scale field study, which this probably wouldn't be, but if you're interested at all! can get you the slides and the presenter's contact info. Debbie Sent from my iPhone xxxEND_PAGE:deq03_b607_4179_4696_437 Rennaker, Joanne (DEQ)

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Would you mind sharing your slides on Toledo? fd be interested in what info you were provided. Stephen Busch, PLE. Lansing and Jackson District Supervisor Office af Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance MEO. 527-643-2314

Looks good Steve, thanks.

Debbie anc Pat, You have both asked for some slides regarding Flint for upcoming training and updates. Attached is what | have mut together, There is some additional dialog in the soeaker notes, f will be out tornorroaw {Friday} and next Tuesday set wanted to get them to you now and give you an opportunity to ask any questions or addect information frorn your outside the issue perspectives. Pat | think if you need to cut some material cut, probably the breakdown of BWA’'Ss slides 3 and 4 would rake the place ta start. Let Mike and i know if you have ary questions and we can provide additional info as needed. EPA region 5 has been dealing with a number of complaint letters submitted to the White House which we have beer helping with and there are probably too many news articles to count at this point eo thave coted not to inclucie all of 1 xxxEND_PAGE:deq17_b130_1046_1047_1 that here, but {do touch on the communication challenges with custorners and the media in trying to separate the issues and relay the actual potential for threat to public health, Water rate charges have also been a challenge for the City and may come up but that should really be left to the City to explain where their rate generated revenues are being expended. Stephen Busch, PE. Lansing and Jackson District Supervisor Office of Brinking Water and Municipal Assistance MDEQ 517-643-2314

{haven't forgotten about this, | will try and mut together a coule slides about their TTHM and BWA issues. Stephen Busch, PE. Lansing and Jackson District Supervisar Office of Drinking Water ancl Municipal Assistance MDE 517-643-2514

guess it was my deal anyway with Flint involved.

Thanks for handling it.

yes and the query behind the scene, that’s why the ? | did lop off a few from 2015 since it was a start date, not arange. but not that many.

Thank you for the excellent customer service. I really appreciate your efforts and willingness to drop what you were working on to answer this question from department management. Richard Sent using OWA for iPhone

Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 11:10:44 AM Thank you for the excellent customer service. I really appreciate your efforts and willingness to drop what you were working on to answer this question from department management. Richard Sent using OWA for iPhone

Yas. ididn’t spend any thre looking at what the violations were for, since you were already responding te Richard. | generated ft frarn one of the queries in SDWIS standard reports. Were you working off of the report Kris has created?

Looks like the total is more than what | came up with’? | think the goal is to show whoever is asking that Flint is just a blip in comparison.

Here's what E finally came un with.

326 supplies with violations in’13 & ‘14 Flint has 5 violations in those 2 yrs - TTHM MCLs at 2 sites & 2 bacti MCLs (1 with e.coli that counts as 2)

Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 10:58:09 AM 326 supplies with violations in 13 & ‘14 Flint has 5 violations in those 2 yrs - TTHM MCLs at 2 sites & 2 bacti MCLs (1 with e.coli that counts as 2)

Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 10:58:10 AM 326 supplies with violations in 13 & ‘14 Flint has 5 violations in those 2 yrs - TTHM MCLs at 2 sites & 2 bacti MCLs (1 with e.coli that counts as 2)

For the majority yes, an E.coli MCL counts as 2. | will work on your ofher questions. Adam

Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 10:22:28 AM Do I understand that the multiple violations are probably all monitoring violations? If so, I won't worry about lumping them together. Is there a way to separate out the number of systems that had these 1200 violations? At the very least we need to be able to show how Flint fits in - what are there numbers over those two years? Sent using OWA for iPhone

Do | understand that the multiple violations are probably all monitoring violations? If so, I won't worry about lumping them together. Is there a way to separate out the number of systems that had these 1200 violations? At the very least we need to be able to show how Flint fits in - what are there numbers over those two years? Sent using OWA for iPhone

So far it shows 1110 violations for calendar 13 & ‘14. 200 are MCL, which leaves 910 other violations. However, there are many violations we would count as 1 that SDWIS counts as more, ie. a system fails to collect DBP — that is 2 or more violations. A VOC MV counts as 20 violations in SDWIS, etc. What would you like to do? Adam

So far it shows 1110 violations for calendar 13 & ‘14. 200 are MCL, which leaves 910 other violations. However, there are many violations we would count as 1 that SOWIS counts as more, ie. a system fails to collect DBP — that is 2 or more violations. AVOC MV counts as 20 violations in SDWIS, etc. What would you like to do? Adam

Hi Steve. | have put together a session for the small system training about several of the drinking water issues that have been in the news this year. We touched on it briefly a few weeks ago, and | don’t know if you and Mark have discussed it any further. | would appreciate it if you could provide me with either PowerPoint slides about the Flint situation, or a synopsis of the issues that | can put into slides. The other topics I’ve covered are the Toledo algal bloom, the Charleston, West Virginia MCHM river contamination, and the Louisiana Naegleria fowleri contamination. These 3 were discussed at the Cincinnati training | was at last fall, so | used my notes to put those together. | will need to have the slides done by April 10 so the booklets will be done on time, so if you could have either slides to me by then, or the data to me the week before (so | have time to put it into slides), I’d appreciate it. If this is not doable, please let me know and | will work something else out. Thanks much, Delbie Debbie Smith Ostrander Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance Kalamazoo District Office P:269-491-4536 F:269-567-3555 xxxEND_PAGE:deq17_b434_2077_2077_1

I'll be back in the office tomorrow morning if you still need anything. Sent from my iPhone